MeeGo community working group status update
Last week, a group of Intel and Nokia employees - including Quim Gil and Tero Kojo - met in the US with their Intel counterparts (Dawn Foster and Michael Shaver) to formalise the creation of MeeGo's Community Working Group. The group is here to help with the web infrastructure and online communication of any community team. We will help the TSG organizing and handling the bi-weekly IRC meetings, to start asap with the first one. The setting initially discussed includes a public agenda, a process to propose topics and a moderated IRC channel with Imad and Valtteri with writing permissions, Dawn posting questions received via PM and Quim playing with the bot in order to generate nice meeting minutes automagically. The newly formed group is forging ahead, hopefully with enough consensus building in these initial stages to meet the lofty goals of MeeGo being an open system and community. One hopes the "moderated IRC channel" is not to enforce a barrier between the community and the Technical Steering Group; and that concrete work will be undertaken by the TSG in the open. It would be a shame if the first steps of MeeGo were dominated by closed-door meetings between select employees of the two corporate sponsors.