First MeeGo Technical Steering Group (TSG) meeting: Weds, 24th March
The first public TSG meeting of MeeGo's "benevolent dictators" will be held on Wednesday, 24th March at 20:00 UTC. The meeting will be moderated by Quim Gil and Dawn Foster (Nokia and Intel's community managers, and members of the MeeGo Community Working Group), but questions will be able to be put to the participants via a "back channel". The agenda will cover: MeeGo architecture update; MeeGo release plan; Release program setup; Technical Steering Group setup; Community working group proposal; Localization working group proposal [and] Appointments
MeeGo community forums to be powered by vBulletin
After much discussion on the MeeGo mailing lists, the MeeGo forums - equivalent to talk.maemo.org - will be run on the vBulletin platform, and managed by Reggie Suplido. The decision was ultimately taken by the embryonic Community Working Group. Quim Gil said, The reasons for the decision are the proven track of vBulletin and Reggie with http://talk.maemo.org. The integration of Drupal and vBulletin fulfills the Single Sign-on requirement and looks good from a technical and resourcing point of view. The proprietary license is considered a negative aspect but not a blocker or a major factor considering the practical situation with the open source alternatives at hand. phpBB has been considered to be overall on par from a technical point of view, and the open license made it more attractive. However, there has been an uncertainty about who would be able to lead and execute the work. Calum Lind has done a great job promoting this option but due to personal reasons he can't commit right now to work on this. Somehow it was felt that we didn't have the critical mass of supporters contributors we seem to have around vBulletin. The decision to deploy closed source software was met with some grumbles, but discussion has now moved on to what the forum structure should be; which mailing lists should remain (or be moved to the forum) and the design of the forum theme.