Discussion around Texrat's list of "Maemo Missteps"
As noted on the front page, Randall Arnold's list of "Maemo Missteps" was posted to Talk by Ryan Abel: It's a nice overview of many of the areas Nokia has fumbled and illustrates exactly how little Nokia has really learned in this market over the past 5 years (despite several statements from the likes of Ari and other claiming education). It's unfortunate that Nokia has managed to create such an amazing platform with so much promise and foster a great community, yet continually cut the community off at the knees, abandon their existing customers both in support and next generation hardware features and generally just kill off all the enthusiasm and inertia they can. As you'd expect, the discussion is interesting.
Why community testing of PR1.2 didn't repeat that done for PR1.1
Quim Gil continues his excellent job of smoothing feathers and answering questions by addressing another of Randall Arnold's missteps: why wasn't the semi-open testing of PR1.1 repeated for PR1.2? The semi-open testing for PR1.1 was an interesting experiment that was found to be less than more useful. And not because of the contributions received (very good ones) but all the context forced by this situation. The root of the problem was again to mix open source expectations with a commercial release made of open and proprietary components.
MeeGo evangelism fund
The MeeGo Community Office's budget includes scope for an "evangelism" fund, for activites which promote the MeeGo community. However, Quim Gil asks on forum.meego.com, how should it be defined and what's its role: There is a common understanding between the founders of the MeeGo project that a "MeeGo evangelism fund" will be provided to push activities to promote the MeeGo community. Nokia and Intel will pool the fund this year, and as the project grows more partners will be invited to contribute. The main item in the budget of this year is the organization of the MeeGo Conference. Other items to be considered are merchandising and travel sponsorship for community members promoting the MeeGo project in events. What else? MeeGo events box? MeeGo hackfests? ...? As with all budgets in big companies, pinning down the size of the budget sooner rather than later is necessary.