State of Maemo, Q3 2010.2

The latest post on the Maemo Community Council (of which one of your editors, Andrew Flegg, is a member) blog from Tim Samoff looks at some of the issues facing the maemo.org and the Maemo Community in the coming months and years after the MeeGo Confernce. Over the next weeks and months, some of the things the Council discussed will be further investigated within the Maemo Community. Other items of interest will just begin to happen. But, the main thing to understand is that Nokia is still very interested in supporting this community and allowing us to carry forward in exciting ways. There are still plans to sponsor the community infrastructure (website, paid employees, etc.), ideas about opening various pieces of Maemo source code that are still closed, and helping us to develop a successful community SSU. Likewise, there are still plenty of Nokia employees -- even those who have been permanently reassigned to MeeGo -- who want to continue helping us to be a world class open source software community. If you're unsure of what MeeGo means for Maemo, understand that the Maemo Community's job is not complete. We may be entering a new phase of life, but there is still more to come. There are certain to be interesting times ahead both for Maemo and mobile open source in general and the Maemo Community is still positioned to be significantly involved in the changes taking.