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MWKN Weekly News: 7 January 2013


Hildon Foundation open letter and Jolla's response

Last week, the Hildon Foundation sent an open letter to Jolla requesting cooperation and financial assistance with maemo.org:
We would welcome discussion about a relationship between our organizations… If anything, we would like to form a friendship. If Jolla would be willing to become a sponsor and aid us in promoting the open source software aspects of Jolla and Sailfish — or, possibly even foot the bill — we would offer valuable community support to Jolla. In fact, we see a huge possibility of the Hildon Foundation becoming a part of the Jolla ecosystem or Sailfish Alliance itself.
Jolla replied in comments, "We can talk on a regular basis and we can form a friendship. But talking and claiming friendship is easy – however friendship is also about doing activities together to keep things alive – and sometimes take part in your friend’s crazy ideas. And to be honest and straightforward with advice from one another."

That would seem to put financial sponsorship and official coordination off the table. Which, although disappointing, is not particularly surprising given that no startups have money to throw at things not directly related to their core business and revenue generation. It also feels like maemo.org needs to go through a period of adjustment to manage budgets - and services - more carefully (or at least frugally).
Read more (hildonfoundation.org)
Read more (hildonfoundation.org)


Back from holiday

On behalf of the MWKN team, I'd like to apologize for the unannounced absence of MWKN over the holidays. Busy schedules and real life responsibilities take their toll. The regularly weekly schedule will be resumed from this issue forward.



In this edition...
  1. Front Page
    • Hildon Foundation open letter and Jolla's response
    • Back from holiday
  2. Applications
    • How to on setting up Tor for Harmattan
  3. Development
    • Developers of Qt apps have just today left to register for a BlackBerry 10 Dev Alpha
    • Fremantle Community SSU needs Gtk+ developers
    • Problems with vcs.maemo.org SSL certificate affects developers using Garage's version control
    • Former Harmattan engineers looking at helping with Jolla & Mer
  4. Community
    • maemo.org migration issues
    • Community Coding Competition still attempting to track down two missing devices
    • Hildon Foundation Board minutes for meeting on December 19th, 2012
  5. Devices
    • Nemo Mobile status update and project restructuring
  6. Announcements
    • LINKer allows file shortcuts on Harmattan home view
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