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SD69	2010-08-22 , 21:00
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Originally Posted by Jaffa

As you say, the decision itself is straightforward. It's what, if anything, they get replaced with. A proposal along the lines of "delete X, replace Y with .... and change all instances of V in Z with W" is easier to get approval for and rolled out.

Then I propose to revise the terms of use, privacy policy and contribution guidelines by changing all instances of "Nokia" with "maemo.org".

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009N	2010-11-29 , 09:54
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Can a poster add tags to a thread? I searched the wiki but it doesn't seem to give instructions of how to do this. Thanks!

lma	2010-11-29 , 10:21
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Yes, just click the "Edit Tags" link at the bottom of the page :-) Hardly seems wiki-worthy to me.

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	nicolai	2010-11-29 , 10:30
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009N	2010-11-29 , 11:06
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Got it. Thanks!

lemmyslender	2010-12-06 , 18:39
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Just thought that this should be brought to the Councils' attention, figured this was a good as anywhere. Peter @ Instinctiv is reporting that Nokia is discouraging them from developing for Maemo.

With the addition of QT, everyone keeps talking about how easy it is to port among the different OS's (at least in theory). So, shouldn't Nokia be promoting the use of QT as a way to develop for Maemo / MeeGo / Symbian, multiple platforms instead of discouraging developing for one of them?

If Nokia is discouraging development for Maemo, how many developers will think to port their QT app to Maemo if they are being told it is EOL'd?

Perhaps I've misunderstood what Peter meant by his post, but is this something the Maemo Community Council should look into? Talk with Peter and any contacts at Nokia? I'd like to think this is a mis-understanding and not Nokia intentionally undercutting a device/os that is barely a year old.

I'll drop a link to this post in that thread as well.

So, the question is: Does the Maemo Community Council feel this is worth looking into?

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peter@instinctiv.com	2010-12-06 , 18:54
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Originally Posted by lemmyslender

Just thought that this should be brought to the Councils' attention, figured this was a good as anywhere. Peter @ Instinctiv is reporting that Nokia is discouraging them from developing for Maemo.

With the addition of QT, everyone keeps talking about how easy it is to port among the different OS's (at least in theory). So, shouldn't Nokia be promoting the use of QT as a way to develop for Maemo / MeeGo / Symbian, multiple platforms instead of discouraging developing for one of them?

If Nokia is discouraging development for Maemo, how many developers will think to port their QT app to Maemo if they are being told it is EOL'd?

Perhaps I've misunderstood what Peter meant by his post, but is this something the Maemo Community Council should look into? Talk with Peter and any contacts at Nokia? I'd like to think this is a mis-understanding and not Nokia intentionally undercutting a device/os that is barely a year old.

I'll drop a link to this post in that thread as well.

So, the question is: Does the Maemo Community Council feel this is worth looking into?

What it comes down to is that Maemo has been EOL'd and its successor, MeeGo, has yet to ship. At a minimum, what that means to us is there are no commercial prospects for us. Nokia was very forthcoming about their roadmap and I appreciate their candor. As a small company, we can't afford to be developing for platforms that we can't monetize.

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	shazosbourne	2010-12-06 , 19:13
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Did reading this http://maemo.org/community/council/s...aemo-q32010-2/ not give you hope for the future of maemo? It did me.

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	nicolai	2010-12-06 , 20:57
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Is there anything that can be said about this:

Originally Posted by CommunityCouncil

ideas about opening various pieces of Maemo source code that are still closed

I mean, for the community it is really important to open more
parts of maemo. But a single statement like that above isn't
really helpful without saying what ideas and what parts.

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	Jaffa	2010-12-07 , 19:03
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Originally Posted by lemmyslender

Just thought that this should be brought to the Councils' attention, figured this was a good as anywhere. Peter @ Instinctiv is reporting that Nokia is discouraging them from developing for Maemo.

Indeed. As we did with the licencing queue, this has been raised. The former got us an honest (albeit disappointing response) from Quim and so I hope for the same here.

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