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Re: Maemo Advocacy

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 528602)

I asked the same question earlier. No clue.

Not really conducive to free, open source community spirit building is it now? :)

Re: Maemo Advocacy

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Originally Posted by silvermountain (Post 528603)

Not really conducive to free, open source community spirit building is it now? :)

At the moment, it looks like no.

Re: Maemo Advocacy

Wow, THAT was quick: my request for invitation to the 2010 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit was accepted within minutes. Maybe it's not as exclusive as they want us to think it is. :D

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/co...details&did=26

Re: Maemo Advocacy

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 528607)

is the food free?

Re: Maemo Advocacy

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Originally Posted by silvermountain (Post 528610)

is the food free?

No clue. My main concern is the flight...

Re: Maemo Advocacy

My first blog article on the subject: http://tabulacrypticum.wordpress.com...here-do-we-go/

EDIT: Guber99, unlike this place, I tolerate zero trolling. You are now officially blog spam. Have a nice day.

Re: Maemo Advocacy

I tried to register meemo.org yesterday right after the announcement but it wasn't available. I thought I would first grab (before some evil eyes) it and redirect it to here.

Anyways, currently the site is under construction.... And it is setup in a different language that I can't read....

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This is what I encounter around meego.com after registering:

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Access Denied
You are not authorized to access this page.

Not a good start, and hopefully not a sign of anything... (said mainly in jest... I think...)

Re: Maemo Advocacy

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Originally Posted by silvermountain (Post 528592)

Hm, why is there only a Meego.com site and no meego.org ?

Because it turns out Meego.org is already owned by some Chinaman. :) That's why it's .com in the first place.

Re: Maemo Advocacy

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Originally Posted by Texrat (Post 527834)

Well...

I was expecting something like today's Moblin+Maemo announcement but I had not really prepared myself for what that might mean to me personally. After all, my council term is coming due and I'd plan to run again to provide transition and bring some of my Maemo-oriented projects to conclusion.

Now, of course, the bulk of that work is pointless.

The good news is that MeeGo offers us an opportunity to leave some baggage behind and build something new with lessons learned. The bad news (besides the silly name IMO) is uncertainty. From a purely personal standpoint, that is: do I have any relevance in the MeeGo world?

I came into this community as a Nokia employee frustrated at the huge gap between the company and all of you. My number one goal was to build bridges. I didn't always succeed as i would have liked to and occasionally even worked against myself but I'd like to think my efforts provided some overall benefit.

With regards to MeeGo... do any of us carry over our legacies of leadership? In some cases it may be good to start from scratch, but it helps leaders and facilitators to have a clear path and decent support. That of course translates to community projects as well. What becomes of projects like Mer, for instance?

I am faced with far too many questions yet unanswered to know what *I* am to make of this. I'm sure the merger will benefit Nokia and Intel-- I just don't know what it will mean to many of the people.

Hopefully my post wedding jitters are for nothing...

There are two reactions we can take towards this kind of change:
- feel satisfied at what we did accomplish, even if we didn't get every "i" dotted and "t" crossed, and move forward, or
- hunker to be a part of the next change, guns still warm from the last fight, but altogether a different shot because of lessons we learned before - in effect, still in the fight but recognizing the change.

Whichever of these you decide Texrat, neither should be done with any nervousness that you've not greatly impacted Nokia, or the many persons that have crossed paths here.

Advocacy, even on the level that you (and many others) have done here needed to be done. Every community has these change agents, and these change agents are always temporary in state, until a new change is needed. Not every agent can survive multiple changes, but new change agents arise - hopefully having learned from those before.

I've been telling folks over the past few days: those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it; and those that do study it and attempt to rehash it, usually don't make the mistakes of the former. Its to Meego's benefit to rely on you and others who have been here very long, who've made positive and substantial inroads towards what is becoming a new way of thinking about product development, marketing, testing, and living with computing devices.

This is just one of many changes that happens around us. Jitters happen with these changes, but life on the other side of the broom is what we make it, not just what we've been used to.

Don't be surprised if a few companies come for you, your background inside and outside of Nokia is needed in several industries.