Maemo Community - Who, What, Why and How

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Presentation at Bossa Conference 2009, in Porto de Galinhas

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Maemo Communitywho, what, why and how

Hi!My name is Eduardo Lima, nice to meet you

You can call me Etrunko

Work for INdT

Member of the first Maemo Community Council

Involved with Maemo since 2005

Currently maitain the EFL stack for Maemo

DisclaimerI'm wearing my maemo.org t-shirt

What is Maemo?First, a bit of history

May 2005 - The beginning

Nokia announces the 770 Internet Tablet

maemo.org goes online

source: http://web.archive.org

Still in 2005

May – [ANN]: Developer device program

July to August – New services: wiki, planet, svn

August – Internet Tablet Talk goes online

November – 770 finally available for sale

2006: Try to Do it right

April – [ANN]: Maemo 2.0 roadmap

May – Garage for project hosting

July – Maemo 2.0 and Sardine/Herring

December – Nokia hires Quim Gil

2007: Evolution

January – [ANN]: Nokia N800 and Maemo 3.0

February – Download section

May – New website

November – Nokia N810 and Maemo 4.0

released

source: http://web.archive.org

2008: Maemo Reloaded

January – Nokia acquires Trolltech

May – LinuxTag [ANN]: Fremantle and Harmattan

June – Brainstorm / 100 days / 2010 Agenda

June – Maemo 4.1 released

September – Maemo Summit

What is Maemo?Now you know it

In summary

Maemo is the software platform

Running on the internet tablet devices

Maintained by Maemo Software at Nokia

Delivered to the Maemo Community

Formed by users, developers and enthusiasts

Maemo CommunityLet me introduce you some guys

Maemo 'Employees'

Niels Breet – Webmaster

Dave Neary – Docmaster

Andre Klapper/Karsten Bräckelmann –

Bugmasters

Jeremiah Foster – Debmaster

Maemo Community Council

Ryan Abel (GeneralAntilles)

Andrew Flegg (Jaffa)

Tim Samoff (timsamoff)

Simon Pickering (lardman)

Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)

The Council

Community representatives

Elected every six months by the community

Distill community issues and bring to Nokia

Internet Tablet Talk

Where the users meet

21,569 members

24,920 threads

265,500 posts

http://internettablettalk.com

Right nowWhat's going on?

What else?

Community council elections

Website redesign

Integrating Internet Tablet Talk to maemo.org

The FutureHere we go again

Plans for 2010

Best community for mobile Linux innovation

Release early, release often

One place to track feedback

Co-production of official & community

documentation

Community localization

Maemo variants - Happening

Getting InvolvedLet's rock!

But how?

Bring your app/library to Maemo

Commit to a task for a sprint

Join the mailing lists

IRC channels

Reporting bugs

Questions?¿¿¿

Thank You!eduardo.lima@openbossa.orghttp://etrunko.blogspot.com