we are maemo
 

Hi,

Nokia is gearing up towards releasing the greatly anticipated N900 device
which allows each and every one of us to use and create our dream apps in!
They have listened to the community and it has sourced the best components
it can to produce what I say is an outstanding piece of technological magic.

Our heritage is strong, this device follows from the n800 and n810 and the
good, solid, strong applications we created there will continue to be
beacons in the night.
Those same applications appear to work well on the new device and give us a
solid path towards the future.

With the new device comes new capabilities, features and interfaces and
methods of interacting we have not had before.
I am confident new apps will emerge which will make use of each and every
component and people will find ever inventive tools and hacks to make this
device shine!

We have already started on this path, there is a great amount of interest in
using the accelerometer, from things like Jaffas' Attitude to Sampo playing
with shake2control and even my own onedotzero and liqbase apps. I am
impressed by the stability and sensitivity of the hardware in all
conditions.

The Nokia Push N900 initiative has shown some of the capabilities of sending
text messages and controlling the environment with radio waves.
We have an amazing camera on the device - another missing link from the
previous devices, very warmly recieved and in full use every day!

Next month, we have the second maemo summit in Amsterdam - bigger than last
year but with the same agenda: to bring us together and connect us.
I look forward to the connections and collaborations we will make there and
hope we each fulfill our dreams.

The hardware is powerful, the operating system is slick, the community is
strong.
A chorus of voices.

We are maemo.




Gary Birkett (Maemo Council candidate)

Open source
Open heart
Open future

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I like that 'open source, open heart, open future' bit!

}:^)~

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Hmm, I see beacon but no bacon ;-) typo?

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Nah, his new buzz-word is "cigarettes"....

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actually it isnt :p

bacon is only to be consumed at the correct times.
speaking of which, will there be bacon at the summit?

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I'm filling my pants with it. I just hope I can get past TSA.

Tim

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We have bacon in Europe. Although, if it's anything like a knife, you'll be able to buy it after going past TSA (if other US airports are like SFO)

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I like how you make it sound like you're doing something new.

:D

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Is this "We are maemo" bit like "We are SPARTANS!" or is it more like "We are Marshall"?

Next we need a quick audio tagline like Intel has (I love their new commercials that end with Intel "employees" humming Intel's 5 five note theme).

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LOL :p

Can you Maemo guys sing the "Maemo theme song"?

Pam-pam-paaaaaam :D

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The Maemo theme song? You mean the sound of a Maemo device rebooting? ;-)

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Seriously though, lcuk's text would be great as a voice-over for video footage of onedotzero, Summit '08, that cool "three N900s, one table" video, some shots of the new Maemo 5 UI being demo'd....

Then post it as a response to the ourMaemo Maemo Community Marketing Call To Arms video!

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We are Devo. :cool:

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I'm new to the bacon scene, but - I'll see if I can bring some Canadian Back Bacon to MS '09

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im not sure you can import/export bacon unfortunately

i wouldnt want anyone to be arrested for pig smuggling.

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Feh, we have flite for that.

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~ $ flite "maemo, maemo, MAEMO, our hearts fly with thee. To open country, where everything is FREE!"

Ok, someone make more lyrics... Or some better ones :D

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God save our open source
Long live our open source
Maemo in name
Maemo is all we need
With Linux kernel seed
On tablet, phone, or e'en P.C.
Other code is lame.

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It should be a requirement that Council members sing it and disseminate a recording. >.>

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ok

lets keep this simple, but it has to be done with everyone to have it working.

just the very end

"we are maemo"

very short snippet in clear voice.
we can edit it together later?

send all of them to tim perhaps?

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Wait. I see what's "at the end." What goes "at the beginning"?

Also, explain exactly what the scope of the project is? Do I need to go back and read again? :p

And sure, send them to me.

Tim

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With many apologies to Irving Berlin:

...
Long live our code
source, open and free
Maemo is all we got
'cause Mer
doesn't have
what we need.
From a tablet...
to a smartphone...
all N Series....
that we own!
Maemo, oh Maemo
we shall not abandon thee
Maemo, oh Maemo
we shall not abandon thee!

um...we ain't doing O'Canada here...oops

actually I guess we are...

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Project Rewind by Tinker.it! has a few projects ready for PUSH N900.

Announced via Bright: Nokia introduceert N900 met hackerproject (Google Translate)

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(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW6HbZXI9Y0)

N900: [User pulls out her iPhone] I can assure you I mean you no harm.
User: Who are you?
N900: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is mobile computer with phone capabilities.
User: Well I can see that.
N900: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a device with N900 printed on the screen who he is.
User: Oh. Right.
N900: But on this most auspicious of nights, permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet, to suggest the character of this dramatis mobile device.
N900: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by ignorant bloggers. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now wanting 3D and eye candy. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding closed platforms and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious wireless data and voice bills!
[carves "MAEMO" into poster on wall]
N900: The only verdict is openness; an open source platform, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
[giggles]
N900: Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me Rover.
User: Are you like a featurephone?
N900: I am quite sure they will say so.

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i'm going for another long walk.
hopefully i will have some answers.

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I have thought about this now for a time and the only reasonable answer I can come up with is I do not know.

I am sure one of you guys can take this and come up with more.

We are a community, no one person can come up with everything.
we are the combination of all the good ideas and fragments and knitted together by a common ideal.
we are everything and we are nothing.

There is not 1 right way or wrong way to do anything, there are shades of grey and alternatives available, from the toolkits to the applications to the configuration.

we embrace chance and welcome difference and the end game is ever evolving.
I have said before, we come to help build the barn.

we, are maemo.

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That's cool, but... What if you did that/ Then, everyone else can come up with their own variation, so long as it's about the same length and ends with, "We are Maemo."

What do you think?

Tim