Happy 7th Birthday maemo.org!
 

7 years old today, from the mailing list (thanks to MWKN on twitter for the link):

770 launched

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wow, long live, :)

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http://www.wallcoo.net/photography/F...isplay_021.JPG
:)

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Great! Congratulations Maemo.org ! :)

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Long Live Maemo Community. You are now 7 years old.

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WoW !!
It's my Birthday too :)

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I remember the time. Linux on laptops was still a somewhat tricky science (e.g. having to reboot after closing and opening the laptop lid, Ubuntu was just a toddler...) and there you had Nokia (a name nobody associated with Linux) showing a Debian flavor with a GNOMEish desktop running on a touch device that (kind of) fits in your pocket.

I was utterly impressed. Even if I knew they working on something Linux (they had hired Gullem Jover, the Debian maintainer we wanted for our little cooperative company), I never suspected anything like Maemo & the 770. But at the time all this was more or less exotic news. I was working on web projects using free CMSs, contributing to GNOME marketing and not caring much about my cheap & small mobile phone. The last thing I would have thought is that I would end up joining that team in 2007. :)

What's your story? Where were you in May 2005?

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May 2005, I was working as Qtopia Community Liaison/Manager on Qtopia for Trolltech in Brisbane, Queensland. What Qtopia started evolving into eventually became the backend declarative/QML and figured prominently in the N9. My first thought on maemo was 'wtf didn't they use Qt?' :)

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Happy Birthday & Long Live Maemo!

Thanks for everyone in this great community, love all your work :)

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in 2005 i eventually decided to put my trustworthy 7650 to rest :(
the headset connector was building up some sort of static & the keys were starting to act up randomly :mad:

it happened that the 770 was the hot new thing coming & i was very interested in it, but alas it didn't have the GSM function and was thus not available with a contract.
the fact that Wi-Fi was still very uncommon (even in homes) around where i was living made it barely available at all, as a matter of fact :rolleyes:

back then i didn't know the 1st thing about Maemo and even though i had been keeping more or less up to date with SuSE respectively openSUSE and started to have a permanent install around that time (on a 4 hard disc tower, next to 2k3 as primary :D) the idea of putting anything but Symbian on a "mobile" device (or XP on a lappy) seemed... odd at best :p

ended up taking a 7710 :o but replaced it with a 1100 before the end of the contract as it was utterly unusable :mad:

started to visit Maemo a few weeks after i got my N900 (nearly 2 years ago) but didn't post much (if at all) until about a year ago, not long after Flopocalypse

as the N900 is available again with 2 years NOKIA warranty (thus presumably new (?)) i'll continue to use it, buy a new one if the two i already have (original 2 years old and another bought end of last year (new)) should have any (hw) problem
knock knock knock :p

i wonder in how far the renewed availability of the N900 is to have an offer with a physical keyboard.
maybe we'll get a decent successor eventually? :eek:

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May 2005? Nothing special. We sold a lot of control systems with our Qt-based GUI /sw.

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Back in May 2005 I was still at school, and having bought an iPod mini recently, I was working on a Java-based podcast downloader using Gtk+ to fill it with content from Linux (archived news). I quickly realized then that Java wasn't very common on Linux Desktops (it was not GPL'd yet, and the license made it hard for distros to ship it) and hard to install with the Java-Gnome bindings, and so I began to learn Python (that project is still around today). At that time, I recently switched to the then-new Ubuntu (was using Slackware before), and was reading Planet GNOME in Blam. In fact, I still remember reading lots of postings there about the 770 (a quick search turned up this and this - my search also found something related: Nokia adopting KHTML for S60 in June of the same year). (It wasn't until early 2008 that I bought a N800 and got into Maemo app development, mostly because I was curious how well my application worked on Maemo - Mika ported gPodder in early 2007, probably after Tuomas suggested porting it to the 770 in 2006. It was even used as an example on how to port Gtk+ Desktop apps to Hildon.)

This is also interesting: maemo.org as of 2005-05-26 (Web Archive) - with the old logo and the FAQs stating how the name "Maemo" was created using pwgen ;)

Happy Birthday, Maemo! Has been great fun so far :)

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That's the year I bought my first symbian phone. The 6630. It completely changed my view of what a mobile phone could be. Up until then I'd had only dumb phones, so being able to run picodrive on the 6630 blew my mind at the time. Next phone to have that effect on me was the N900 in 2010. This amazing site and community had a lot to do with that, of course. :) Happy birthday Maemo.org!

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Back in that time I had my Siemens SX1 (running S60v1) already for a year, went into the foray of mobile offline navigation with Route66. I was also very short to quitting my then-current job (which i did a month later) that at this time involved building & testing (& partly designing) J2ME midlet / J2EE backend solution for public traffic mobile ticketing on different cellphone devices.

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Long Live TMO

On 2005 I was at my second year of Computer science and I met this chinesse guy with a 9500 communicator which at the time I had no idea what it was. Thus started my interested into mobile (nokia) handsets

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2005? It was probably a time, when Dinosaurs walked on Earth, and I was learning how to make my spear sharper. Or something like that.

Seriously though, for sure I've had no idea about linux handhelds, and so many live-shaping changes happened in my personal life since then, that it's hard/impossible to list them. Seriously, I haven't realized, that it have been so much time since Maemo start.

Happy birthday, and long live!

/Estel

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Happy Birthday, maemo.org!

And want to say a big 'Thank You' to all the helpful and friendly people I've met through the forums!

:)

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That 9500 Communicator had a UI called Hildon that was the starting point of the Hildon Application Framework users have touched between the 770 and the N900.

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qgil, you should write a book on this history. I bet thousands of people would be interested to read about the N900's and N9's legacy. Fascinating stuff :)

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The Register has a nice writeup here.

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11...lost_platform/
Enjoy ;)

Long live maemo.org!

Edit: meh, beaten by lma :p

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I know I've been almost obsessed with it ever since but most people have no idea how it all started :)

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Amazing maemo, long life.

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Happy Birthday Maemo,May Nokia resurrect you.

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Around 2005 I bought a Nokia n-gage because I was kinda obsessed with mobile gaming. I didn't know what smartphone meant, and I was completely shocked with the n-gage. I spent hours and hours downloading every. sis file I could get my hands on, and had fun joking with my friends by logging in to msn via gprs. I've had a smartphone ever since including a lame htc windows mobile (which I chose over the N91 because of it's larger screen and touch input despite not having a 3.5mm jack). Full hotswappable sd was a charm though. All my other smatphones were nokia and I would never abandon symbian for anything after the WM nightmare. A friend of mine had the marvellous 770 but anything without gsm seemed useless to me. Wifis weren't readily available outside and at home I had a laptop so I thought I had little use for an Internet Tablet. When the N900 came around though I knew that was the device for me. I didn't even look at the specs before buying, and I didn't regret it for a moment. I signed up here the same week and now I got me a N9 even though the specs disappointed me only because I wanted to remain part of this community. It's a fine phone, better than any other phone I've used but the N900 remains always in the other pocket as my internet tablet. (I used the N900 as a phone very briefly when I had two of them. All other times the N900 was doing it's duty as a 3G pocket computer)

Still now I find myself often reacting to friends' awe when their smartphone gets a new feature (like skype videocall) with a snobbish "Yeah really? The N900 could do that in 2009"

After using maemo for less that a year I switched my laptop to ubuntu and learned to love the terminal. I also changed my perception of a modern ui and the influence of maemo can be seen on my work as ui designer. Finally I dipped my toes into qt and python, debian packaging and even gtk.

Thank you maemo, the naemo community and happy birthday!

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May 2005 I was not into mobile devices at all. It took a long time to get me convinced using a mobile phone at all. I think I got (or more precise, was forced to :D ) my first mobile phone (a 2nd hand Siemens S66) in 2004.

Back then I was developing gDesklets for GNOME (http://gnomedesktop.org/node/1265). That's why I was at GUADEC 2005 in Stuttgart, where Nokia was showing the Nokia 770 to us.
It was an amazing device and we were all drooling over it. Later that year I registered for the 770 device program and got accepted to receive my 770 for 100 EUR in October 2005.

Summer 2005 was a also a special time for me as I graduated from university, co-authored a book (http://www.amazon.de/Exploring-Pytho.../dp/3935042698), and started a company.

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In may 2005 I was writing an application for our main customer to run under Linux (they're a windows shop, they sadly still are nowadays).
I used lazarus (I always liked pascal) which at the time wasn't as mature as it is now.
They're still using it 24x7.
Oh, I was also successfully running Linux on a laptop, I was been doing it for several years.

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Same here, though I was lusting after the clamshell Zaurus models at the time (but I couldn't afford to pay what seemed like a first class return flight to Japan to buy an imported one). My first mobile phone purchase was a Neo1973, but that was mostly a case of http://fsmsh.com/3053. I've bought a couple more since, primarily for use as modems, but I still hate the whole phone concept.

The irony is that back in May 2005 I had somehow ended up doing (what today would be called) devops for a bunch of SymbianOS projects, so as you can imagine Nokia was The Enemy (they even had some crazy "Platform Security" ideas back in those days too).

Still, my jaw dropped when I read the Maemo/770/Linux patent grant announcements and I immediately knew I had to have a 770 (which I ordered the day it was launched).

A GNOME, large screen, Internet-connected but non-phone handheld computer was an amazing vision, for which I will always be grateful. Pity it only lasted 3 years :-(