[Council] 2014-05-13 Meeting Minutes
 

Meeting held on FreeNode, channel #maemo-meeting (logs)

Attending: Ruediger Schiller (chem|st), Jussi Ohenoja (juiceme).


Absent:

Summary of topics (ordered by discussion):
- Discussion on arranging the next Maemo Council election
- Discussion on maemo.gitorious.org


Topic (Discussion on arranging the next Maemo Counco election):

• Juiceme has made the announcement of the election.
• Woody has been very helpful and provided juiceme assistance on running the voting machine.
• Juiceme has not yet had time to create a test election.

Topic (Discussion on maemo.gitorious.org):

• HiFo was contacted by Nokia/Microsoft about the use of maemo.gitorious.org to the Maemo community and if it needs to be kept alive in this way as they want to discontinue the contract with gitorious.org.
• Chem|st approached Gitorious' staff about possible solutions working out for us and Techstaff is looking into proper backups of these gits and hosting them our own.

Action Items:

• N/A

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Re: [Council] 2014-05-13 Meeting Minutes
 

whilst contacting about gitorious its a shame they can't also bring up remaining closed source stock apps like gallery and contacts for example.

Re: [Council] 2014-05-13 Meeting Minutes
 

I myself believe it is waste of time, but what about HiFo/CC/Verein asking Nokia/MS about their thoughts for future of Harmattan and availability of repos (e.g. SDK?) and firmware and so on ...
(besides the need of work to be handled on community side)

Re: [Council] 2014-05-13 Meeting Minutes
 

They are not willing to give us any sort of licensing to redistribute their binaries, not even those holding Nokia licenses only.

For the sources applies the same I guess but I will bring that up again.

Re: [Council] 2014-05-13 Meeting Minutes
 

harmatten is supposed to be supported till 2015 na ? Maybe they consider something but they wont at the end its all buisness

Re: [Council] 2014-05-13 Meeting Minutes
 

That includes Fremantle stuff and things that Nokia are no longer hosting that are still needed by the community?

Re: [Council] 2014-05-13 Meeting Minutes
 

...We are not allowed to host/have/share Nokia binaries? We can't provide firmwares? Fine.

So, if (MS) Nokia is the only subject allowed to share this kind of contents, they should provide a support page for our devices N770, N800, N810, N900.

I'm not talking about 1 million of products, and sincerely i really can't see why there should still exist a support page for a Nokia N70 from 2005 (http://www.nokia.com/it-it/supporto/prodotti/n70/) and not a page for the N810.
I don't think that host the related files would need a big effort from both the economical and the technical point of view of the problem.

This situation must be defined once and for all.

Or ...should i suppose that (MS) Nokia needs to receive an email with a support request from ALL the owners of a Maemo device just to check how many of us are still using these devices?