Thread: A significant day in community governance?
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2011-08-03 , 10:40
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Originally Posted by SD69 View Post
But I would like this thread to get back to the themes in the OP rather than being a Nokia pity party or an LF criticism. I'd like people to talk about their views on maemo.org, and whether there is despite, the practical challenges, a certain "stability" to its community governance that I would hope attract developers to continue to support it because they know the rug won't be pulled out from underneath them. There is I think an advantage to doing your own thing and not have your future compromised by what's going on "behind those curtains", as you put it earlier.
The problem we have at maemo.org is hardware. The functional n900s out there will drop in number as time goes on. The CordiaTab is a great idea, but how many developers will it attract, and will it gain critical mass to sustain the numbers in this community?

If, as lbt points out,
formeego.org/com (we have both) is more grass-roots than maemo. Currently it's "owned" by Thomas, Neils and I.
any questions about governance should be settled.

And
BTW .. did I mention that Neils and I made a huge effort to make the MeeGo infra support Fremantle and Harmattan.... if that's not "continue to support maemo.org" then what is?
could solve another dilemma.

I think the maemo community could find it's home with the formeego.org (or whatever) umbrella, just as the n8x0, and n770 community remains apart of maemo.org. I appreciate that this debate was fought and lost months before I joined the site, but we have to face certain realities here (i.e. no more funding) and it saddens me to think that such a vibrant community has been splintered into various factions, and that maemo.org could fizzle out.
 

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