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?