Actually, I would say that "expecting" is a near word to define what I feel about the third party plugins development.

As people said that they had interest on this, we did everything that we could in the middle of development :

1) I will upload soon the desktop build of canola (really our build we don't develop inside scratchbox) so people will be able to test plugins and themes faster than copying to device etc

2) There's already 2 published tutorials (one from gustavo other from Morpheuz and Caio) that shows the very basic model and then a simple " presentantion" application made inside canola

3) We are releasing source code : youtube plugin source code is available, upnp will also be open source etc.

So yes, I do kind of expect, but I also do have a fear because we are not open source, but at least as developers / designers we are doing our best to provide everything for those interested. So I hope that some people get excited to do that, but I will not be surprised if this does not happen at all : /

But for sure this open the opportunity at least to those python lovers with special needs out there to fast prototype a control / client for any protocol using canola as ui.

Let's see...

(I'm also trying to find students to do this, but upnp has shown that maybe is not always a good idea)