I do not think the issue is criticizing developers, maemo.org or the open source concept.

The concept of Free developers, 'doing their own thing' favours diversity and creativity and does (and did for the Tablets) result in new opportunities. It is however essential that an overarching common mission and defined common objectives guide everybody involved including the 'free developers'. Everybody should work towards the same -useful- direction. In this case 'useful' should be related to the end-user, the consumer. Somebody has to buy the stuff !

It's of course up the free developers how they achieve the common objectives and goals.

Senior Members in this community (meaning the people influencing maemo.org and in or around the Nokia team) have done a great job in getting this all up and running (Maemo, ITT and more), supporting newbie’s, developing apps ( ...some media players are really great) etc. A lot has been achieved. But they should come together in what they are trying to achieve.


Some questions must be answered:

Who is in charge: Nokia or the Community ?
- Or to put it otherwise: Who are in the community?
- Please note: There is always somebody in charge in any community !
Are you trying to develop a Maemo OS, or just apps. Or: what ?
For which groups (customers) are your products to be developed ? Kids? Seniors? Office stuff ? Games ? Navigators ? Phones ? Shouldn’t there be some prioritization ?
What about control, maintenance, support of the products ? Please note: development is 20% and control / maintenance / support the other 80 % !

As a mission the Concept op the Walkaround Internet could be a nice start, I think. Should we focus on bringing together the smartphone and small notebook areas? Tablet functionality independent from transport medium (G3 / Wimax / HDSPA etc.), and independent from OS (Limo, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm). ??

I do understand that this all has to be answered in the Maemo Wiki brainstorm (2010 is more important thans the short term part !) and perhaps I should contribute. Time is a problem of course.

Abel.