Good morning,

One point I forget yesterday were those posts dreaming of seeing a proto device in the Summit and speculating about Yannick's "snak preview". That was funny. The only OMAP3 hardware that might appear in the hands of a Maemo SW developer is the very interesting Beagle board, and to demo really low level stuff totally uninteresting to end users but hopefully pretty cool stuff for the platform developers familiar with those components.

We are the Maemo Software team at Nokia and we deal with... software. Protos and hardware are "devices" and there are whole units dealing with them at Nokia, who decide what is said & shown where.

Yannick (head of Maemo SW Applications team) was supposed to show some progress done around productivity tools. We don't have a public name for the project and this is why I could only write "Sneak preview" with all my innocence, not even thinking that someone would make that relation with a potential proto unveilment. Sorry for the confusion.

Anyway, I just got an email saying that Yannick cannot make it to Berlin, but don't worry because Mika Kuuha will introduce the stuff from a technical level in his session on Saturday.

Then one thing about this so well written post:

Ah, so is there people concerned about this? Well, if you think about it the fear has very little ground from a project management point of view. Let me connect a collection of non-secrets to hopefully substitute your concerns with excitement:

1 - Maemo is in this mission of bringing Linux and open source to the mass market. This was the LinuxTag motto.

2 - HSPA + OMAP3 + hi-def camera support are very concrete steps on that direction.

3 - Bigger potential market goes together with bigger investment since it comes too with bigger competition, bigger pressure to have more and better products and etc. Maemo goes through those steps 4 and 5 maturizing the platform and tuning up the set of essential own applications + partnerships.

4 - A big part of the increased investment goes into hiring more developers since at the end code and pixels are essential elements of that success. Nokia is hiring a lot for Maemo. Just follow http://maemo.org/news/jobs/ or http://www.nokia.com/imaginemaemo - There is even a HHRR person helping out full time in the stand!

5 - Whatever development going to the HSPA/3G stuff doesn't compete directly with resources going to work on the issues that concern you now since the competences needed are totally different.

Hopefully all this makes sense to you. And now... time to got to OSiM and share more Fremantle plans!