Thread: The cohesive community: from talking to doing
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2009-01-12 , 23:32
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Originally Posted by danramos View Post
I think you'll find it's about the community around Nokia's products.
Yes, the Maemo Community and how we can better our participation in open source projects in this community. That doesn't make a Nokia-bashing festival productive or appropriate.
It does seem irrelevant if you put it that way, but it probably became part of the conversation when it was pointed out that Nokia's decisions and posturing is becoming an impediment to attracting participation in open source directed at the maemo platform. It seems, from my reading, as if it turned from a rallying 'how?' to a more boggled 'how?' It seems to have had the effect of questioning whether everyone's time and efforts are going to be worthwhile. Eiffel's comments appear to strike the nail on the head with his comments. Mind you, I'm also cynical by nature and I'm very happy when I'm proven wrong--but it seems as if that doesn't often happen. How do you or anyone else respond to that?

Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Given maemo isn't really the popular platform outside of these devices yet, and these devices don't often get used with something other than maemo (drivers are a good reason, I'd suppose), I think that it might be natural to see a lot of friction in a thread like this one.
Natural or not, it's still silly and counter-productive to the point Quim started this thread for. More than anything, it illustrates exactly our problem.
I'm not sure that I agree. Can you explain the problem that this illustrates? Are you suggesting that Nokia is completely irrelevant? What can you suggest to get people more focused on the applications for maemo and less on Nokia's involvement?