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Originally Posted by rcadden View Post
GeneralAntilles - as I understand it, maemo should be used when referring to the operating system itself, whereas Maemo should be used when referring to the marketing/brand being used in connection with the Nokia device product line, is that correct?
Not remotely.

Maemo is Maemo is Maemo is Maemo. As a single word it's always capitalized and refers to the platform (OS and SDK). maemo.org is never capitalized and never appears without the .org. It is the meeting place of the Maemo Community and the brand that represents said community.

We also have Maemo Devices, which is the division in Nokia that works on Maemo and the hardware that runs it, and maemo.nokia.com, which is the recently launched user-oriented marketing site for Maemo.

Originally Posted by rcadden View Post
I intend to cover things from a slightly-educated consumer level. That's where Symbian-Guru.com is written from, and that's where Maemo-Guru.com will be written from. There's no question that Nokia is working on bringing maemo, previously a geek-toy OS, to consumers, with the N810 it started, and now with the N900 it's in full-force. As it has been explained to me, Maemo.Nokia.com is the consumer-facing destination for Maemo information for consumers, whereas maemo.org is roughly equivalent to Forum Nokia, aimed squarely at developers. If this is inaccurate, please do correct me.
Nope, we have three websites:
  • maemo.org - The meeting place of the Maemo Community. It is a site for engaged users, hobby developers and anybody interested in doing a little more with Maemo than might be immediately available or apparent out-of-the-box. This is where the interesting stuff happens.
  • maemo.nokia.com - The marketing site for normal users who are only interested in using Maemo and not much more. Clean, accessible, friendly.
  • Maemo @ Forum Nokia - The site for developers (primarily commercial developers), where the API and SDK documentation will eventually be moved and the support structures for Nokia's commercial development partners will exist.

Originally Posted by rcadden View Post
To be completely honest, I'm not a big fan of the Maemo community of developers, and that's not something I've hidden in the past. With several notable exceptions, while this is an incredibly talented group of programmers/developers, there is little to no regard for the consumer experience whatsoever, including functionality, user experience, and user interface. A quick perusal of the current maemo repositories confirms that this is true today.
********. It confirms that people do not have unlimited free time and do not have the resources at hand that large commercial companies do, and it confirms that sweeping dismissals like the one you've just made hold about as much water as a rusty bucket.

If you're interested in the consumer experience, rather than dismissing the whole community out-of-hand, why don't you step up and help out? You don't have to write code to help make software better for everybody.

Originally Posted by rcadden View Post
I most certainly welcome any and all maemo community members to chime in on Maemo-Guru.com, and have fixed the contact form to make that easier. I will most certainly correct anything that needs correction, and hope that Texrat will be able to assist me in being more accurate on non-consumer-oriented details and facts. Neither of us are above admitting when we're wrong, and fixing it.
Excellent! Then here's my second one for you, that dig against MicroB is uninformed and inaccurate. MicroB is about as close to full Mozilla as you can get without shipping straight Firefox (which is undesirable no a resource-constrained mobile platform more a large variety of reasons).

I'd ask that you refrain from final, damning judgement of it until you have an opportunity to use the real thing.
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