Thread: Maemo Missteps, your thoughts?
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2010-06-20 , 12:16
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Originally Posted by EIPI View Post
This is exactly what puzzles me about *community* within meego.com. From what I can see, it has a very different meaning than on maemo.org.
In maemo.org the community consisted of both Nokia employees/subcontractors and everyone else (while the control of the 'product' was in the hands of Nokia, causing a vendor-user relationship).

In MeeGo, community is everyone with a 'commit bit' or role for the 'product' + everybody else who is contributing to the product + the users of the product. Even opinion and discussion is contribution to the project.

'Everybody else' can turn into having a commit bit or role if their merit warrants it.

Hence, MeeGo is more of a committer-contributor-user community.

EDIT: Important note though: It isn't all about code. Even helping the ecosystem around committers/contributors and managing this would be contribution. Kind of like HR or personell organisations. There is a fair more organisation in the 'MeeGo' community, including managers etc - see it as a virtual company where you're part of the work to bring out the product.
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Last edited by Stskeeps; 2010-06-20 at 13:09.
 

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