America is bigger than the US. You can always host one outside the US. For example, the OpenBSD team regularly comes together in Canada for their hackathons.

Will there be press coverage about the summit?

I can think of 2 kinds of press coverage: community and regular. Community, maybe throughout the day or at the end of the day some folks from maemo.org or internettablettalk could (alone or collaborating) post on forum or frontpage about their experience / feelings, or something more in depth.

Regular journalists need to know about the summit. I've done my 2 ct in this regard contacting IT journalists I know and that was it regarding my inspiration however given this is in Germany I certainly wish a respected news outlet like derspiegel.de or heise.de writes an article about the summit.

I'm well aware of both points.

My remark was in a US-location context though.

http://linuxuk.org/node/53
http://wiki.maemo.org/Talk:Maemo_Summit_2008_recordings

HTH

Jaffa spotted this one.

Something interesting's a-cookin'. . . .

Yes, looks like its going to be very interesting if its going to generate that much hype.

Oh. Wow. He's dropping some kind of A-Bomb. I get the impression that it isn't so much a product announcement as it is a policy change? A corporate decision that will change how Nokia does things (in regards to Maemo and open source), and will shake up the industry? Hm. On the other hand, it might just be a product announcement.

EDIT: I guess it could be a product announcement and a policy change. A new product (or product line) that signals a change in the way Nokia does things? Maybe they're replacing Symbian with Maemo?

I dunno, I think a N900 announcement with a load of fremantle-related policy discussion would do it.

Buying & open sourcing Symbian for nothing? Yeah right maybe the other way around. Qt on Symbian?

..and I remember Qt2 on the Zaurus..would never have imagined Nokia picking the whole idea up into reality..

Hee hee HEE.

Hm, I might almost be disappointed by that. But I'm terrible when it comes to getting my expectations up. I always expect too much. I guess I'm terrified that the N900 will be one step forward, one step back, like the N810. Sure, it will have features X and Y, but they had to sacrifice features W and Z to make it happen... Everyone will be going "ooh" and "ahh" over the new faster processor and big pretty screen, and I'll be sadly shaking my head that they didn't bring back the two full size SD card slots of the N800, and the still-awkward placement of the USB connector. But that's me. Mr. Eeyore.