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Sometimes I wish Quim would still post at maemo.org... 
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2011-08-26
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Speaking as someone who came to maemo from a different dying platform, I would strongly recommend that a group of people put together mirrors of the maemo repositories, to gather together all the sources, tools, packages etc that Nokia currently host.
In the zaurus community, Sharp shut down their forums and downloads, and people had to trawl the internet for random downloads people had stashed. Then, as the community began to diminish as interest fell due to people upgrading to new devices or breaking them, individual's websites and repositories dropped off. A key member of the community had a disk failure and lost a lot of his source code, and wasn't interested in restoring it.
So hence I recommend a group of people cooperate in putting together an archive, and ensure it's spread across a few mirrored servers in case of disaster, and also to hand over in case people drop out.
In the zaurus community, Sharp shut down their forums and downloads, and people had to trawl the internet for random downloads people had stashed. Then, as the community began to diminish as interest fell due to people upgrading to new devices or breaking them, individual's websites and repositories dropped off. A key member of the community had a disk failure and lost a lot of his source code, and wasn't interested in restoring it.
So hence I recommend a group of people cooperate in putting together an archive, and ensure it's spread across a few mirrored servers in case of disaster, and also to hand over in case people drop out.
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2011-08-26
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Originally Posted by speculatrix
I like your idea but as you said
Speaking as someone who came to maemo from a different dying platform, I would strongly recommend that a group of people put together mirrors of the maemo repositories, to gather together all the sources, tools, packages etc that Nokia currently host.
In the zaurus community, Sharp shut down their forums and downloads, and people had to trawl the internet for random downloads people had stashed. Then, as the community began to diminish as interest fell due to people upgrading to new devices or breaking them, individual's websites and repositories dropped off. A key member of the community had a disk failure and lost a lot of his source code, and wasn't interested in restoring it.
So hence I recommend a group of people cooperate in putting together an archive, and ensure it's spread across a few mirrored servers in case of disaster, and also to hand over in case people drop out.
"...the community began to diminish as interest fell due to people upgrading to new devices or breaking them, individual's websites and repositories dropped off..."
You cant just force people to support outdated devices or waste time collecting garbage for an OS that is dead. Most good things are closed source anyway
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2011-08-26
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Most good things are Open Source, anyway.
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2011-08-26
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Originally Posted by qole
Just a quick opinion - I think this is the best way to go. Together we are stronger, and the Maemo community would bring a lots of activity to MeeGo forums (almost 900 users online right now @Maemo, 220 users @MeeGo).
I think the best thing the Maemo community can do over the next year and a half is to transition to the MeeGo community, although I don't particularly like the MeeGo.com forums very much, and there haven't been any third-party ITT-style forums popping up elsewhere.
The bad thing is, that the forum.meego.com bbs software isn't too inspiring. More "awesome" is needed.
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2011-08-26
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Please say, though that you'll continue to support the N900 - I have about another year to run on my current phone contract...
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2011-08-26
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Originally Posted by Stonik
It's vBullettin (why not phpBB3 which is FOSS?) so we can take - correction: Reggie can take - the forum theme and install it on meego forums and call it retromania.
Just a quick opinion - I think this is the best way to go. Together we are stronger, and the Maemo community would bring a lots of activity to MeeGo forums (almost 900 users online right now @Maemo, 220 users @MeeGo).
The bad thing is, that the forum.meego.com bbs software isn't too inspiring. More "awesome" is needed.
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2011-08-26
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I just hope that the silence from the most important people in here means that they are preparing something which they will announce us at some time 
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2011-08-26
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Originally Posted by Estel
Agree. But also most unfinished things are Open Source too.
Most good things are Open Source, anyway.
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2011-08-26
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Originally Posted by gerbick
There are many unfinished FOSS software out there, but the reason you know is due to the open nature.
Agree. But also most unfinished things are Open Source too.
Quite opposite the basic idea of FOSS, beside having a free beer, benefiting form the others work and contributing, is to have a possibility to fix and enhance the software once the original vendor drops it.
It is about of protecting of your investment. Users invest money in devices, in addition developers invest time (effort) and knowledge.
People tend to forget that.
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