I know there are websites for PHP even visual basic. But I don't know about Linux or for the N900

Basically I wanted to pay either a single or group of programmers to make an app for me, for the N900

What type off app?

Post a detailed description of the project please, and the budget you have and I am sure there are many qualified programmers here who could take up on the job. Maybe you could also find co-funders if the project is useful to anybody else

also, please write, if You're willing to "sponsor" writing an program of Your choose, to be completed with set of features *and* released under some Open license, or You want to pay for writing application, that will be closed source and copyrighted to You.

/Estel

http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_professionals

fwiw:
I'd be willing to pay for updates and improvements that would keep the Maemo base system up to date i.e. compatible to Debian Stable. That would primarily include security patches and package version updates (e.g. pulseaudio on the N900 is already heavily outdated - see the Easy Debian pulseaudio problem; the kernel will need an update sooner or later - I know that's a big one, especially with all those proprietary blobs in the system) and secondarily trying to replace proprietary components with free software alternatives of at least equal functionality.

For updating kernel in sane time (i.e, before updated version got outdated), you would need BIG budget. Really.

I don't know if it would require a big budget, but it would require an awful lot of research and testing. Since this would take a lot of time the target Debian release would have to be Wheezy, not Squeeze.

I see the following problems:
1. There are most likely some binary blobs in the kernel which aren't version independent. That alone could be a show stopper.
2. The change in the kernel version's naming convention.
3. The power draining problem introduced in 2.6.37. I'm not sure if it would even affect the N900 platform but if it does even ea working updated kernel would be useless.
4. All those closed applications in Maemo, half of them probably written in a poor static way that breaks if a version number in some remote corner of the system changes. And no chance to teach them to use the new version or to fool them so that they think they still have the old version.

It's always the same with abandoned closed systems. This is why I'd be willing to pay somebody who can solve these problems and put Maemo on more solid, truly FLOSS ground.

from what i remember, one of the council members (jeremiah) wants something similar re:maemo and debian. but i'm not the best source on this info so maybe you'd like to talk to him: talk.maemo.org/member.php?u=21209.

sulu, 100% agreed with You. That's why I told "high budget" - in case, that someone get paid to do it.

Anyway, isn't Mer/Nemo trying to achieve that, by other means?