but if they dont.... and just assume tgey won't... how could this community (or one interested blogger) step in? where to get the "summary of activities during the last 2 weeks"?

Symbian is being made open source because of Nokia.

For other stuff that has made a difference to the open source community (some mentioned on the Wiki page)

Sofia-sip - used in Maemo (and I think symbian) also used to create freeswitch

Hildon - Ubuntu Netbook

Telepathy - Default IM in Ubuntu and possibly other distros

Qt contribution cannot be overestimated, really. Full graphical development framework with its own IDE, documentation etc. on very liberal Open Source license.
Interesting that Nokia doesn't list it on opensource contributions. Ah - this is old site, only GTK related notes and last copyright is 2007.

Interesting link!

upon further searching, i found this document, published in august 2009 (2.6.30), which lists the kernel history since 2005.

and, not surprisingly, google is a "bigger" contributor in terms of numbers of changes overall. the scalability of the kernel is one of the main pillars of their business, after all
i was just curious because they weren't listed among 2.6.27 employers.

nokia seem to contribute more to the kernel in recent times, though. the numbers since 2.6.24 (past 2 years) place them slightly ahead of google.

It's better than that, Nokia tends to skip the middle step and just do its work on open source components upstream. They also tend to favor hiring developers from these projects directly (BlueZ, Mozilla, Telepathy, etc.).

Nokia contributes a very significant amount of code, money and effort. It certainly outstrips Android's significant NIH symptoms.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...ributors&num=2

And that was way before Fremantle.

Thank you for this discussion. Yes, I should do some work on this.

Statistics based on LOC are always tricky. For instance in the Kernel we follow different rythms than the kernel releases and this is why sometimes you see Nokia in the top positions (when a product is announced and contributions are made) but not always. Also think that Maemo platform development is quite descentralized compared to e.g. Android so there are many non@nokia.com commits that come actually from Maemo funded/paid projects.

This is why "human stories" might be more illustrative, indeed.

Tracker is an interesting case. GUPnP comes to mind. And well, what about the own GTK+ half of the Linux communty is using in their desktops?

Some projects take their time until seeing the light and becoming concrete benefits for the community, like oFono for instance.

GStreamer?

I really really want to see this little myth that Nokia doesn't contribute to open source busted hard. So sick of seeing people who just don't know making these claims.

http://www.notmart.org/index.php/BlaBla/New_job I stumbled upon this a while ago..