ext Frantisek Dufka wrote: > Quim Gil wrote: >> I'm a bit surprised about the little discussion generated by our call to >> support cool projects. >> >> Was the call so casual that it ended up being unclear? >> > > Well, to me it is a bit unclear how Nokia could help to specific > projects. IMO all developers will benefit from > > - early SDK release(s) and documentation
See timeline at http://wiki.maemo.org/Task:Maemo_roadmap/Fremantle > - somewhat accurate device emulation or developer device program (with > devices reaching developer hands before end users) We are doing our best in the emulation front. Access to hardware before sales start is expensive and highly regulated. Nokia provides such access business-as-usual to certain developers, usually through commercial or research agreements with private or public organizations. Doing the same for individuals or small groups without a legal entity is something we could do in Maemo. But you see our point of working with a selected list of projects beforehand. > - in general as much information as possible preferably to everyone Sure, I don't think information to everyone is the problem. > If we get this then no special help may be needed. Then how do you explain that so many promising community projects fail in the last mile (or before)? Some developers look for more time, some projects look for certain skills, some look for more testing, more feedback, more help... >> What kind of support? Whatever those cool projects under development >> need to be stable and exciting for real users. You tell us and we will >> do our best helping you. > > Do you have anything specific on your mind? What kind of help Nokia > expects to provide in this support project? Does it include @nokia.com > developers who will help with porting specific code to newer OS? I guess > not. Why not. Surely the work wouldn't be done by the Maemo SW developers busy stabilizing Fremantle, but why not funding someone else to work on that. Don't guess, propose! -- Quim Gil marketing manager, open source Maemo Software @ Nokia _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
