on Monday, February 15, 2010 9:00 PM Andrew Flegg <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 20:40, Ryan Abel <[email protected]> wrote:
The lack of a community-focused body in MeeGo is fairly apparent. The
project is basically entirely technically focused at the moment. The
Maemo Community seems like a good candidate to provide community
guidance.
Agreed. A lot of the tmo posts along the lines of "oh noes, we've been
taken over by Intel" miss the fact that a single forum of
talk.maemo.org seems to be much larger than the Moblin community.
I think what people have noticed is that Moblin seems not to have much place
for the user/enthusiast element of community. If you take those people out
of Maemo, it's a much smaller community. I think the 'Oh Teh Noes' are
coming from people who have struggled to feel at home in a mixed dev-user
community, and are anxious that they will have to start over justifying
their place in the community with a bunch of people who don't seem to
expect/want users and enthusiasts as comunity members at all.
There are some technical discussions (yes you guessed, the bear is
struggling to follow them) about the relative virtues of moblin and maemo,
and what meego will be. But much of the angst on t.m.o is about a) will my
n900 still get support and b) will our community be radically changed.
Good pieces of advice flying around on twitter: since maemo out numbers
moblin in terms of community members, we need to make it clear up front who
we consider community members. I hope that will include the non-developer
end-user bears as well as the clever people who understand it all.
K
I figure we proceed as planned for next month and look at it as a
transitional period for the end of the year.
Agreed. I can even see my platform ;-)
Feeling very confused and just a bit steamrolled,
Indeed; the next council is definitely transitional and hopefully the
technology will make such steamrolling easier. Stskeeps is already
pitching MeeGo as Mer++ and so this could still be good long-term news
for engaged N8x0 and N900 users.
Cheers,
Andrew
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