quim, I obviously think Nokia can support my project.
At present liqbase is a usable beta quality application (which just got added to extras after an extensive testing run), but I believe it could be so much more. I have spent the last 6 months putting together the building blocks of an expansive project with one simple goal: to make our tablets shine! It has grown into something which I am proud to use and to show to friends and which has features and abilities a lot of people thought would require new hardware to run. Its been (very) hard work so far, and has a lot of the seeds required to make full use of not just what we have now but also to expand into what we will get in the future (mantra: better camera.. better camera..) I already think (and so do many beta testers) that liqbase is a killer application, I pull it out and use it 20 times a day for such mundane things that I am constantly surprised at :) it is a consuming project and I have run out of time, I have ignored my family and I have drained myself physically. I cannot continue to build liqbase at night as a hobby, I have never built anything as large as this before and need help. I therefore ask Nokia publically and officially to allow me to extend this project both technically and financially. I am not a business man and I do not have the management experience to fully understand the metrics of the numerous directions liqbase can take, but know with a team around me we can make this work. Gary On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 >
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