On 11 May 2010, at 14:21, <harri.hakuli...@nokia.com> <harri.hakuli...@nokia.com> wrote:
> Hello Meego's, > > As indicated in my previous mail about "MeeGo for N900" status, we were > planning to open up our MeeGo work around N900. Now I am happy to announce, > that we are there ;) > > First, to make it absolute clear for everybody: This is about open MeeGo > adaptation to N900 device. > Like any other MeeGo project, it is open source project for all applicaple > purposes, and does NOT directly have links to any potential Nokia product or > potential product plans. So, based on this or any other of my posts, please > do NOT start or continue speculation of upcoming Nokia MeeGo releases. That > is practically not helpfull, and mostly only takes our time when we need to > explain our words and actions in detail to various directions. > > From our part, we are trying to implement the open development model that has > been discussed now so many times around MeeGo. On practical terms, we are > trying to work based on proposal by Carsten Munk, see > http://wiki.meego.com/Proposal_for_Best_Practices_for_working_in_a_MeeGo_team > > We have already created some resources that will be used by the team, you can > learn about those and the upcoming ones from http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900. > We have IRC channel for realtime discussion, we will use meego-dev mailing > list for normal discussions and announcements, and we will have Gitorius > project for code. > > We will evolve our practicies during the work, so if you are interested, stay > tuned to those channels. I belive that soon we are also able to figure out, > what is best way for community members to help us in development, and then > effectively be part of the team. > > I would also like to use this as opportunity to introduce the team behind > this work (so far) and also thank them about their hard work and long hours. > We have team that consist of some Nokia subcontractors and also growing team > of Nokia personel: > > "MeeGo for N900" team (so far) > > - Cybercom Turku team; Marko Saukko, Jouni Peltonen, Sami Sirkiä, Jari Smura > and Luka Milovanov. > - Cybercom Tampere team; Kalle Lampila,Teemu Tuominen,Tuukka Mäkinen and > Ville Marjusaari. > - Carsten Munk via Nomovok > - Jarkko Nikula via Atomide > - Jan-Simon Möller from Linuxfoundation > - Nokia team; Alexander Kanevskiy, Felipe Contreras, Markus Lehtonen, Ameya > Palande, Sakari Poussa, Roger Quadros and me. > > In addition to official project team, many Nokia people have helped us > despite their hectic daily work, even with their free time. Most of them are > driven by the desire to open, repurpose and upstream all relevant sw that has > been originally created for Maemo 5 based N900 product during previous years. > > Marko, Jouni, Sami & Luka and Markus were working with me already on last > year when we did prototypes and interoperability tests of Maemo & Moblin > stuff combined in different ways. Based on those we had pretty good picture > of what we are doing and why. > > And of course, we have had very good and productive co-operation with various > Intel teams since those times. Anas Nashif and many others from Intel's MeeGo > team have done a lot for us by enabling ARM stuff in MeeGo OBS and > repositories. > > Last but not least, I want to give special thanks to Stskeeps (alias Carsten > Munk ;). He has teached us how to operate on open, and he has also done > respectable amount of this work since early days of Meego. In addition to > that, I belive that his earlier work on Maemo community and on Mer project > has in fact inspired all of us and shown a way to MeeGo alredy years ago. This is great to see Harri, thanks to you all for your hard work. -- Glen Gray <sla...@slaine.org>
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