Presentation at Bossa Conference 2009, in Porto de Galinhas

2. Maemo Community
who, what, why and how

3. Hi!
My name is Eduardo Lima, nice to meet you

4. You can call me Etrunko
Work for INdT
Member of the first Maemo Community Council
Involved with Maemo since 2005
Currently maitain the EFL stack for Maemo

5. Disclaimer
I'm wearing my maemo.org t-shirt

6. What is Maemo?
First, a bit of history

8. May 2005 - The beginning
Nokia announces the 770 Internet Tablet
maemo.org goes online

9. source: http://web.archive.org

10. Still in 2005
May – [ANN]: Developer device program
July to August – New services: wiki, planet, svn
August – Internet Tablet Talk goes online
November – 770 finally available for sale

11. 2006: Try to Do it right
April – [ANN]: Maemo 2.0 roadmap
May – Garage for project hosting
July – Maemo 2.0 and Sardine/Herring
December – Nokia hires Quim Gil

12. 2007: Evolution
January – [ANN]: Nokia N800 and Maemo 3.0
February – Download section
May – New website
November – Nokia N810 and Maemo 4.0
released

13. source: http://web.archive.org

14. 2008: Maemo Reloaded
January – Nokia acquires Trolltech
May – LinuxTag [ANN]: Fremantle and Harmattan
June – Brainstorm / 100 days / 2010 Agenda
June – Maemo 4.1 released
September – Maemo Summit

15. What is Maemo?
Now you know it

16. In summary
Maemo is the software platform
Running on the internet tablet devices
Maintained by Maemo Software at Nokia
Delivered to the Maemo Community
Formed by users, developers and enthusiasts

17. Maemo Community
Let me introduce you some guys

18. Maemo 'Employees'
Niels Breet – Webmaster
Dave Neary – Docmaster
Andre Klapper/Karsten Bräckelmann –
Bugmasters
Jeremiah Foster – Debmaster

19. Maemo Community Council
Ryan Abel (GeneralAntilles)
Andrew Flegg (Jaffa)
Tim Samoff (timsamoff)
Simon Pickering (lardman)
Eduardo Lima (Etrunko)

20. The Council
Community representatives
Elected every six months by the community
Distill community issues and bring to Nokia

21. Internet Tablet Talk
Where the users meet
21,569 members
24,920 threads
265,500 posts
http://internettablettalk.com

22. Right now
What's going on?

24. What else?
Community council elections
Website redesign
Integrating Internet Tablet Talk to maemo.org

26. The Future
Here we go again

28. Plans for 2010
Best community for mobile Linux innovation
Release early, release often
One place to track feedback
Co-production of official & community
documentation
Community localization
Maemo variants - Happening

29. Getting Involved
Let's rock!

30. But how?
Bring your app/library to Maemo
Commit to a task for a sprint
Join the mailing lists
IRC channels
Reporting bugs

31. Questions?
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32. Thank You!
eduardo.lima@openbossa.org
http://etrunko.blogspot.com