Check out Nokia’s point of view on What Mobile Users Need and How Open Source Can Help, in the words of Ari Jaaksi (listen - read - slides). Building upstream following community rules is in the heart of this plan. This is what Nokia has been doing, learning and contributing back a lot. Now it’s [...]

Hot topic these days: Mobile applications, RIP - Offline web applications. Of course the Web2.0 guys (let me put it this way) have an agenda, but the developers tied to native environments have it as well. What to believe? There are many moving targets these days.
In the last years we have seen the omnipresent web [...]

If you remember, we were figuring out the best way of rewarding community contributions to maemo. Well, the result is now out in the form of 500 emails to 500 fortunate people getting a substantial discount for a Nokia N810. The official announcement (including the list of winners) will be in maemo.org next Monday. We [...]

We have got around 900 submissions to the N810 maemo device program, which is an interesting subset of the >7000 users registered in maemo.org. We have 500 discounts to be distributed among people that is or could be pushing this platform forward. Now we only need to connect this sensible, common-sense principle to 500 userIDs.
Because [...]

Maemo roadmapping, revisited. Now it’s better connected to our internal reality. The development platform plans are exposed, although more details should be still provided via wiki pages and enhancement requests. Our aim is also to provide more details about the maemo linux platform itself. We’ll see. The application level (Nokia supported & maemo garage) has [...]