Brainstorm

Brainstorms

Delivering Java SE to Fremantle

Posted on 2009-10-19 11:24 UTC by Claus Feichtinger. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Desktop, Utilities, System, Programming.

The purpose of this proposal is to assess the demand and determine the best way to deliver a Java SE - runtime for Fremantle / Maemo 5.

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Protecting private content when lending device

Posted on 2009-10-24 13:39 UTC by John Veness. Status: Under consideration, Categories: System.

When I get my Maemo 5 device, I imagine I will want to show it off to other people, and let other people try it out for themselves, as it looks like it will be very 'touchable' and nice and easy to use. I would like to do this because of being proud of the device, and this also might encourage other people to get one.

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Open source software distributed via store.ovi.com

Posted on 2009-11-21 20:04 UTC by Quim Gil. Status: Under consideration, Categories: Marketing, maemo.org, Other.

The Ovi Store has no problems in the publication and distribution of open source software per se. But in order to be approved as Ovi publisher you need to meet certain legal requirements usually not met by individual free software developers or even more complex projects handled by volunteers. In practice this means that open source applications don't have a simple way to reach end users via Ovi.

This might be a missed opportunity for open source software to get the acknowledge of average Nokia customers and to compete side by side with non-free / commercial alternatives.

Discussion: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=385610

 

Google Calendar & Contacts synchronization

Posted on 2009-12-07 08:00 UTC by Henri Bergius. Status: Under consideration, milestone: Fremantle, Categories: Internet & Networking.

Google Calendar and Google Contacts are a popular way to manage PIM data "in the cloud". They are available nicely through the Google Apps web interfaces, and are supported for synchronization by many applications ranging from Apple's OS X desktop to iPhone and GNOME Evolution. However, on Maemo there is no way to synchronize them.