Brainstorm: Sandbox, waiting, category maemo.org

maemo.org Community Outreach Team.

andrewfblack@gmail.com (Andrew Black) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:56:34 +0000

I would like propose that we start a community outreach team that helps members of our community in getting to Linux shows and Electronics Shows to help spread the word about Maemo and the Nokia Phone/Internet Tablets. Members who wish to be sponsored to go on outreach trips would have to request to be part of the outreach team and be evaluated by either maemo.org community council, or maybe paid members of maemo.org team. Once accepted to the outreach team members would then have to request sponsorship in some kind of a formal form 60 days prior to the event they wish to be sponsored to attend. The community council or who ever is put in charge of this would then decided if this event should be sponsored and how much to give in helping the team member getting there. Amount of sponsorship could depend on distance from show, length of show, what member would be doing at show(ie some shows require payment to have a table in their expo room).

If approved things like things like table fee would be paid straight to the show so team member never handles that money. Money for team member to go to show would be either paid up front or could be in reimbursement after the show. Large expenses like hotel rooms should require of registration for room, or receipt. Food/Gas could be paid in a set amount like $40 per day for food and so much per gas depending on distance. We could create kits of things like flyers and posters/banners for tables at event. Those would be created by who ever is put in charge of outreach team and would be mailed to team members before going to first event. They would keep kit after event and request more disposable supplies like flyers before new events.

Members should be required to be active and attend at least one event per calendar year. Those not going to events should be removed from team to make room for more people. Some requirements for team should include, owning at least one Nokia device that runs Maemo. This device should be run either Current OS or one generation back(no need in going out and showing off OS2005 at linux show). They should be an active member in community on either forums, IRC, or Mailing Lists. Team members must be able to talk to strangers about the maemo, explain what it is and if possible be able to do BoF or Session at the show they go to.

Now everyone might be thinking that this is a great idea but where would money come from. I am also requesting that Nokia would create a budget and give the money to maemo.org to cover this. Since we would be advertising not only the maemo.org community but the Nokia devices as well.

I look forward on hearing everyones idea on this and I hope this helps to grow the maemo.org communty.

Forum Post http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=488646#post488646

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Brainstorm home page headings should be links

kasper.souren@gmail.com (Kasper Souren) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:08:37 +0000

The headings at http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm should be links: hot/fresh brainstorms/solutions and dev started, implemented, need voters/solutions only show a couple of items. It would be nice if these would be meaningful links to longer lists.

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Speed up maemo.org/community/brainstorm

kasper.souren@gmail.com (Kasper Souren) — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:23:22 +0000

http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/ is really slow (>10s load times). Get a faster server or possibly another fix.

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Add a wiki direct link to the menu of maemo.org

c.navarrogarcia@gmail.com (Carlos Navarro Garcia) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:20:14 +0000

The maemo wiki is quite useful but I found it quite hidden in the site.

Why is not moved to a menu item like : Intro, Downloads, community, development, news and Talk?

The only way to get to the wiki main page is in community, Get Help, Use the wiki...

Just an idea.

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Dynamic Help Documentation

a.r.j.wright@gmail.com (Antoine RJ Wright) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:34:37 +0000

Summary: Creation and maintenance of help documentation for Maemo 5 devices, based on a wiki format, which is appended to downloadable applications via a system-level API, and stays in sync on the device in a similar fashion to the application via Application Manager Updates.

Long Version: Here's the issue, documentation. No one likes to do it, and to create documentation on the device, is a secondary-side of pain for many developers. Therefore I recommend the creation of a a unified documentation point - the Maemo.org wiki - to which all of those who have Maemo 5/6 applications would append their program's help documentation within this wiki. And through the use of a system-level API (or additional dependency), the developer would be able to include this documentation onto the device as a part of the on-board Help feature. This would be linked through a Help or About menu in the respective application, and then also accessible from the general Help application on the device.

Benefits: the documentation would be in one place - and updated as often as the application itself (if the developer does right). Users would not have to guess at where to find documentation towards their device, and what they find at Maemo.org would be equal to what is on their device.

Note: This idea is not to mean that the entire wiki would be downloaded onto the device, only those entries which are attached (dependencies) to the application. In this way, a person would have just a snippet of the documentation as they need it.

Downsides: Developers would have to write/maintain documentation in addition to their applications (positions for technical writers should open up here therefore). Documentation that is not up-to-date would reflect negatively on the developer's karma rating, which can seem unfair for a popular application that sees frequent downloading and positive comments.

Link to Talk thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=386337

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