Brainstorm: Brainstorms, category Marketing

Undelayed bugfix releases for Nokia (open source) packages.

vilre@cs.tut.fi (Ville Reijonen) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:49:08 +0000

Nokia has few applications under open source licence such as Modest and application manager. Now, as case with Modest by the time of creation of this text, there are a few critical bugs/issues which affect a large amount of people. The fix is available in the source code but updated version of the package is not released until Nokia releases a full update. The lead time could be couple of months and the release times are never annouced beforehand.

Due to the delay, many active people notice the same bugs and go to bugzilla. Sometimes they do notice the existing report and write their own - this causes many duplicated bug reports to appear. Sometimes the bug is already fixed internally. A lot of effort is wasted thereby with the delayed bugfix release and redundant work. Delays and redundant work creates frustration. Additionally, the software may be unusable for many months when it could be fixed now. Talented individual frustrated enough might roll up their own update, but if 10 people do it for themselves this is clearly again a lot more wasted effort and time.

Delay is therefore bad for user experience and can make the whole device look bad in the eye of frustrated people. This is definitely a lost position for marketing efforts when fast bugfix releases would be a positive element for consumer mind.

Discussion on Talk: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35793

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Open source software distributed via store.ovi.com

quim.gil@nokia.com (Quim Gil) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:04:37 +0000

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

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maemo.org and maemo.nokia.com content sharing

isko.salminen@activeark.com (Isko Salminen) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:23:35 +0000

How do we make maemo.org and maemo.nokia.com to work better together?

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Maemo Merchandise Store

vkv.raju@gmail.com (Kasi Viswanath) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:48:40 +0000

Considering that Maemo already has got some traction with people all around the world, it might be a good idea to promote it further by selling Maemo Merchandise. This would also satisfy Maemo's fans/well-wishers in getting those t-shirt which they only currently dream of :)

The Maemo Merchandise Store (MMS) can start with the regular common stuff like T-shirts, tea/coffee mugs, water bottles, usb drives, caps, stickers, etc.

This can be done either by Nokia or by someone interested (or experienced in this stuff) from the community. Either may choose to do this for a reasonable profit too.

Throw in your votes if you think this is well-worth it. Enough votes might actually turn this into reality!

EDIT: Interesting discussion and any possible doubts on licensing issues clarified here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=358341#post358341 (Thanks @Texrat)

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Developer and Applications promotion

isko.salminen@activeark.com (Isko Salminen) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:35:01 +0000

How can Nokia do the best possible job to promote applications and the people behind them through maemo.nokia.com?

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