Community Highlights for December 2008: Part II and January 2009: Part I
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Apologies for the delay, the holidays consumed much more of my time than intended (I hope everybody had happy and safe ones :)), so this edition will cover December and January.
Fremantle pre-alpha
The Fremantle pre-alpha was released in the beginning of December. This release marks the beginning of a new level of openness in Nokia's deve... [More]
posted on 2009-01-10 21:35 UTC by Ryan Abel. 0 comments.
Wiki articles you're missing out on
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My last article in this series discussed the Maemo-specific packaging features that often seem to fall by the wayside when developers are packaging for the platform. For this second installment, I'm going to focus on information slightly more relevant to regular users—interesting and, perhaps, overlooked articles in the wiki.
Ad blocki... [More]
posted on 2009-01-11 23:02 UTC by Ryan Abel. 0 comments.
Council election voting: your chance to act
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With only a few months to the next Community Council election, a plan is coming together on revising the voting system used; after much debate last time.
Current Process
The election process is defined currently as (roughly) "one-member, one-vote, 5 people with most votes gets elected". This is sub-optimal as people might not get the coun... [More]
posted on 2009-01-23 20:56 UTC by Andrew Flegg. 0 comments.
Maemo Community debmaster update...
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Although, we're a couple weeks later than anticipated (please accept our apologies), the Council is extremely close to hiring the first-ever Maemo Community debmaster!
We are very excited about this opportunity: not only will an official debmaster truly be a wonderful addition to our community development, but it will be the first time that Nokia wasn't involved in the hiring process of one of our community employees.
This speaks wonders for Nokia's desire (and trust) for the Maemo Community to be open ... [More]
posted on 2009-01-25 03:13 UTC by Tim Samoff. 0 comments.
maemo.org is changing...
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The more dedicated among you may follow one (or several) of the Maemo mailing lists . A bunch of you probably read Internet Tablet Talk (soon to become talk.maemo.org !). One or two of you may have even figured something out via this article on EIPI 's Mobile Tablets blog. But, if my assumptions are correct, there are many of you probably... [More]
posted on 2009-01-26 04:34 UTC by Tim Samoff. 9 comments.