Brainstorming maemo.org 2010

This week we held a maemo.org sprint meeting to review the past 6 months of progress, discuss ways we can improve moving forward, and figure out how the next 6 months are going to look (logs and minutes thanks to Niels and Dave, respectively). The sprint process has been undergoing revision and refocus over the past couple of months, and this new meeting format was one of the results of those refocusing efforts. The hope is to utilize meeting times more effectively by avoiding the checklist syndrome that had been steadily creeping into the monthly sprint meetings.

In 2008, after maemo.org started transitioning to community control, we had a 100 Days brainstorm to help shape the direction of maemo.org. The results of the 100 Days were very positive, and as we're going through a similar sort of shakeup here with MeeGo (if less immediately positive), we'd like to repeated the brainstorming process for the next 6 months.

To that end, everyone in the Maemo community is invited to participate in a brainstorm over the future of maemo.org and threads have been created at talk.maemo.org for each of the main areas of the website and community:

• Downloads,
• Talk and mailing lists,
• Wiki,
• News and planet,
• Bugzilla,
• Packages,
• Garage and developer services,
• and, finally, how the community should work: Community workings.

The aim of the brainstorm is to come up with a list of tasks which can be worked on the maemo.org team, and the wider community, over the next six months to help ensure maemo.org is in a fit state to provide support for the Maemo Community for as long as possible and that we're ready for the MeeGo transition however it ends up happening.