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Goodbye NOKIA and thanks for all the fish

Uwe Kaminski — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:28:07 +0000

Just my personal opinion about the decision of Nokia to support Windows Phone as main mobile platform.

NOKIA’s decision is a big smash into the face of

all the developers which believed the story about QT as main framework and actively working on applications for MeeGo/Symbian
the community which was supported over years and which was growing more and more
Intel and all the other MeeGo partners
Business partners and shareholders which now have to wait at least one more year until the new platform is ready
all the NOKIA employers which have to do a 180° turn now
the whole open source idea @ NOKIA

NOKIA will end up as an hardware partner among others like Samsung and HTC for Microsoft’s OS which may be nice but not relevant for me. This decision comes years to late now. It is the second time a decision which changes everything at NOKIA without releasing a real product. The first time was the decision to do it the open source way.

It’s a very sad day for NOKIA and also for me.

But I don’t will go without a list of things I got from the Maemo community and NOKIA the last years:

Contact to a great community and awesome people all over the world
Maemo (and also MeeGo) was helping me to understand open source and the idea behind
A much better knowledge about GNU Linux
An awesome device, the N900
indirectly it helped me to get a new job
indirectly it helped me to get a c-base member

I’ll track what happens with MeeGo but I’m sure I never will own a NOKIA product again. Open Source is not dead (outside of NOKIA).

Community trifft Development – Umgang mit Bugs bei Meamo und MeeGo

Uwe Kaminski — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:08:30 +0000

Der erste mobile freidae berlin fand vor kurzem in der c-base Berlin statt und ich trug mit folgender Präsentation zur Veranstalung bei:

View more presentations from Uwe Kaminski.

Die wichtigsten Links aus dem Vortrag:

Korrekte Stelle zum eingeben neuer Bugs finden:
- http://maemo.org/packages/

Bugsquad und Testingsquad:
- http://wiki.maemo.org/Bugsquad
- http://wiki.maemo.org/Testing_Squad

Informationen zum QA-Prozess für Tester und Entwickler
- http://wiki.maemo.org/Help_testing_software
- http://wiki.maemo.org/Extras-testing

Neues Logo für maemo.org

Uwe Kaminski — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:00:56 +0000

Es gibt ein neues Logo für die Tablet-Community maemo.org:

Vorangegangen war ein Wettbewerb, bei dem jeder der sich berufen fühlte, seinen persönlichen Favoriten kreieren und einreichen konnte. Mich persönlich erinnert das Neue ja ein wenig an jenes von LastFM und auch die Nummer mit den KLEINEN großbuchstaben wirkt auf einen Design-Laien ebenfalls befremdlich aber es gab definitiv viele Logos, die mir schlechter gefielen und nur wenige, die ich besser fand.

Das zum Beispiel. Oder das.

Und alle Vorschläge zusammen: Hier.