Let's get to know the main assets of the Maemo and Moblin communities. The resources below refer to http://moblin.org and http://maemo.org even if other related community sites should also be taken into account e.g. http://www.moblinzone.com/ or http://www.mwkn.net/
Both communities have many corners and probably nobody knows all of them. Feel free editing this table if there is anything missing. Items sorted in no particular order.
| Asset | Maemo | Moblin | MeeGo considerations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Servers | Recently moved to a new ISP, Nokia and community admins. | Hosted by the Linux Foundation. Intel admins | Hosted by the Linux Foundation. Currently Intel admins only |
| CMS | Midgard controls static pages and many services - see below | Drupal | Drupal used to kick-off meego.com |
| Community apps - distribution | Downloads allowing user rating and commenting (based on Midgard). QA community process including autobuilder, Extras-devel and Extras-testing, where community testers approve (or not) apps to Extras. Meet the Testing Squad. | http://garage.moblin.org/ | tbd http://meego.com/garage |
| Community apps - infra | Garage, a GForge. There is a trend of projects using standard community infra instead e.g. http://gitorious.org | Git | tbd http://meego.com/garage |
| Bug reporting | Bugzilla, now open also to community projects. Meet the Bugsquad- | Bugzilla | Bugzilla is on its way |
| Feature requests | Brainstorm, open recently and still consolidating. Before everything was handled in Bugzilla but a split was made since Bugzilla was considered too harsh for non-technical contributors that anyway could do a good job branstorming new features. | none, other than filing bugs | ? |
| Community speakers | Elected Maemo Community Council. Its primary purpose is to represent the views and opinions of the Maemo Community to Nokia, and vice versa. Elections for a new 6-month term are in March 2010. | Moblin Steering Committee would be the closest? | MeeGo brings a different model of community, not lead anymore by a single company. See its Governance model. There hasn't been any discussion about an elected body (it would have been pointless before the public launch). |
| User reputation | Karma system recording all kinds of contributions to the project. Used to determine Council eligibility and voting rights. Also helpful in the selection of contributors sponsored to events, developer devices... | none | ? |
| Wiki | http://wiki.maemo.org based on MediaWiki. Garage projects and maemo.gitorious.org also have wikis but the guideline is to converge in the maemo.org wiki as much as possible. Meet the Maemowiki Action Group. | none | This wiki, also based on MediaWiki |
| Mailing lists | Basically 3: community, developers and users. Many garage projects have their own lists and there is plenty of them. | Basically 3: devel-English, devel-Portuguese and localization. | Starting with MeeGo-dev. |
| IRC | Several channels in freenode.net. | #moblin at irc.freenode.net | Starting with #meego at irc.freenode.net |
| Forum | Talk is now a central piece of maemo.org. It has huge activity, that has increased exponentially since the N900 launch. There are long term contributors interested in OSS, platform, Linux, development... there are new contributors interested in the N900 and coolest apps regardless of license... and all combinations. | Web based discussion happening around blog comments. | ? |
| Documentation | The Maemo team at Nokia has been moving the documentation work to the wiki in order to make the most of community contributions. We are literally half way, and the last plans are to use the wiki as the master for the "Maemo 6 Developer Guide". | Moblin SDK docs
Intel Atom Developer SDK is also related, if you want to get apps into AppUp | ? |
| News | "Social News", aggregating plenty of sources and then using a system of thumbs up/down to decide the news highlighted. Complemented by official community announcements usually written by Council members that stick to the maemo.org homepage. | Moblin community blogs | Humble start in the form of meego.com hosted blogs. |
| Planet | Planet Maemo, used to aggregate blogs of community members under certain requirements. Based on Midgard. | none | Intention to have a plan for blogs/planet soon. |
| Community 'pro' team | Nokia funds a team of community members working full/part time to help completing tasks based on community priorities and monthly sprints. | none | Before the launch only Intel and Nokia employees have been working on MeeGo (obviously). No further discussion has taken place (it would have been pointless before the public launch). Nokia is keeping the current contracts with the maemo.org team regardless of MeeGo and the intention is to keep doing with this budget whatever is preferred by the community. |
| Community localization | Ongoing work to enable Community localization in "Maemo 6" using Transifex. | Transifex | ? |
| Security vulnerability handling and advisories | security@maemo.org as a reporting and contact address, bulletins, bugs tagged as "security" in maemo.org Bugzilla. | Contacted, waiting for info. | The community probably needs a security vulnerability coordination group, a policy and a way to publish advisories but in interim we can probably rely on existing ones (Nokia, Intel, Open Source CERT) |