keesj

Developers, developers, developers.

There is one thing I really don't like and that is being a user. Calling myself a user
would imply having a different relationship to maemo community. Users don't help each other,
Users have problem and expect somebody else to fix it. Users don't care about how things work. Being a user is just uncool. I see myself as an average N800 “user”: geeky, command line fanatic, and there is nothing I would like more then being able to program while on the road. I guess that what I am trying to say is that the average maemo user really is a developer and the average maemo developer is really a Nokia employee. There has bean some discussion on the maemo mailing list about splitting the mailing list. The current proposal look like this:

- platform (current maemo-developers)
- applications (new list)
- power users (current maemo-users)

Apparently nokia wants to to communicate about the platform with external “developers” I don't know how this will work since they their policy is to not announce future development (perhaps a platform NDA accessible to developers can help?)

Platform , applications and power users all sound pretty bad to me. How about
maemo-distro (about the distributions)
maemo-developer nothing changes here developers are people like me
maemo-users (newbie stuff, perhaps merged with maemo-developer)

Of course the term that really makes me feel at home is maemopeople because it does
not tell what your status it withing the community but emphasizes the community felling. And that feeling is quite strong for this “power end user”

Developers, developers, developers.

02/02/07

11:26:41 am Developers, developers, developers.

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