Re: Hackfest proposed (was RE: Summary of GNOME Mobile GUADEC BOF)

[Matthew Allum <mallum openedhand com>]

Hi;

On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 12:21 +0300, quim gil nokia com wrote:
> 
> Still, Tracker still needs lots of love - specially to make happy
> users with big memory cards and online content reachable from their
> mobile devices.

Focusing on tracker is a little risky imho as it is a bit of a hot
potato among developers.

> 
> > Things that come to mind are syncing and filling holes around 
> > gsm telephony based stuff ?
> 
> This is indeed a very interesting idea from a pure GNOME Mobile point
> of view. What about asking any the LiMo partners to fund it and do it
> in another place/date?  :) 
> 
> Having a hackfest on GSM telephony stuff funded by Nokia around the
> Maemo Summit would send a big and totally wrong message not only to
> GNOME but to the whole mobile industry.
> 

Oops sorry - I was thinking about this in a GNOME Mobile context not a
purely Maemo one. 

  == Matthew