Migrating to Community-driven Infrastructure

Contents

Introduction

As of January, 18th 2013 the *.maemo.org infrastructure has been completely handed over to the community. This page is intended as a central place where status and other operational information can be gathered.

Inventory

As a first step we try to gather information about the present infrastructure at *.maemo.org and *.meego.com. This "inventory" is intended to provide an overview about all components of the infrastructure as well as to provide information that will later on aid during the actual migration.

Currently the following topics are considered important for the migration:

  • Legal Issues (Names, Trademarks, Domain Names, etc.)
  • Infrastructure (Web Site, Forum, Wiki, Autobuilder + MeeGo OBS, Mailinglists, Garage, etc.)
  • Steering (How do we want to organize ourselves? However, please keep this thread on technical details and discuss political issues in a distinct thread at talk.maemo.org.)


Legal Issues

What is the state about the name "Maemo"?

"... Maemo is currently a registered trademark of Nokia and the domain name is owned by Nokia. Our previous request to transfer the domain name was denied - I don't expect that to change. We have "maemocommunity.org" as a backup. ..." http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1226264&postcount=8

Who owns "maemo.org"?

Domain ID:D105692361-LROR
Domain Name:MAEMO.ORG
Created On:07-Feb-2005 16:26:32 UTC
Last Updated On:07-Jan-2013 10:25:55 UTC
Expiration Date:07-Feb-2014 16:26:32 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:MarkMonitor Inc. (R37-LROR)

Registrant ID:mmr-31461
Registrant Name:Nokia Corporation
Registrant Organization:Nokia Corporation
Registrant Street1:P.O.Box 226
Registrant Street2:Nokia Group
Registrant Postal Code:00045
Registrant Country:FI
Registrant Phone:+358.718008000
Registrant FAX:+358.718034496
Registrant Email:dnsauthority@nokia.com

What is needed for the community to run maemo.org?

TMO forums donated to Hildon Foundation: http://maemo.org/community/board/tmo_forums_donated_to_hildon_foundation/

What are possible legal issues?
What are the costs?

According to the Hildon Foundation it will take approximately $1000 US per month to ensure all of the infrastructure, including professional maintenance, is retained. This being said, if two hundred users are willing to donate $5 per month on a regular basis, we would be able to continue providing the current maemo.org infrastructure.

If you're willing to donate, please visit http://hildonfoundation.org/support/

Alternatives?

"... we can use maemocommunity.org or some other alternative ..." http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1226264&postcount=8

What about the personal information of the users?

Parts of the information about users stored in their profiles may be considered personal and therefore protected by law. We should analyze what that personal information may be and what the requirements are for transferring it to the new entity that will assume the operation of the services. Some mechanism for requesting permission from users may have to be used.

Infrastructure

The following table is intended to give a concise and easily perceivable overview of the infrastructure. Please use the next sub-section for providing more detailed information.

Resource URL (If Applicable) Migration Status (DONE/WIP/NST) Contact Person Known Issues Last status update
Maemo Main Web Site http://www.maemo.org DONE  ?
Maemo Forums http://talk.maemo.org WIP chemist Email not working 2013-01-20
Maemo Wiki http://wiki.maemo.org DONE  ? 2013-01-20
Repositories http://repositories.maemo.org  ? WIP OFFLINE 2013-01-20
Blog aggregator http://planet.maemo.org  ? DONE
Maemo Garage https://garage.maemo.org/ DONE X-Fade 2013-01-20
Maemo Autobuilder WIP X-Fade
Maemo Nameservers NST  ? Still using Nokia Nameservers 2013-01-20
Drop http://drop.maemo.org WIP 2013-01-20
VCS http://vcs.maemo.org WIP OFFLINE 2013-01-20
Listserv https://lists.maemo.org WIP HTTP requests produce 404 errors 2013-01-20
Static http://static.maemo.org  ?
Stage http://stage.maemo.org  ?
MeeGo (C)OBS https://build.pub.meego.com/ Y, for at least 1 person (plz update) rzr Tizen , novel ?
Voting Infrastructure / Servers  ?  ?  ?  ?
Scratchbox http://scratchbox.org/  ?  ?  ?

More Detailed Information

In this sub section more detailed information about the entries in the table can be placed. The intent is to keep the table concise while still being able to have all relevant information at hand.

Maemo Talk

"... It sounds like we will need a vbulletin license to migrate the forum content. If not, we can start all over again with a new forum. ..." http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1226264&postcount=8

Possible migration path

"It is indeed, and when the time comes, I will hand off a backup of the forum software, database, and Talkmaster responsibilities to who/where ever the "official" maemo.org will be hosted." http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1223262&postcount=32

Scratchbox

Scratchbox is also sponsored by Nokia. (Please verify?) Scratchbox is required for running the Fremantle and Harmattan SDK.

Steering

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