User:Peterschneider/community overview
The Maemo Community
Maemo community is the sum of developers working openly on the Maemo platform and compatible applications. It includes users of Maemo software with different levels of experience and expertise, interested in all kinds of collaboration and contributions to the project. Maemo community is a non-profit organization sponsored by Nokia, which is an active and equal member.
By end of May 2008, the Maemo community included over 12.000 registered members, more than 600 projects in the Maemo garage, and over 200 applications available for download. Anybody can join the Maemo community, contribute to the work, and provide transparent feedback to the community. All members of the community should be equal independent from their profit or non-profit background. Signing up to the community is as easy as registering on the homepage of maemo.org.
The home of the community is maemo.org. Announcements, news, views, and ideas of the community are aggregated on the homepage of maemo.org. The Maemo community meets at least once a year in the Maemo Summit (starting in 2008) and also in open source-related events such as GUADEC, LinuxTag, and Open Source in Mobile (OSIM).
Work on the Maemo platform is not exclusively happen through projects in the Maemo garage. In fact, most of the actual source code of the Maemo platform is created in open source projects such as Debian, SQLite, Gstreamer, Linux kernel, Telepathy, GNOME, and Mozilla. Therefore, members of the Maemo community are also contributors in other open source projects.