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Open Coral Teams

By On January 3, 2012 · 8 Comments · In community, dashboard, MeeGo, meego network finland, network, Open Coral, open source, Participate

We have lured in around 8 to 10 people to participate in development. We have graphics designers, UX specialists, concept designers and a few code developers. Nevertheless this project does not look like a normal open source project. In normal case, code developers are the majority if testers are not included. Of course one must [...]

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Year 2011 – ends and beginnings

By On December 31, 2011 · 13 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, finland, Hackers, hackerspace, LDP, MeeGo, meego network finland, Qt, Ultimaker, Uncategorized

At first I was not going to write about what big and small events took place 2011 in my life, what I participated in and so on. Then I thought why not. It will offer me a chance to sob and joy So, here are some events, beginnings and ends that took place 2011.

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Reuniting hackerminded Tampere

By On September 19, 2011 · 12 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, finland, Hackers, hackerspace, MeeGo, meego network finland, open source, Qt, Uncategorized

Tampere has a lot of great activity concerning open source, hacker spirit, talent, determination and creativity. I’ve been lucky, since I’ve been involved in many of them (and still am). A lot of activities are taking place in parallel in wide variety of communities. Tampere has hosted a lot of big (in Finnish scale) and [...]

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Fleeing paid developers?

By On September 1, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Ecosystem, Intel, MeeGo, nokia, research, Uncategorized, Understand

While I was lurking in IRC the other day as usual, I noticed someone mentioning that mailing lists seem to be quite quiet. I agreed with the statement. In the past months there has been a lot more activity, but lately not so much. One obvious reason came to my mind immediately: holidays. Yet I was [...]

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Network Programmers and Switchers

By On August 25, 2011 · 17 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, Intel, MeeGo, nokia, Qt, research, Understand

I’ve been a fan of Castells[1] ever since I read his trilogy The Information Age [2][3][4]. When I started to think about my PhD around a year ago about open source ecosystems, I stumbled upon Castells latest theories in a great book “Communication Power”[5]. His theory of networks and communication inspired me and I decided [...]

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The amount of paid developers in project

By On August 23, 2011 · 10 Comments · In Android, community, Ecosystem, MeeGo, research

First of all, I have to make clear that most developers don’t see any difference in general between paid developer and contributor. However, they see differences between the two if it is asked indirectly. I quess the ‘I don’t care’ answer refers to results, where it does not matter who did it as [...]

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Developer Matrix

By On August 22, 2011 · 25 Comments · In community, Ecosystem, MeeGo, open source, research, Understand

I took a closer look at the developer role model introduced at previous blog post Developers – refers to what? I started to think about a matrix which would present all the options where a developer could be located. Of course matrix would represent simplified model of the reality and would not apply [...]

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Problems ahead – splitted bug tracking

By On August 19, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Android, community, Ecosystem, MeeGo, nokia, open source, Uncategorized

Bug tracking is a powerful tool for developers. It is one of the most important communication methods. In app development developer has to know where to file a bug. Let’s take an example. In MeeGo ecosystem there are multiple bugtrackers for different purposes: Qt / IDE, MeeGo project (several categories), multiple internal-only trackers. Also having [...]

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Developers – refers to what?

By On August 18, 2011 · 16 Comments · In Ecosystem, MeeGo, Participate, Qt, research, Uncategorized, Understand

Discussions around (open source and other) ecosystems and communities often include word ‘developer‘. Developer does this and that, developers are part of the community, developers need tools, they create apps, etc. Evidently, the word ‘developer’ refers to wide scale of roles and functions. I’ve been doing my PhD research about open source ecosystems and interviewed [...]

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LDP nodes spreading to new cities

By On August 8, 2011 · 17 Comments · In LDP, MeeGo, open source, Uncategorized

The buzz LDP has created in Tampere has inspired MeeGo/Qt users in other cities to contact LDP managers to establish new LDP nodes in Helsinki, Oulu and possibly Lahti too. Helsinki node will be hosted by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT). Lahti is still going through some thinking. Oulu is [...]

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