On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 03:12:47PM +0300, Tomas Junnonen wrote: > Defaults matter. By enabling extras through an install file on garage > you're limiting yourself to the hardcore crowd who knows to visit garage > in the first place. True, but we don't need to wait until the next OS/Firmware refresh to change the default. It would be a good thing to do, but that's probably at least 2-3 months away, no? (And I expect/hope/fear/anticipate eagerly that there will only be 2-3 releases before some new hardware refresh moving us from the 770 to the N800 to maybe the N850, right? :-) What about highlighting some really cool community package that would be of use to the general user population, not just the power users[1], and putting it in extras, and then plugging it on the Tableteer web site? Then when people install it, they wlil get the extra repository automatically added to sources list. And in general, the goal really should be to encourage community members to make their packages polished enough so they *are* worthy to be published and plugged on Tableteer. After all, in the open source community that kind of publicity and reputation capital of getting plugged on an "official" site is a really big motivator. So if there were standards published about what it would take to do that, I think it would make a huge difference in terms of that "carrot". And that was Nokia's original dream of the Internet Tablet anyway, right --- to build a platform and to get the community to help make it much more useful? (At least, that's what I remember from chatting with the Nokia folks at that really nice shindig in Tremezzo, Italy. :-) - Ted [1] Although given the lack of a decent Calendar/PDA application and better cellphone integration of the Contacts application, I suspect a large number of the regular users of the N800 *are* power users; right now I have to carry around my Cell phone, my palm pilot, *and* my N-800, and when I can't carry around so many toys, guess which one gets left at home? Hint: it's not the cell phone. And until Nokia figures out how to implement decent PDA functionality, I'm still going to be carrying my Palm pilot around. I paid $$$ for the E70 and was *very* disappointed in the quality of the PDA applications; why is it that 12-year-old Palm technology still better than anything Nokia can put out over a decade later? I've occasionally considered ditching the E70 and replacing it with a Treo, just to cut down on the number of units I have to carry around. If I could get a Treo (or something with Palm Pilot level of functionality) in a E70 form-factor, I'd be ditching the E70 so fast it would make your head spin. And if the Palm Foleo has better PDA applications, it might seriouslly threaten the N800; after all, it has built-in keyboard and is only $100 more....
