[mwkn-contributors] MWKN needs more contribution

[Ryan Abel]

On Apr 25, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Sebastian 'CrashandDie' Lauwers wrote:

> The only person who would look at what I was doing
> was Jaffa, and GeneralAntilles when I pestered him enough.

Yes, I know, I suck. ;)

> I will be moving back to Europe next week, and plan on changing my
> lifestyle quite a bit. I don't expect to be doing a lot development
> nor Open Source related stuff anymore in the future. I've lost
> interest in Maemo, never really had any interest in MeeGo, and have to
> send back the N900 to Nokia anyway as soon as I'm settled down -- Quim
> gave me an extension as I'm currently in the shits financially and
> really needed the phone. I've put the code up in gitorious, use it or
> don't, I can't really be bothered anymore.


I think between MeeGo and the Summit loan periods ending, a lot of the enthusiasm has been leached out of the core community. I know it's a continual effort for me to remain productive lately, what with having to find your feet in this new MeeGo thing and having the rug pulled out from under you in maemo.org.

So, I think it comes down to two things: finishing up the web backend so we're not bottlenecked on one or two people, and properly incentivising news mining. I proposed noting the source of each item in the issue (so if jukey tweets the one about a new Flickr browser, he gets a mention on it in the issue), which at least gets your name in the issue.

As it stands, there's little incentive to do the work and the doing of it kind of defeats the intended purpose of mwkn in the first place (aggregating the activity from a wide and varied community to make it easier to keep track of), since you're going to be spending time doing what mwkn was intended to make easier. ;)

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Ryan Abel
Maemo Community Council member