Comments on: Collaboration at the heart

By: Tyson Key

Tyson Key — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:44:17 +0000

Thanks David. I look forward to seeing what appears then…

/me stares at the clock and taps it, to make sure that it’s still working

By: David Wood

David Wood — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:58:24 +0000

Hi Tyson,

>any chance that we’ll see some “core” header files released as open source, for reference material, any time soon? .. I’m thinking of e32def.h, e32base.h and e32cons.h…

Header files like these will be part of SDKs (Software Development Kits – as used by application developers) and also part of PDKs (Platform Development Kits – as used by platform developers). Both SDKs and PDKs are being released publicly. People won’t need to belong to a Symbian Foundation member company to dowlnload these kits.

The versions of these header files used in Symbian^2 will be publicly available for the first time, when a first release of the PDK is made. I expect this will be in early May.

// David W.

By: Tyson Key

Tyson Key — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:22:06 +0000

Hmm, any chance that we’ll see some “core” header files released as open source, for reference material, any time soon? (I’m thinking of e32def.h, e32base.h and e32cons.h at the moment).

Thanks.

By: Tyson Key

Tyson Key — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:26:10 +0000

Re: The Friars House artwork. Does anyone have some snaps of it, out of curiosity? I’d be interested to see what was so controversial about it…

By: Ash

Ash — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:03:37 +0000

I like the new logo (though not sure of using the new font everywhere).. its simple and non-techy, which is good for a change.

By: Joel West

Joel West — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:39:24 +0000

I think the Android logo is more polished than the Symbian logo. And I’d hardly say that Apache, Gnome and Python have gone corporate just because they want a logo suitable for use in branding.

By: Duncan Cragg

Duncan Cragg — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:04:29 +0000

Your blog post arrived just as I was preparing my own on much the same subject – I just had time to refer back:

http://duncan-cragg.org/blog/post/symbian-and-linux/

Hope your readers find it interesting!

Duncan Cragg

By: David Wood

David Wood — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:35:21 +0000

Hi Edward, >that must mean that we can send in logo suggestions? Take a look at the Symbian Foundation photostream of characters on Flickr. If you'd like to contribute some characters of your own, send us a pointer to them! >I could do something… Once we've got our main sites into public beta, hopefully you'll see lots of other ways that you can collaborate too! // David W.

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:47:19 +0000

I still don’t get it, the title says ”collaboration at the heart” so that must mean that we can send in logo suggestions? I could do something…

By: David Wood

David Wood — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:44:39 +0000

Hi g, >Choosing an obscure license over the already established ones doesn’t encourage developers. Agreed - but the Eclipse Public Licence isn't obscure. The OSI (Open Source Initiative) lists the EPL as one of just nine licences "that are popular and widely used or with strong communities". >If you want social action, it needs to be deserved. And to deserve that, you have to cater to the community. Agreed! >This website and the artwork is nice and it’s obviously a good start, but it doesn’t tell me where to get the code and how to get hacking. Sorry, the particular website which answers these questions is currently in internal beta. However, as soon as possible, we're going to convert it to a public beta. >Where’s the git repo? We decided in the end to use Mercurial rather than Git (though it was a close-run thing). // David W.