This morning, several of my Symbian colleagues are participating in the Nokia Developer Summit 2009 in Monaco. It’s a great chance to meet in person with many developers of Symbian applications and services.
With prime place in the agenda in between Nokia Group Executive Board member Tero Ojanperä and MySpace VP & GM of Mobile Operations John Faith, Symbian’s Executive Director Lee Williams will be presenting a keynote entitled The Evolution of Open Mobile Platforms:
One of Lee’s themes will be Welcome to the new world. He’ll be announcing a new doorway for developers to stay connected with the Symbian world – a new Twitter channel, @symbiandevco. This channel will complement the existing @symbian account:
- @symbiandevco is particularly for developers, who are interested in news, initiatives, and conversations within the Symbian developer community;
- @symbian is for general information exchange – which should interest gadget enthusiasts, industry watchers, technology aficionados, and so on.
Follow us on @symbiandevco and we’ll follow you back.
What’s more, for a two hour window this morning – 09.30 to 11.30 UK time – we’ll be admitting another round of participants into the beta of the forthcoming new Symbian developer website, with its rich set of forums, wikis, source code repositories, defect databases, and so on.
If you want to join in, here’s what you need to do. Tweet the following:
@symbiandevco give me #symbian beta access!
Don’t forget the # mark! And be sure to tweet before 11.30 UK time this morning!
Join and develop with us … but be careful, we are listening 
Quick comment regarding this blog post, it showed up in my RSS reader as a summary versus the full article.
Can you make some desktop backgrounds available based on the background pic you used for @symbiandevco ?
That background is nice, I like the idea James.
Symbian is on a new role now. Its almost like the underdog in training for a heavyweight bout. Samsung is having new interest in taking the world by storm with many platforms: S60/Symbian, Android, WinMo.
Lee,
I totally got the Dr. Zeus! I don’t think the developer crowd did. I’ll hopefully get time out of work and from playing with the kids setting up a new pc tomorrow night to blog about …
“Oh the places you’ll go!” I thought ALL developers had this read to them as babies because it suits their hunger, their imagination and ability to code new refined apps so well.
This is incredibly unique that a new OS creation & refinement is interactive with the community!
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I second Stefan’s comment; please revert from summaries to showing the full posts in RSS. Thanks!
Hi Hugo, Stefan,
Sorry, I wasn’t aware of anything having changed at our end. But I’ve looked into the WordPress settings and found the one that controls this behaviour.
I’ve now changed it, from “For each article in a feed, show Summary” to “For each article in a feed, show Full text”.
Hopefully this won’t raise issues for other people who are receiving this feed.
// David W.