Воскресенье, 26 октября 2014, Nokia и Hildon Foundation объявили о заключении соглашения. В дополнение к передаче сайта maemo.org, Hildon Foundation получила от Nokia бренд "Maemo". Тем не менее, Nokia N900 и Nokia N9 остаются под крылом Microsoft, также как поддержка, гарантия и т.д...

Dear Hildon Foundation,

We can talk on a regular basis and we can form a friendship. But talking and claiming friendship is easy – however friendship is also about doing activities together to keep things alive – and sometimes take part in your friend’s crazy ideas. And to be honest and straightforward with advice from one another.

We are today participating in the openly developed and open source Mer and Nemo Mobile projects which includes sponsoring parts of their operational budgets. These projects have very small budgets and have based their operations around being able to do big things, with small resources, like a startup or community would – and not only with contributions from just Jolla.

For what we want to create and the world to come with Jolla and Sailfish – these projects are where you would want to be participating, to be in the front seat of what’s to come. Places to be true pioneers.

We want to do things in an unlike way as compared to those of your former friends ever have done. It’s the future we want to create – together with all of you.

With best regards,
Jolla

Dear Jolla,

Happy New Year! And, congratulations on your successful launch in November. We were all watching in hopeful anticipation and were pleasantly surprised. You are doing things that many of us never thought possible.

Like Jolla’s open ecosystem, Hildon Foundation has also been born as the only fully incorporated, non-profit organization with a mission to promote open source software derived from Maemo. So, naturally, it makes sense that our organizations should cooperate with each other. Hopefully, you won’t mind that we’re publishing this as an “open letter” on our blog (http://hildonfoundation.org/open-letter … -to-jolla/) in the hopes that a greater community dialog will occur. If you would like us to conduct any of our conversations privately, just let us know.

As some of you are aware, the Hildon Foundation finds itself in quite a difficult spot at this new year with the impending departure of Nokia. Not only are we gaining full control of the maemo.org infrastructure (housing, developing, and supporting related open source software), and receiving pleas from N9/950 users who need a new space for community and support, but we are also taking over all financial responsibilities. Thankfully, after our initial fundraising effort, we have received over $2,000.00 US from our gracious community members. But, we need more.

In fact, we are now in the process of finding willing sponsors of all types to help fund our open software ecosystem. This is why we’re writing to you. We would like you to consider sponsoring or working with Hildon Foundation in some way. In particular, we would also like to open the community venue for Sailfish OS.

In our eyes, it would be hard to deny that the Hildon Foundation would be a beneficial advocate for Jolla. Jolla is special to us. In essence, you are Maemo’s sister. And, in all honesty, we would like to support you. In fact, we have been quite supportive to many projects and initiatives over the years based on these “gifts” (both downstream and upstream).

Some examples of the work that has been done over the past years include:

• Very intensive Google Summer of Code application development

• Three successful Coding Competitions

• Extensive progress in CSSU development

• Over 100 million software downloads

• Unified development efforts for much open source software (Linux, Mozilla, Debian, etc.)

• An Extras repository full of QA tested community applications

• Crowd-sourced brainstorming of all types

• Major global conferences (under Nokia’s sponsorship)

• Developer Device programs

• Local meetups and hackfests

• General community evangelism

• Etc.

Still, the track record doesn’t address the current challenges or pay the bills. We would welcome discussion about a relationship between our organizations… If anything, we would like to form a friendship. If Jolla would be willing to become a sponsor and aid us in promoting the open source software aspects of Jolla and Sailfish — or, possibly even foot the bill — we would offer valuable community support to Jolla. In fact, we see a huge possibility of the Hildon Foundation becoming a part of the Jolla ecosystem or Sailfish Alliance itself.

Thank you for considering this suggestion of formal cooperation. Regardless of the outcome, we wish Jolla nothing but success, for this year and for the unforeseeable future.

Best Regards,
The Hildon Foundation

Уже объявлено, что Jolla будет участвовать в важном мероприятии Slush в Хельсинки, Финляндии, и это событие будет служить стартовой площадкой для их операционной системы Sailfish (Парусник) и пользовательского интерфейса Jolla. Однако, их первый смартфон все ещё засекречен и будет запущен в следующем месяце.

Мероприятие Slush в Хельсинки будет проведено 21 и 22 ноября и в части касающейся демонстрации Jolla будет проведено в 11:15 (9:15am по Гринвичу) на Главной Сцене. В дополнение к основному мероприятию, есть два дополнительных: UI сессия в 17:00-18:00 (3-4pm по Гринвичу) в среду и SDK сессия для разработчиков в 10:00-11:00 (8-9am по Гринвичу) в четверг. Для всех зрителей, которые не смогут присутствовать на этом событии, Slush организует трансляцию прямого видео через интернет, непосредственно всех проводимых мероприятий. Эти видео трансляции также будут доступны для офлайнового просмотра.