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Randy Arnold's Blog

Who am I?

Experienced product innovator and former Nokia quality engineer who was directly involved in the launch and support of Linux-powered mobile computers like the N800. 2011 Nokia Developer Champion, three-time maemo.org community council representative and current MeeGo community advocate, working on grassroots marketing process and the MeeGo community device program as well as other key community initiatives. Founder of Maemo Greeters and MeeGo Greeters, successful community self-help programs. Manages MeeGo Network DFW.

Writer for Tabula Crypticum on “best practices, random analyses and sober speculation”, the Intel AppUp community and MeeGo Community Office.

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Category: MeeGo

Microsoft + Nokia Babies: Hate at a Distance, Love Up Close

original source: http://www.pop.com.br/ Apologies to QML fans but I’m going to to extend the interruption of that series by at least one more article. Blame a cynical friend’s recent conversion to the Dark Side of mobile Microsoft . As regular readers know...

Nokia’s N9: An Unexpected Owner’s Review

source: conversations.nokia.com I didn’t expect to be able to say anything first-hand about the Nokia N9 . I really thought my semi-facetious post a while back would be pretty much it unless I came up with some other abstract commentary to inflict on you all. And I really...

My Derailed Journey Back to Nokia

This is a highly personal post so for those whose eyes roll or minds reel at the thought, click past this one and I promise more juicy tech stuff next. As regular readers know, I lost a great job with an awesome company in January of 2009. As of this past Monday I started a challenging...

Gary Birkett: A Community Heart

Some of us like to think that systems and data and processes are the bones, brains and blood of any venture. And for the most part that’s true. But what body can thrive without a heart? This isn’t just rhetorical. The question came up for me a few days ago when I received the...

Nokia’s Design for the Future: Focus on What Works

There’s been a crazy fog of speculation surrounding my previous employer for the past few years, and I’ll admit I’m guilty of contributing . Many of Nokia’s moves during that time have been unusual, counterproductive and even downright bewildering… so it’s...

Confessions of an APPathetic User

I’m going to confess something that’s likely to cost me Twitter followers, kill future career prospects and launch a mild Comment war: I’m not much of an app user. And I can’t understand those who are, either. Well, I can align with the casual user. The few...

Is S40 Nokia’s Future?

source: http://www.cellfanatic.com/ Nokia’s S40 operating system has long been relegated to non-multitasking offerings in its stable of devices. Simple to implement and use, it’s the ammunition for Nokia’s carpet-bomb-the-developing-world-with-cellphones strategy....

Nokia’s N9: Cool, Cruel and Unusual

source: http://swipe.nokia.com Unlike many friends and former Nokia colleagues, I have not had the pleasure of fondling a sexy new N9 so this won’t be a product review as much as a process and philosophy review. That means something a little less structured than usual and loaded...

Getting to MeeGo Conference May 2011

Yet another post before getting into actual MeeGo Conference coverage. I’ll share some logistics lessons in the hope that some will find them helpful, along with some related details. I’ve written on this subject before but there’s more and newer stuff to cover...

Mobile Computing: What’s in a Name?

source: maemo.nokia.com Smartphones ( aka “ converged mobile devices “ ) have been around in one form or another since 1992. The moniker itself has elicited snickers and outright derision, but the mobile industry grasped for a good description of where cell phones were headed...

Maemo is Dead… Long Live Maemo

Source: http://www.maemoit.org Before I launch into coverage of the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco this past week , I’d like to touch on a touchy and related issue: the future of Maemo . As most readers here are already aware, Maemo was Nokia’s enigmatic attempt at a...

What is the Future for Forum Nokia Champions?

Like many high-tech companies, Nokia’s success depends not only on its vast assembly of internal talent, but also on the numerous volunteer advocates and ambassadors of its solutions in the wild. To that end, Nokia formalizes recognition of top volunteers with its Forum Nokia Champion...

MIX11 Tuesday: The Start of a 72-hour Conversation

source: microsoft.com Warning: those with tl;dr allergy may want to skip this article. Tuesday morning at MIX11 began with a nice continental breakfast courtesy of Infragistics . During the meal I chatted with various people about Nokia and the mobile world in general. ...

Meeting up at MIX11

source: blogs.msdn.com This is going to seem odd coming on the heels of an article covering the 2011 Texas Linux Fest … but bear with me. When Forum Nokia informed its Champions that we would be granted free access to Microsoft’s 2011 MIX event , I greeted the email with...