I'm digesting this blog post and comments about the community promoted préDevCamp and its clash with Palm and the Pre official launch: http://blog.gallucci.net/2009/05/pal...nt-get-it.html

And the continuation: http://predevcamp.org/2009/05/29/big...om-predevcamp/

Every company and every community has its own story and I'm not interested in nailing this one around the Pre launch. But it's worth looking at the elements exposed in this blog post (and other related you might have, please share) to see what we (the Maemo community and Nokia) are doing right or wrong, and what could or should be improved.

We have some elements in common to compare, and some differences that make the comparisons not 100% translatable: there is a Maemo 5 launch without a date announced, there is a Maemo Summit with a date decided but not necessarely linked to the launch, there is a possibility to involve some community developers and representatives in the launch but that would involve an NDA at least to keep the date confidential...

Opinions? Ideas? Not only for now this case of Maemo 5, generic ideas on how to collaborate more and better around public launches and developer camps are also very much appreciated.