451 CAOS reports
from the Symbian Smartphone Show with an eye toward the upcoming
open-source release of the Symbian code. “As David Rivas noted, the
biggest risk was in setting up the organisation to manage the project
itself. He noted that the employees of foundation members will be
responsible for development and engineering but that employees of the
foundation itself will not get involved in development. Foundation
employees (who will number 100-150) will be responsible for admin,
foundation management, support, marketing and software management and will
corral the development teams to create the roadmap without getting involved
in directing development projects themselves.” It’s a rare free
software project which requires over 100 non-developers to support it.