As the author of this blog, I am no longer employed by the Symbian Foundation, and this blog is mothballed – it is no longer in active use.

The questions and hypotheses you raise are good, but I cannot reply on behalf of the Symbian Foundation – sorry!

As you mention, there’s a great deal of information on the official Symbian website, that can answer your questions. There you’ll find, for example, roadmaps for different technology domains, and schedules (with topics) for future Council meetings.

Our names are Jesus Mascareno, we are Master student in Linköping University
in Sweden, our study is on coordination within business platforms, this subject has
been largely one of the most important issues in Technology Platforms,
several studies on this issue presents the alternative of having a strong
platform leader who coordinates the rest of the firms and enables innovation
in the platform (Intel in the PC platform) but as we will argue, this
strategy is unilateral and does not unleash innovation’s full potential.
Contrary to this view, our hypothesis is that coordinated innovation in a
complex platform can reach its full potential when actors set mechanisms to
interact in equal terms, setting a common goal and expanding the innovation
efforts. In order to probe this hypothesis and identify the key issues in
this type of platforms we intend to present Symbian Foundation as
an successful example of coordination within platforms. Your website is full
of information, however we would like to ask you the following questions:

Does the foundation informs of the future developments within Symbian?
What communication mechanisms or tools (meetings, mails, phone calls, etc)
does the foundation use to coordinate efforts with all the members?
How does the work is divided to carry out the developments?
Is there an annual meeting of the foundation to review the development of
the platform?

Thanks in advance for your time

Best Regards
Jesus/Imra

– Michael V.

… but with a bit more reflection, I think that these are just two ends of a spectrum, not such a clear distinction. There are certainly individuals who routinely misconstrue things, sometimes as nastily as the worst of the press. And more insightful reporters (a few remaining anyway) who don’t oversimplify and sensationalize every discussion they hear about. And a whole range in between.