Now that Nokia has decided to open source the Symbian OS surely we can expect developers to start churning out innovative and free apps that will knock the mobile world sideways?
Well, no. Any open source project that has ever really worked has done so on the back of a solid community of developers and users. The trick now is to draw in coders who might be a bit sceptical about jumping in bed with Nokia when they could be getting down and dirty with the cooler-sounding Android.
To help break the ice, Nokia is sponsoring a developers expo called Open Source Goes Mobile.
Cannily scheduled alongside the august LinuxWorld Expo in San Franciso, OSGM will offer training sessions in porting software to the Symbian platform, discussion about development methods and languages and lots of info from Nokia about their plans for the OS.
Attendees will also receive developer kits containing sample code, SDKs and other tools as well as a one day pass to LinuxWorld.
