Cocreation at Nokia Maemo Summit

Standing on each-others’ shoulders

Maemo – at the risk of stating the obvious -is Nokia’s Linux-based operating system, developed by a global community of open source programmers and enthusiasts. The Maemo community is independent from Nokia and is run by its own peer-elected council. All future high-end Nokia devices (Like the new N900 out soon) will run on Maemo, which means that users will be able to program, develop and share applications freely: a great perspective!

This weekend, the Maemo community organised its third annual conference at Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek. Parallel to the ‘regular’ conference program, Fronteer Strategy was asked to develop a co-creative development process on the topic of ‘Creativity on the Move’.

Based on our ’5 guiding principles’ (see Martijn’s white paper), we designed a ‘bespoke’ co-creation cycle to engage the entire Maemo community, Nokia developers and outside experts within the conference’s time-frame.

(1) First of all, discussion about the topic was held among the Maemo community’s 16000 members over the last two weeks. Then (2) we selected key community members and ‘lead users’ of mobile creativity (like VJ’s, film makers and hackers) to join a Nokia team in (3)  a ‘ROOFTOP’ co-creation session, last Thursday (see the video HERE SOON). The outputs of this session were (4)  posted onto the Maemo.org platform for input and (5) presented live at the conference (this morning) after which everyone was (6) invited to contribute their ideas and thoughts. Concept development will continue online (7) and (8) at the central conference hall tomorrow; supported by visualisers who can bring to life usage cases and related ideas on-the-spot.

Be sure to check out the work (and contribute to it!) http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=342499#post342499

Next step after that will be (9) to bring all the inputs together and present the concepts back to the Maemo community for further actual realisation…

Stay tuned to this blog for further updates!