In this wide ranging video Julien Fourgeaud talks about his role at the Symbian Foundation (Road Map and Propositions) and shares some possible future directions for the platform. As a connected and customisable embedded system the platform has a great deal of potential. Opening up the platform, via the EPL release, adds a great deal of flexibility, has important cost implications and will enable the community to take the platform in new directions.
Key points
Explaining a technology road-map through experiences (i.e. what does it enable) helps the market to better understand the potential of the Symbian platform.
The Symbian Foundation will go where the community want to go (i.e. community driven through usage scenarios and contributions).
As a connected embedded system, with the capability to customise from the nano-kernel upwards, the Symbian Platform has a great deal of flexibility and there are numerous potential areas for expansion.
By being open (EPL'd etc.) it is much more likely that the community will come up with new uses.
Symbian has more enablers than any other platform (reflecting its maturity) and this continues to be re-inforced through projects such as SHAI.
Look out for the passionate answer to 'what is it like to work for the Symbian Foundation?' question at the end of the video (04:47)!
