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Membership now open for the Symbian Foundation

2 replies · 2,118 views · Started 17 February 2009

As you know, the Symbian Foundation is all about Open Source, meaning that anyone, from the individual to the big company, can get involved with working on the OS source code. Membership is now open, and anyone interested in the process for becoming a member of the Symbian Foundation can now download and view the relevant set of documents here. For more information, see also David Wood's blog entry on the subject.

Read on in the full article.

Hm, looks like you cannot join as an individual or non-corporation right now:

"Membership of the Symbian Foundation is available to organizations meeting the following criteria:
1.) Must be an incorporated company or organization. Individuals can not become a Member."

Too bad.

Ole

Ahaa... David Wood has posted an explanation on his blog:

"Individuals will be able to interact with many aspects of the Symbian Foundation website and the Symbian Platform code, without needing to belong to an organisation that is a member of the Symbian Foundation.

For example, all code packages that are released under the open source Eclipse Public Licence will (of course) be accessible to all individuals. Also, many of the forums hosted on the website will be publicly accessible."