Following on from his 'clean sheet of paper' ideas for Symbian's Calendar, Ewan looks at the first steps of what's needed to take such thoughts through to inclusion in official Symbian Foundation code. Essentially, the Ideas board at the Earls Court show is now a fully functioning social network, dedicated to bringing the best ideas through to implementation.
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Speaking for the moderator team at ideas.symbian, thanks for this piece. It's good to hear and read of someone taking the steps to figure out how to make an idea happen.
As you state in this piece though, there are a ton of small and large, high level and detailed ideas - and not just for the calendar, but for the entire system. We've been working pretty hard to keep ideas from sprawling, and to soke degree are limited by the choice in the cms, but also by the quality of ideas. There's a lot of discussion around all ideas, and some are easier than others.
In terms of the expert review, we have a panel of experts to which are assigned ideas at that stage. And then after further refinement and discussion, things can move forward. Unfortunately, not every idea can be back-ported to older devices, but all ideas can sbe applied forward (many have and are). The more people talk on these ideas, the easier it is to get licensees to step up to the plate in making sure they appear on their devices. After that, Symbian as platform gets fun for all.
Can't you just submit an "Agenda" app idea in the N8 "Make My App" contest, Ewan, and we all vote for it to be implemented? How's that for a shortcut?