The Symbian Foundation today announced the start of its beta site test programme. The site includes a full developer offering which includes platform release information, council charters, wikis, forums as well as access to the SDK, SCM (Mercurial), Bugzilla, tools, documents and FAQs.
Since the membership programme first opened in Februray, 81 companies are said to have applied for membership and are either going through the formal process or have become members, 50 of which are first time endorsers.
Members will be entitled to the following, royalty free:
– to license, modify and distribute source code
– to gain access to council meeting plans and deliverables
– to participate in Working Groups & annual member meetings
– be eligible for Board and Council seats
– to foundation support incl. branding, marketing, legal, and business development
"We're excited to be working with our members and community friends on the public launch of our beta site – their feedback is extremely important in helping us evolve and develop our offering," said Foundation Executive Director, Lee M. Williams. "With partners already contributing projects to the platform, members continuously showing their support, and the launch of our new beta site, we're really excited about the next steps."