Mer

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== [[/Goals|Former goals]] ==
== [[/Goals|Former goals]] ==
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Mer is now an inactive project, due to the introduction of the MeeGo (http://www.meego.com) project which shares a similar mission as Mer. Mer was a community research project into an open and openly developed Maemo platform.
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Mer is now an inactive project, due to the introduction of the MeeGo (http://www.meego.com) project which shares a similar mission as Mer. Mer was a community research project into [http://www.congregationbuilder.com church management software] an open and openly developed Maemo platform.
* Integrate the best solutions for a wide variety of small form-factor devices
* Integrate the best solutions for a wide variety of small form-factor devices
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* Encourage wider access to device capabilities through the Vendor Social Contract
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* Encourage wider access to device capabilities through the Vendor Social Contract
* Demonstrably provide an easy route to market for vendors
* Demonstrably provide an easy route to market for vendors
* Dramatically reduce costs to vendors of supporting EOL hardware
* Dramatically reduce costs to vendors of supporting EOL hardware
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* As much of Fremantle as we can get on the N8x0
* As much of Fremantle as we can get on the N8x0
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We're hanging out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net) if you would like to discuss Mer (here's a [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=Mer web based IRC client]) and you can follow all the chat on the [http://tinyurl.com/ngroq8 IRClog].
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We're hanging [http://www.aqua-gear.com/swim-goggles swimming goggles] out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net) if you would like to discuss Mer (here's a [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=Mer web based IRC client]) and you can follow all the chat on the [http://tinyurl.com/ngroq8 IRClog].
Read [[Mer/Documentation|Documentation]] / Development [[Mer/Status|Status]].
Read [[Mer/Documentation|Documentation]] / Development [[Mer/Status|Status]].

Revision as of 05:51, 22 July 2011

Mer
An open, community-led, Linux distribution for mobile devices

Former goals

Mer is now an inactive project, due to the introduction of the MeeGo (http://www.meego.com) project which shares a similar mission as Mer. Mer was a community research project into church management software an open and openly developed Maemo platform.

  • Integrate the best solutions for a wide variety of small form-factor devices
  • Encourage wider access to device capabilities through the Vendor Social Contract
  • Demonstrably provide an easy route to market for vendors
  • Dramatically reduce costs to vendors of supporting EOL hardware
  • Focus, harness and support community contributions to the platform
  • Encourage and ease migration of existing applications
  • Support experimentation, innovation and development

or, to put it another way:

  • As much of Fremantle as we can get on the N8x0

We're hanging swimming goggles out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net) if you would like to discuss Mer (here's a web based IRC client) and you can follow all the chat on the IRClog.

Read Documentation / Development Status.

See tasks, blueprints, proposals and user reactions for the project.

Latest activity

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