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== Goals ==
== Goals ==
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*Improving and developing parts of Maemo that are of interest to the Maemo community.
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* Integrate the best solutions for a wide variety of small form-factor devices
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*Making it easier to port existing desktop applications by hildonizing and adjusting them to the tablet form factor.
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* Encourage wider access to device capabilities through the Vendor Social Contract
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*Encouraging third party experimentation and development.
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* Demonstrably provide an easy route to market for vendors
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*Supporting tablet hardware no longer receiving updated OS software by Nokia.
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* Dramatically reduce costs to vendors of supporting EOL hardware
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*Making Maemo a generic platform for all tablet devices, including non-Nokia ones.
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* Focus, harness and support community contributions to the platform
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*Focusing Maemo community efforts in platform-related areas
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* Encourage and ease migration of existing applications
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* Support experimentation, innovation and development
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We're hanging out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net), if you would like to discuss Mer (use www.mibbit.com if you don't have a IRC client).
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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 [[IRC|web based IRC client]]).
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== Latest activity ==
== Latest activity ==
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Revision as of 09:21, 25 June 2009

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

Goals

  • 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

We're hanging out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net) if you would like to discuss Mer (here's a web based IRC client).

Latest activity

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From mer-chatter and planet.maemo.org:

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What next?

About: Learn more about Mer, this new Linux/Gnu distribution, and its history.
Download: Get the latest release of Mer on your device or PC.
People: Join the Mer community, and find out who’s already involved.
Development: Enhance Mer itself, and develop applications.
 
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