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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. | 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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* 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 | ||
* Encourage wider access to device capabilities through the Vendor Social Contract | * 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 | + | |
* Focus, harness and support community contributions to the platform | * Focus, harness and support community contributions to the platform | ||
* Encourage and ease migration of existing applications | * Encourage and ease migration of existing applications | ||
| - | * Support experimentation, | + | * Support experimentation, innovation and development |
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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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Read [[Mer/Documentation|Documentation]] / Development [[Mer/Status|Status]]. | Read [[Mer/Documentation|Documentation]] / Development [[Mer/Status|Status]]. | ||
| - | See [[/Tasks|tasks]], [[/Blueprints|blueprints]], [[/Proposals|proposals]] and [[/User Reactions|user reactions]] for the project.</div> | + | See [[/Tasks|tasks]], [[/Blueprints|blueprints]], [[/Proposals|proposals]] and [[/User Reactions|user reactions]] for the project.</div> |
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== What next? == | == What next? == | ||
Revision as of 20:41, 16 August 2011
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 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 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
From mer-chatter and planet.maemo.org:
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