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 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.

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See tasks, blueprints and proposals for the project