I am not a Qt and C++ fan. And the merger is good news as long as it does not effect Clutter and Mx development. I should be able to develop netbook applications based on the two, not Qt.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Sousou, Imad <imad.sou...@intel.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone > > I'm sure you've heard the news: Moblin and maemo are merging! We are taking > the best pieces from these two open source projects and are creating the > MeeGo software platform. Both teams have worked for a long time to support > the needs of the mobile user experience - and MeeGo will make this even > better. We want it to be fun, focused, flexible, technically challenging and > ultimately, something that can change the world. > > We all use mobile devices every day. The power and capability of handhelds > has reached astounding levels - netbooks have been a runaway success - and > connected TVs, tablets, in-vehicle infotainment, and media phones are fast > growing new markets for devices with unheard of performance. Our goal is to > develop the best software to go with those devices. The teams behind maemo > and Moblin have plenty of experience and even more ideas on how to make > things better - and together we will create something special. > > So what does this mean for Moblin and its community? It's a huge > opportunity. There are some changes (and those are always scary), but I > think they are all for the better. Things will quickly shift to the new > site, but from a technology point of view, migrations should be smooth. > Especially if you are an application developer; everything you have done so > far should continue to work - and with Qt and its development environment > there are even more and easier options available to develop new and exciting > apps for MeeGo. > > The MeeGo website<http://meego.com> is still evolving - you'll run into a > few "coming soon" pages as we pull all the content together and get things > ready for our first project release in the second quarter. But there's > already a lot to see - and a community to join! Please take a look - and > come back often as we approach that first release. > > We really want to hear from you. Be in on IRC, on our developer mailing > list, or through bugzilla. MeeGo is an open project and it will be > successful through its developer community. It's my personal goal to make > sure that we can all together be successful. And have fun. > > I invite you to join us at meego.com<http://meego.com>. > > Imad Sousou > > Director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center > (and now also co-chair of the MeeGo steering group) > > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > dev@moblin.org > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > -- Veli Sungutay http://www.lyciasoft.com _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List dev@moblin.org To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
