Interesting announcement, Are there any technical details on what these changes actually mean for the respective platforms.
This one announcement covers the most amount of topics for a flamewar that I've seen for a long time. So the media reactions will be very interesting. On 15 Feb 2010, at 11:03, Sousou, Imad 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 _______________________________________________ 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
