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- Title
- Maemo Community, Standing on the shoulders of giants.
- Summary
- The Maemo community built up around the Nokia Internet Tablets has grown steadily over the last 6 years.
- 25,000 developers have been involved in the community at different stages creating a wealth of products and knowledge, ranging from little hacks that soothed an itch, to full-blown games, kernel modules and even quality assurance procedures.
- This grand ecosystem has worked steadily to produce a rock solid platform capable of supporting every usecase possible with some of the most passionate developers on the planet.
- The Fremantle development catalog contains over 5000 open source applications developed over time by our eager hackers and developers.
- Abstract
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- It had a problem however, it was a limited and introspective community. Limited to its own devices, with no takeup from other manufacturers, due to the closed dependencies and issues with being fixed on a single stack.
- A lot of very skillful people have pondered this problem for a long time.
- Enter Meego, slick, shiny, cross platform and fully supported.
- A veritable Prince Charming offering to cure all the deficiencies.
- Those improvements come at a price however, that price being having to rebuild all applications from scratch in Qt.
- From inception, Maemo was based around the GTK toolkit, and to date the greater majority of applications have been written in it.
- Finding a pathway to bring these applications into Meego is a difficult and challenging task and will involve collaboration and planning from numerous levels.
- This planning is underway at the moment and Maemo and Meego team members are working together to port the first shining light examples of GTK/Hildon applications within the handset image.
- Combined with the lessons learned in community builds of the Hildon libraries and the skilled OBS hackers we believe its possible to achieve this task.
- Many great Maemo applications will hopefully become available on your Meego handset devices for your continued enjoyment.
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