*Improving and developing parts of Maemo that are of interest to the Maemo community.
*Making it easier to port existing desktop applications by hildonizing and adjusting them to the tablet form factor.
*Encouraging third party experimentation and development.
*Supporting tablet hardware no longer receiving updated OS software by Nokia.
*Making Maemo a generic platform for all tablet devices, including non-Nokia ones.
*Focusing Maemo community efforts in platform-related areas
We're hanging out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net), if you would like to discuss Mer (use www.mibbit.com if you don't have a IRC client).
Please visit http://www.merproject.org to learn more about these news.
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We're hanging out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net) if you would like to discuss Mer (here's a [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=Mer web based IRC client])