Mer: Difference between revisions

From Maemo Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
imported>jaffa
m Participants in Mer: Remove superfluous newline
imported>jaffa
New page design, copied from User:Jaffa/Sandbox/Mer_homepage
Line 1: Line 1:
__NOTOC__
__NOTOC__
[[image:Mer-logo.png|left]]
<div style="position: absolute; z-index: 0">
{|
<imagemap>Image:Mer-faded-background.png|631px
|'''Mer''' is a Linux distribution for mobile devices, based on the Maemo platform from Nokia. Mer goals include:
rect 0 0 0 0 [[Mer]]
desc none
</imagemap>
<div style="z-index: 3; position: absolute; top: 42px; left: 180px; color: #fff; font-style: italic; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 1.8em; width: 360px">An open, community-led, Linux distribution for mobile devices</div>
</div>


<div style="position: absolute; margin-top: 120px; margin-left: 18px; z-index: 4; margin-right: 4em">
<div style="margin-right: 10em; margin-bottom: 2em">
== Goals ==
*Improving and developing parts of Maemo that are of interest to the Maemo community.
*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.
*Making it easier to port existing desktop applications by hildonizing and adjusting them to the tablet form factor.
Line 10: Line 18:
*Making Maemo a generic platform for all tablet devices, including non-Nokia ones.
*Making Maemo a generic platform for all tablet devices, including non-Nokia ones.
*Focusing Maemo community efforts in platform-related areas
*Focusing Maemo community efforts in platform-related areas
|}
</div>


== Releases ==
<div style="float: right; clear: both; width: 35%">
If you want to download a Mer release - see [[Mer/Releases|Mer Releases]], latest is [[Mer/Releases/0.6|Mer 0.6]].
== Latest activity ==
 
From [http://jaiku.com/channel/mer #mer on Jaiku]:
== Mission ==
<rss title="off" desc="off" number="10" time="3600">http://jaiku.com/channel/mer/feed/rss</rss>
Mer platform development will be done in the open, with public SCM repository, bugtrackers, and Wiki-based blueprint discussion.
</div>


We should stop seeing the tablets as strictly under-powered embedded systems, and see them for what they really are: powerful, power-efficient, economical handheld computers.
<div style="float: left; clear: left; width: 60%; border-right: 1px solid #bbb; padding-right: 2em">
== What next? ==
<div style="float: left"><imagemap>Image:Mer-button-about.png|255px
rect 0 0 255 106 [[Mer/About]]
desc none</imagemap></div>
<div style="float: left"><imagemap>Image:Mer-button-download.png|255px
rect 0 0 255 106 [[Mer/Releases]]
desc none</imagemap></div>
<div style="float: left"><imagemap>Image:Mer-button-people.png|255px
rect 0 0 255 106 [[Mer/People]]
desc none</imagemap></div>
<div style="float: left"><imagemap>Image:Mer-button-development.png|255px
rect 0 0 255 106 [[Mer/Sprints]]
desc none</imagemap></div>
</div>


Historically, the Mer platform came from a discussion on [[Maemo_Reconstructed|reconstructing Maemo]] and a desire to make a proof of concept system of the thoughts in this proposal (M-R PoC), which developed into Mer after realization that it was a viable direction of development.
</div>
 
<div style="height: 70em">&nbsp;</div>
== Get Involved ==
If you would like to participate in and contribute to Mer - participate in the [[Mer/Sprints|Mer Sprints]] - current one is [[Mer/Sprints/0.7|Mer Sprint 0.7]] and read the [[Mer/Documentation|Mer Documentation]]
 
=== Participants in Mer ===
{{main|Mer/People}}
The list of people committed to helping deliver, test and promote Mer has been moved to its own page.
 
== Latest Activity ==
From [http://jaiku.com/channel/mer #mer on Jaiku]:
<rss title="off" desc="off" number="10">http://jaiku.com/channel/mer/feed/rss</rss>

Revision as of 19:58, 23 January 2009

Mer
An open, community-led, Linux distribution for mobile devices

Goals

  • 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

Latest activity

From #mer on Jaiku: <rss title="off" desc="off" number="10" time="3600">http://jaiku.com/channel/mer/feed/rss</rss>

What next?

Mer/About
Mer/Releases
Mer/People
Mer/Sprints