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

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About

• 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

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Releases

If you want to download a Mer release - see Mer Releases, latest is Mer 0.6.

Mission

Mer platform development will be done in the open, with public SCM repository, bugtrackers, and Wiki-based blueprint discussion.

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.

Historically, the Mer platform came from a discussion on 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.

Get Involved

If you would like to participate in and contribute to Mer - participate in the Mer Sprints - current one is Mer Sprint 0.7 and read the Mer Documentation

Participants in Mer

(Please read the Mer Sprints wiki page instead of editing this table, if you would like to participate)

Nickname	Name	Affiliation (employer) or occupation	Registered since	Location	Areas of interest
Stskeeps	Carsten V. Munk	Centre for Pervasive Healthcare, University of Aarhus. MSc. comp.sci. student	Beginning	Aarhus, Denmark	Community, genericity of mobile platform.
Jaffa	Andrew Flegg	Systems' architect	2009-01-18	UK	Upstream (Ubuntu/Maemo) compatibility, user-experience
GeneralAntilles	Ryan Abel	Student	2009-01-22	US	Public relations, documentation, maemo.org infrastructure
Andrewfblack	Andrew F. Black	Radiation Protection Technician	2009-01-22	Alabama, US	Theme Development
qwerty12	Faheem Pervez	Student	2009-01-22	London, UK	Mer packager.