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Originally Posted by tekki View Post
I have seen quite a lot of discussion about direction of maemo.org and I thought I would pitch in.

My proposal is simple:

* Make a task force to submit and maintain OBS support for Diablo and Fremantle. That would then be contributed to apps.formeego.org, providing a direction for Extras and autobuilder. If Harmattan support already exists, D and F support cant be difficult
* Make a task force for maintaining a modern kernel for N8x0 devices. 770 is a lost cause due to binary wifi driver
** This enables all sorts of opportunities for these devices. If asked, I am convinced builds for let's say MeeGo of closed source binaries can happen.
* Stop caring about a codebase (Maemo) that is ancient, unmaintained and too heavy to upkeep legally, hosting wise, etc and ridden with nonredistributable closed source. This includes Hildon stack which is really difficult to recreate (see failure of Mer) and even those who got 50k EUR from Nokia to do something about Hildon does not provide a path for applications to rebuild on, making it useless for maemo.org.
* Propose people to base efforts for N900 on the MeeGo hardware adaptation. UI can be the CommunityEdition one or one made by maemo.org community. The hw adaptation team is maintaining the device near parts and not going away. If we dont call our product MeeGo we can do whatever we want with it. We can even be seperate from the MeeGo project if we so desire. But the code base is fine and well functioning for our devices, and open source.

The maemo.org spirit is to do exciting things with our devices. Let us innovate, not get stuck in the past.

Your thoughts on my tangible proposal?
It seems that http://cordiahd.org/ shares the basic principles you've stated above, except they don't mention N810/Diablo. I think we should try to somehow coordinate with them and ask for N800/N810 inclusion.

If system base will work equally good. The problem remains with GUI (Nokia has claimed that freemantle was just ot heavy on resources), and possible web browser, since N810 has only 128M of RAM.

Maybe we can think about creating a really lightweighted GUI, on order to save as much memory for applications as possible.

See: http://cordiahd.org/os/about

Last edited by momcilo; 2011-08-12 at 07:24.
 

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