Maemo Community, Standing on the shoulders of giants

The Maemo community built up around the Nokia Internet Tablets has grown steadily over the last 6 years.

Over 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.

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.