On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 17:51, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer<mic...@vanille-media.de> wrote: > Braunschweig, Germany, 2009-07-29. For immediate release. > > The freesmartphone.org core-team founds a BGB company to facilitate > the further development of free and open source middleware for > Linux-based mobile systems: "Lauer, Lübbe, Schmidt, Willmann, > freesmartphone.org GbR". > > The core-team members of the freesmartphone.org project today announced > the founding of a legal entity offering consulting, training, and > implementation services around the freesmartphone.org middleware > platform, also known as FSO[1]. > > "We now have a single point of contact for both commercial and > non-commercial parties who want to use our services to create compelling > solutions. This is of interest for groups or individuals creating new > devices or freeing existing devices ("anti-vendor-ports") and who > decided to incorporate the FSO middleware", says Dr. Michael Lauer, > founder of the FSO project. "If you care about the further development > of this platform or if you need guidance for tailoring or customizing > the FSO middleware, contact us via E-Mail at > coret...@freesmartphone.org". > > With todays' smartphones evolving into ubiquituous companions, a gap has > emerged between widely used FOSS components like the Linux kernel and > core system libraries on one side, and end-user applications on the > other side. The lack of a complete free mobile software stack hinders > innovation and leads to reinventing proprietary solutions for services > middleware. > > FSO's mission is to close this gap by designing and developing solid > middleware for mobile systems in an open fashion; this refers to not > only publishing source code under open source licenses, but also to > sharing the whole design and development process with the community and > giving both commercial and non-commercial entities a way to co-drive and > steer the process. > > Built on top of the Linux kernel, FSO implements high level services for > mobile application development, accessible via the DBus interprocess > communication standard. Leveraging the FSO APIs allows the developer to > concentrate on solving application domain problems, such as business > logic and presentation of data, without having to worry about the device > specifics and low level details, such as how to access resources, > telephony, location awareness, data storage, etc. > > About freesmartphone.org: > Previously funded by Openmoko Inc, freesmartphone.org is a collaboration > platform for open source and open discussion software projects working > on interoperability and shared technology for Linux-based smartphones. > freesmartphone.org operates on the services layer (middleware) and > offers APIs and reference implementations that support modern > interconnected mobile devices. To provide reference solutions, > freesmartphone.org works closely together with various device-specific > communities such as the Openmoko, OpenEZX, and HTC-Linux groups. The FSO > team honours and bases on specifications and software created by the > freedesktop.org community. > > [1] http://www.freesmartphone.org
Could I hire you to work on opimd? :D But seriously - I hope some people or companies will be really interested in FSO and thus development will be faster. Even if neighter frameworkd nor cornucopia will be popular, I hope freesmartphone.org specification will live long. And I really hope you guys will be able to work on FSO as your primary job :) -- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak dos _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community