On Oct 1, 2011, at 2:28 PM, ext Gabriel Beddingfield wrote:
> On 09/29/2011 10:20 AM, Nasa wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 1) Concentrate on the handset and *ONLY* on it from now onward. "Do
>>> one thing and do it best (tm)".
>>>
>>
>> Why would you exclude 4/5 of the people involved in the meego project?
>> Handsets weren't even the largest part of the project...
>
> Fine... pick IVI. Pick *something*.
>
> MeeGo's complexity ({Netbook,Handset,IVI,Tablet} x {i586,armv7} x
> {MeeGoCompliance,PlatformCompliance,DeviceCompliance}) was apparently too
> much to bear even with corporate sponsorship. If you continue as a community
> project, it's important to narrow this down in order to succeed.
Just as my personal opinion as OSS hacker that has nothing to do with my
employer.
Let's first divide MeeGo as horizontal layers.
1- Mobile Qt / QtQuick /QtQuick based applications
2- Mobile UX
3- Foundation layers ( Linux kernel and most of middleware)
1, Mobile Qt apps, there will be big future and Intel decision did not change
anything, there is community that would like to develop these apps and there
are many platforms able to run them,MeeGo from MeeGo project , MeeGo
Harmattan/N9, Symbian, Android, Tizen and Nokia's "Next Billion" project.
having community for mobile Qt development together is good reason to be
existing.
2. MeeGo offers only full Open Source Mobile UX. Tizen don't need it but
OpenSuse proposal was interesting. using MeeGo UX, we could make mobile
distros based on OpenSuse, Ubuntu and others. I don't see any reason continue
Netbook, there are already Ubuntu etc and MeeGo has very little to offer. IVI
is car manufacturer driven, if they are interested and continues sponsor MeeGo,
it is OK. Handsets, full open handsets that allow installing your own OS are
rare, so it is relatively small field. Tablets I see best target for MeeGo.
Intel abandoned MeeGo and they were driving tablet, we can make better tablet
UX based on MeeGo handset UX. Combining forces with other Linux distros we can
make competitive alternative distro for tablets.
3- In this area, I don't see any reason duplicate work that ids already done
with other distros.
We can think that 1, Mobile Qt apps will be there and there will be lot of
developers doing it. MeeGo and Maemo were already Mobile app developers
community so that we can still be. Good question is even closer relation with
KDE community.
As my personal opinion we should have OSS distro for tablets as alternative. In
case I would have x86 tablet, I won't even consider Windows7 or even Windows8.
In this area we have clear common interest with desktop linux distros. They
have everything else but they are lacking mobile UX and MeeGo is only one that
can offer it. When MeeGo was corporate driven and building full distro, it did
not need them but as OSS project there are common interests.
Kate
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