[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] RFC: Qtopia Nokia N770 (maemo) porting layer

[From: Holger Freyther]

Hi Pals, Nokia,

I would be intersted in leading the development of a LGPL/BSD licensed
porting layer of the Qtopia platform for the maemo platform.

Why such a layer is good:
	-Existing applications can be utilized for Maemo by easily migrating
	 them to use osso/hildon technology
	-More applications will make hildon/osso more attractive
	-Give developers the choiche to target any platform easily
	-Maemo is a great piece of Free Software and should be supported

How such a port would look like:
	-We would use Qt2/X11 and make it look like the maemo gui
	-We would implement libqpe,libqtopia, libqtopia1, libqtopiapim
           using osso, hildon and Qt2
	-In the future we should use Qt4 but that would require more porting
          of the applications.

What we need:
	-Legal counseling if we can do a clean room implementations and
          how it should look like.
	-Sponsors:
		-People Donating Time to this project
		-People/Companies Donating Money to this project allowing
		people to work on it during office hours (not for myself though)
		-People writing tests and setting up a QA infrastructure
		-People Testing our Work
		-People porting/verifying application work
		-People enjoying using maemo

How should we proceed:
	-We should gather enough people to start this project
	-We should have enough information to start the clean room
          implementation.
	-We should quantify which classes are mostly needed to port
          most of the apps.


if you are interested please email me

	regards holger