[maemo-developers] Mer Project bootstrapping meeting, 14 Dec '08, 20:00 UTC

[From: Carsten V. Munk]

On the 14th of December 2008, at 20:00-22:00 UTC, we're planning on 
having a bootstrapping meeting for the Mer Project.
This will take place in  #maemo-meeting on IRC, at irc.freenode.net. If 
you don't have an IRC client, you can use
http://mibbit.com/chat/ (select IRC: FreeNode and #maemo-meeting as channel)

The Mer platform is a Linux distribution for mobile devices based on the 
Maemo platform from Nokia. Mer goals include:

* Improving and developing parts of Maemo that are of interest to the 
Maemo community.
* Making it easier to port existing desktop applications by hildonizing 
and adjusting them to the tablet form factor.
* Encouraging third party experimentation and development.
* Supporting outdated tablet hardware no longer supported by Nokia.
* Making Maemo a generic platform for all tablet devices, including 
non-Nokia ones.
* Stop seeing the tablets as strictly under-powered embedded systems, 
and see them for what they really are: powerful, power-efficient, 
economical handheld computers.

Mer platform development will be done in the open, with public VCS 
repositories, bugtrackers, and Wiki-based blueprint discussion.

The purpose of the meeting is to get the project started, discuss our 
short and long term goals, and get organized.

We have a blueprint on http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer_Blueprint_New which 
will serve as basis for the discussion - it is not a final blueprint
for the project. The blueprint includes initial sketches for teams and 
areas that the project will cover, and if you have any interest in
contributing to the Mer project in one or more of these areas, feel free 
to participate.

You don't have to be an expert or a developer - everyone who is willing 
to help out is welcome :) We will also need some participants to pioneer 
as initial team leaders,
to get the project started. Participation in the project will be open, 
and presence at the bootstrapping meeting is not a requirement.

The agenda of the meeting, will be introductions at first and indicating 
which areas you have interest in contributing to, and then discussion on 
how to get the project going.
The logs will be made available after the meeting has ended. It is the 
goal that the project will officially start in January 2009, but before 
that can happen infrastructure,
developer tools and organization needs to be in place.

We have already done some initial discovery work regarding Mer in 
previous iterations, screenshots of our alpha can be seen at 
http://picasaweb.google.com/meizirkki/NokiaN810Mer
and http://trac.tspre.org/meiz/ .

Hope to see there,
/Carsten V. Munk