[Meego To N900 Status Update] Hardware adaptation for Meegoproject goes open Tweet

Harri Hakulinen, Nokia project lead of ” MeeGo to N900″ said “Nokia N900 will dual-boot MeeGo and Maemo 5” as we reported earlier. Now he gives us another news that the “N900 Hardware adaptation for Meegoproject goes open ”

Harri Hakulinen, Nokia project lead of ” MeeGo to N900″ said

Hello Meego’s,

As indicated in my previous mail about “MeeGo for N900″ status, we were planning to open up our MeeGo work around N900. Now I am happy to announce, that we are there ;)

First, to make it absolute clear for everybody: This is about open MeeGo adaptation to N900 device.
Like any other MeeGo project, it is open source project for all applicaple purposes, and does NOT directly have links to any potential Nokia product or potential product plans. So, based on this or any other of my posts, please do NOT start or continue speculation of upcoming Nokia MeeGo releases. That is practically not helpfull, and mostly only takes our time when we need to explain our words and actions in detail to various directions.

>From our part, we are trying to implement the open development model that has been discussed now so many times around MeeGo. On practical terms, we are trying to work based on proposal by Carsten Munk, see http://wiki.meego.com/Proposal_for_Best_Practices_for_working_in_a_MeeGo_team

We have already created some resources that will be used by the team, you can learn about those and the upcoming ones from http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900. We have IRC channel for realtime discussion, we will use meego-dev mailing list for normal discussions and announcements, and we will have Gitorius project for code.

We will evolve our practicies during the work, so if you are interested, stay tuned to those channels. I belive that soon we are also able to figure out, what is best way for community members to help us in development, and then effectively be part of the team.

I would also like to use this as opportunity to introduce the team behind this work (so far) and also thank them about their hard work and long hours. We have team that consist of some Nokia subcontractors and also growing team of Nokia personel:

“MeeGo for N900″ team (so far)

- Cybercom Turku team; Marko Saukko, Jouni Peltonen, Sami Sirkiä, Jari Smura and Luka Milovanov.
- Cybercom Tampere team; Kalle Lampila,Teemu Tuominen,Tuukka Mäkinen and Ville Marjusaari.
- Carsten Munk via Nomovok
- Jarkko Nikula via Atomide
- Jan-Simon Möller from Linuxfoundation
- Nokia team; Alexander Kanevskiy, Felipe Contreras, Markus Lehtonen, Ameya Palande, Sakari Poussa, Roger Quadros and me.

In addition to official project team, many Nokia people have helped us despite their hectic daily work, even with their free time. Most of them are driven by the desire to open, repurpose and upstream all relevant sw that has been originally created for Maemo 5 based N900 product during previous years.

Marko, Jouni, Sami & Luka and Markus were working with me already on last year when we did prototypes and interoperability tests of Maemo & Moblin stuff combined in different ways. Based on those we had pretty good picture of what we are doing and why.

And of course, we have had very good and productive co-operation with various Intel teams since those times. Anas Nashif and many others from Intel’s MeeGo team have done a lot for us by enabling ARM stuff in MeeGo OBS and repositories.

Last but not least, I want to give special thanks to Stskeeps (alias Carsten Munk ;) . He has teached us how to operate on open, and he has also done respectable amount of this work since early days of Meego. In addition to that, I belive that his earlier work on Maemo community and on Mer project has in fact inspired all of us and shown a way to MeeGo alredy years ago.

Br,
//Harri

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