GNOME Mobile will advance the use, development and commercialization of GNOME components as a mobile and embedded user experience platform. It brings together industry leaders, expert consultants, key developers and the community and industry organizations they represent.
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Mission
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Increase community and commercial visibility of GNOME Mobile technology and participating organisations.
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Co-ordinate investment in the GTK+ and GNOME platform, documentation and developer tools.
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Increase development focus on the "mobile experience", particularly the integration of GNOME desktop and GNOME Mobile technology.
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Facilitate healthy development collaboration between participating organisations, the GNOME community and related projects; and between GNOME platform, desktop and GNOME Mobile developers.
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Pursue standardisation opportunities for the platform, and potentially at the user experience level.
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Ensure that Software Freedom is a reality beyond the desktop, and available in the hands of users around the world.
Devices
The GNOME Mobile Platform
The GNOME Mobile Platform is a subset of the proven, widely used GNOME Platform. The platform definition announced today represents components that are currently shipping in production devices, but GNOME Mobile participants are planning to grow the platform aggressively in the next twelve months, to enable new technologies and functionality.
Technologies in Incubation
Technologies for Consideration
- Hiker components
- Java ME
- Mozilla-based mobile browser
- OHM
- WebKit (GTK+ port)