[MeeGo-dev] Who will keep pushing MeeGo?

[Dave Neary]

Hi,

On 09/29/2011 08:00 PM, Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata wrote:
> So, Intel decided to left MeeGo, it's clear that their effort on the
> platform has gone. We need to organize the community to keep MeeGo
> development.

Why?

(Honestly, why *must* we organise the community?)

> I think that many other companies have interest in continue the
> development of MeeGo.
>
> Metasys consider MeeGo the best sollution available for Netbook
> platform and we are already deploying MeeGo on schools. For us the
> development continue, i think we (the community) need to settle new
> goals and reorganize the governance of MeeGo.

MeeGo is a collection of open source software components. Tizen will 
also be a collection of open source software components. which of those 
components will be different? There will certainly be a few, but I don't 
know how many. Which of the new components are currently closed and will 
need to be freed, and which of them are already free? I don't know.

Are there any software projects that people are attached to, which will 
not be part of Tizen? Dunno... I guess there was a nascent Buteo 
community, there's a little momentum around ConnMan (but as far as I can 
see, almost none around oFono); all of the netbook GTK+ based apps and 
components (all the "zones") appear to have no community at all.

I guess what I'm saying is, what's the difference between MeeGo and 
Tizen? And if they're not that different, why stay here, rather than go 
there?

Cheers,
Dave.

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