I'd imagine this would be of interest to those working on mobile
Geospatial applications. You might want to join their email lists and
introduce them to OSGeo.
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Cameron Shorter
Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
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April 19th 2007, Stockholm, Sweden: Imendio AB today announced its
involvement in founding of the GNOME Mobile And Embedded Initiative
(GMAE).
The GNOME Mobile And Embedded Initiative was today announced at the
Embedded Linux Conference in Santa Clara, USA. The foundation was
founded as a joint effort between several market leading
organizations as a community effort to develop and provide an open
platform for mobile devices built on top of the mature GNOME software
stack.
"As a small company specializing in GTK+ and GNOME, Imendio is
excited to be part of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative. We hope
to see this serve as an important bridge between the GNOME community
and the embedded market as well as a marketplace for further
cooperation between the involved parties", commented Mikael
Hallendal, CEO at Imendio AB.
Imendio provides expertise around several key components in the GMAE
stack, such as GTK+, GConf and GnomeVFS. Imendio's library Loudmouth
is also used to provide XMPP support through Telepathy.
About Imendio AB
Imendio is a small European company employing some of the world’s
most experienced and talented GNOME and GTK+ developers. Imendio
focuses on library and API development, targeting platforms ranging
from embedded devices to desktops. With extensive experience in GLib/
GTK+ and XMPP/Jabber, Imendio provides first class software
development services.
About the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative
The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative advances 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. As an open development community,
participants support the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Platform, a subset
of GNOME's proven, widely used desktop platform, focusing on software
components shipping in production mobile and embedded products. More
information about GMAE can be found at www.gnome.org/mobile.
About the GNOME Foundation
Comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading
companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to
supporting the advancement of GNOME. The Foundation is a member
directed, non-profit organization that provides financial,
organizational and legal support to the GNOME project and helps
determine its vision and roadmap. More information on the GNOME
Foundation can be found at foundation.gnome.org.
Press enquiries
Imendio AB GNOME Foundation Press
Officer
Mikael Hallendal, CEO Jeff Waugh (Sydney,
Australia)
Phone: +46 (0)8 555 729 61 Mobile: +61 423 989 818
Mobile: +46 (0)709 718 918 Phone: +612 9318 0284
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: gnome-press-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.imendio.com
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. GNOME is a trademark of the
GNOME Foundation. All other names and trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
This press release on the web: http://www.imendio.com/press/show/18
Official press release: http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/
gmae.html
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