Hi Pals, Nokia,
I would be intersted in leading the development of a LGPL/BSD licensed
porting layer of the Qtopia platform for the maemo platform.
Why such a layer is good:
-Existing applications can be utilized for Maemo by easily migrating
them to use osso/hildon technology
-More applications will make hildon/osso more attractive
-Give developers the choiche to target any platform easily
-Maemo is a great piece of Free Software and should be supported
How such a port would look like:
-We would use Qt2/X11 and make it look like the maemo gui
-We would implement libqpe,libqtopia, libqtopia1, libqtopiapim
using osso, hildon and Qt2
-In the future we should use Qt4 but that would require more porting
of the applications.
What we need:
-Legal counseling if we can do a clean room implementations and
how it should look like.
-Sponsors:
-People Donating Time to this project
-People/Companies Donating Money to this project allowing
people to work on it during office hours (not for myself though)
-People writing tests and setting up a QA infrastructure
-People Testing our Work
-People porting/verifying application work
-People enjoying using maemo
How should we proceed:
-We should gather enough people to start this project
-We should have enough information to start the clean room
implementation.
-We should quantify which classes are mostly needed to port
most of the apps.
if you are interested please email me
regards holger
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