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Mer

2011-07-14T10:11:55Z

222.127.18.171: /* Former goals */

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== [[/Goals|Former goals]] ==

Mer is now an inactive project, due to the introduction of the MeeGo (http://www.meego.com) project which shares a similar mission as Mer. Mer was a community research project into an open and openly developed Maemo platform.

* Integrate the best solutions for a wide variety of small form-factor devices
* Encourage wider access to device <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.mycaal.com/ <span style="color:black;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important; background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">loan modification</span>] capabilities through the Vendor Social Contract
* Demonstrably provide an easy route to market for vendors
* Dramatically reduce costs to vendors of supporting EOL hardware
* Focus, harness and support community contributions to the platform
* Encourage and ease migration of existing applications
* Support experimentation, innovation and development

or, to put it another way:

* As much of Fremantle as we can get on the N8x0

We're hanging out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net) if you would like to discuss Mer (here's a [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=Mer web based IRC client]) and you can follow all the chat on the [http://tinyurl.com/ngroq8 IRClog]. <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.andrewflusche.com/ <span style="color:#444444;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important; background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">Virginia Reckless Driving</span>]

Read [[Mer/Documentation|Documentation]] / Development [[Mer/Status|Status]].

See [[/Tasks|tasks]], [[/Blueprints|blueprints]], [[/Proposals|proposals]] and [[/User Reactions|user reactions]] for the project.</div>

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== Latest activity ==
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From [http://n2.nabble.com/Mer-Chatter-f2732813.html mer-chatter] and [http://planet.maemo.org planet.maemo.org]:
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== What next? ==
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[[Category:Mer]]

Mer

2011-07-14T10:09:07Z

222.127.18.171: /* Former goals */

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</div>

<div style="margin-left: 18px; z-index: 4; margin-right: 4em">

<div style="position: relative; padding-top: 120px; margin-right: 10em; margin-bottom: 2em">
== [[/Goals|Former goals]] ==

Mer is now an inactive project, due to the introduction of the MeeGo (http://www.meego.com) project which shares a similar mission as Mer. Mer was a community research project into an open and openly developed Maemo platform.

* Integrate the best solutions for a wide variety of small form-factor devices
* Encourage wider access to device <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.mycaal.com/ <span style="color:black;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important; background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">loan modification</span>] capabilities through the Vendor Social Contract
* Demonstrably provide an easy route to market for vendors
* Dramatically reduce costs to vendors of supporting EOL hardware
* Focus, harness and support community contributions to the platform
* Encourage and ease migration of existing applications
* Support experimentation, innovation and development

or, to put it another way:

* As much of Fremantle as we can get on the N8x0

We're hanging out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net) if you would like to discuss Mer (here's a [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=Mer web based IRC client]) and you can follow all the chat on the [http://tinyurl.com/ngroq8 IRClog]. <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.andrewflusche.com/ <span style="color:#222222;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important; background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">Virginia Reckless Driving</span>]

Read [[Mer/Documentation|Documentation]] / Development [[Mer/Status|Status]].

See [[/Tasks|tasks]], [[/Blueprints|blueprints]], [[/Proposals|proposals]] and [[/User Reactions|user reactions]] for the project.</div>

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== Latest activity ==
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<imagemap>Image:RSS_feed.png|12px|left
rect 0 0 12 12 [http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=qJEaF4Xp3RGPv3S1rLQIDg&_render=rss]
desc none
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From [http://n2.nabble.com/Mer-Chatter-f2732813.html mer-chatter] and [http://planet.maemo.org planet.maemo.org]:
<rss title="off" desc="off" number="8" time="3600">http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=qJEaF4Xp3RGPv3S1rLQIDg&_render=rss</rss>
</div>
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<div style="float: left; clear: left; width: 60%; border-right: 1px solid #bbb; padding-right: 2em">

== What next? ==
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rect 0 0 255 106 [[Mer/About|About: Learn more about Mer, this new Linux/Gnu distribution, and its history.]]
desc none</imagemap></div>
<div style="float: left"><imagemap>Image:Mer-button-download.png|255px
rect 0 0 255 106 [[Mer/Releases|Download: Get the latest release of Mer on your device or PC.]]
desc none</imagemap></div>
<div style="float: left"><imagemap>Image:Mer-button-people.png|255px
rect 0 0 255 106 [[Mer/People|People: Join the Mer community, and find out who’s already involved.]]
desc none</imagemap></div>
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rect 0 0 255 106 [[Mer/Sprints|Development: Enhance Mer itself, and develop applications.]]
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[[Category:Mer]]