GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative announced

Today at ELC, the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Initiative was finally announced!

“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.”

We at OpenedHand are proud to have played a role in its creation and of course know a thing or two about the platform which contains key components developed by ourselves. Our ‘Poky Platform’ has full support for creating GNOME Mobile & Embedded based device stacks.

See our press release for further details.

More web stuff

Today sees slightly updated with new url matchbox-project.org site and a brand new Pokylinux.org site!

Pimlico Launched!

pimlico-project.org is now live.

Pimlico is a suite of lightweight Personal Information Management (PIM) applications designed primarily for handheld and mobile devices.

This is our umbrella open source PIM project featuring Dates, Contacts, Tasks and more.

Together with the launch of Pimlico we are pleased to announce that the Dates 0.4 release is out; including improved rendering, multiple calendars (including calendars on the web) and much much more.

Its About Time.

We at OH towers have been extremely busy lately, so busy in fact we’ve neglected to update this blog. So without further a do some updates on happenings at OH.

We’ve moved to a bigger new office.. We’re now based in Bromley on the outskirts of SE London. With more space we finally have room for the all important ping pong table and bargain vintage Herman Miller office furniture collection.

Dodji, Andrew and Neil have joined the gang. That’s Dodji Seketeli, karate master of Nemiver, libcroco and gtksourceviewmm fame, Andrew Zarowski, QEmu and Palm hardware hacker extraordinaire and Neil Patel, bling master. Welcome aboard all!

Vernier Software and Technology have announced there ‘labquest’ device. OpenedHand has had the pleasure in working with Vernier on the development of this unique and interesting embedded device for use in classrooms around the world.

The Linux based device is powered by various pieces of Open Source software including X Windows, GTK and OpenedHand’s Matchbox . Most exciting from our POV, ‘Poky‘ our OpenEmbedded based build-come-distro-come-development system was used together with QEmu ARM emulation as the primary tool in the development of the device.

Be sure to watch the video to see the device in action. The device is expected to ship later this year. Also expect a new Poky website and updates in near future.

Clutter development is progressing well. Check the Clutter Blog for recent news and releases.

OLPC (the hundred dollar laptop) is using Matchbox for window management of its innovative ‘Sugar’ user interface. A nice nod we think to Matchbox’s flexibility.

We badly need to update the OH web site. This is in progress together with further updates to OH project sites and some new ones appearing. Watch this space - some exciting stuff in the pipeline.

We will be visiting ELC - that’s the CELF Embedded Linux Conference. If your going too, be sure to say HI.