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Maemo Harmattan architecture: Qt and more

Submitted by rdale on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 12:42
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Quim Gil

Maemo 5 platform development is in the final stage and we are working already on Harmattan, a very special release marking the graduation in the Nokia software strategy. Harmattan will bring a consolidated Maemo architecture driven by Qt and other champion projects from the freedesktop.org, GNOME and KDE communities.

Since its debut in 2005, Maemo has pioneered implementing young and established Linux components in mobile devices: GTK+, Hildon, Telepathy, D-Bus, BlueZ... Maemo powers open devices like the Nokia 770, N800 and N810 Internet Tablets, and now is gearing to more mainstream audiences with Maemo 5.

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After many years working as a journalist in a Catalan newspaper, Quim moved his career towards web development and online communities. His interest in technology and freedom lead him to the free software community around 2000. He got increasignly involved in the GNOME project, coordinating GUADEC 2006 and joining the GNOME Foundation board. Quim has worked with Nokia since 2007 when he joined the Maemo team in Helsinki. In his current role of open source advocate, his job consists of 'connecting people' between Maemo Devices, the Maemo community and related free software upstream projects.