GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative

The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative (GMAE), also known as GNOME Mobile, is an initiative for developing and promoting the use of the GNOME platform in mobile devices. It was announced at the Embedded Linux Conference in Santa Clara, California on April 19, 2007.

Features

* GTK+ toolkit
* the Gstreamer multimedia framework
* Telepathy
* Avahi network service discovery,
* Evolution Data Server for contacts and calendaring
* BlueZ Bluetooth support

Future features

* Tinymail
* GeoClue geolocation service
* Java Mobile & Embedded (Java ME)
* PulseAudio audio management
* HAL hardware information system

Current uses

* Nokia 770 and N800 Internet Tablets
* the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project
* Openmoko Linux mobile phones such as Neo FreeRunner

Founding groups

* ACCESS
* Canonical Ltd
* Intel
* Debian
* Nokia
* Red Hat
* Fluendo
* Linux Foundation
* Maemo

External links

* [http://www.gnome.org/mobile/ GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative]
* [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070423-gnome-foundation-announces-mobile-and-embedded-initiative.html Ars Technica - "GNOME Foundation announces embedded initiative"]