GNOME, Linux mobile stacks, and
you! GUADEC, Den Haag, 30 July 2010

Hi, I’m Andrew. http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/ andrew.savory@limofoundation.org
asavory@apache.org twitter @savs

GNOME, Linux mobile stacks, and
you! A comedy in three acts I. Why mobile matters II. What about GNOME? III. Star-cross’d lovers

Act One
Why mobile matters

“ The mission of the
LiMo Foundation is to create an open, Linux-based software platform for use by the whole global industry to produce mobile devices through a balanced and transparent contribution process enabling a rich ecosystem of differentiated products, applications, and services from device manufacturers, operators, ISVs and integrators.

THREE THINGS

Handsets

Interesting members...

LiMo !

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“... empower open source developers
...”

Why
mobile?

~ 200m per year

~ 309m in 2009 ~
376m in 2010

Tablets Netbooks Smartphones 150 112.5
75 37.5 0 Approximate device shipments (millions of units)

Mobile Netbooks 70,000,000 52,500,000 35,000,000
17,500,000 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 source: ovum Big-screen mobile broadband devices forecast: 2009-14; netbook/notebook with embedded mobile broadband

Mobile Netbooks Mobile Phones PC
(estimated) 8,000,000,000 6,000,000,000 4,000,000,000 2,000,000,000 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 source: ovum Big-screen mobile broadband devices forecast: 2009-14 Mobile regional and country forecast pack: 2010-15

Act Two
What about GNOME?

GNOME’s next place in the
industry “Successful platforms allowed developers to reach a huge user base” “cannot afford to have developers spend weeks before apps can be deployed” “complete story for developers” “modern development tools monolithic application delivery format federated GNOME application market”

Opinionated
Fast
Easy

• https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx93U10Kkro

Act Three A pair of
star-cross’d lovers

Convergence

Platforms

Developers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nielsvk/258859545/

What is the public perception
of the platform? How easy is it to get at the tools? How easy is it to get up and running?

Fair comparisons
GTK Qt

Fair comparisons GTK Qt QtWebkit
QtScript QtNetwork QSql QFile, QDir Qt Resource Qt APIs

Fair comparisons GNOME Qt QtWebkit
QtScript QtNetwork QSql QFile, QDir Qt Resource Qt APIs

GUADEC Challenge:
Find the SDK

A glooming peace this morning
with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Qt and her GNOME.

Thank you! http://www.andrewsavory.com/blog/ andrew.savory@limofoundation.org asavory@apache.org
twitter @savs