Proposal for a Desktop Profile working group

The role of MeeGo working groups are explained at http://meego.com/about/governance

This is a request to the Technical Steering Group to approve the creation of a Desktop Profile working group.

Announcement

There are still over 160M desktops shipping per year. This presents solid market opportunity for MeeGo.

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Mission

The Desktop Profile working group shall provide a bi-directional community channel to help the creation of MeeGo profile for desktops / nettops.

Areas

The main areas within the scope of the working group are (in no particular order):

• APIs: Make sure that developers have a set of consistent/coherent user interface APIs for desktops / nettops.

The application development tool framework is based on QT. QT apps developed will work across Desktop Profile, Notebook Profile, and Slate Profile.

Contributors

MeeGo members interested in taking an active role in this working group. Please detail your interests and what you can contribute to the group:

DeviceVM will contribute several engineers to support the Desktop Profile working group, and will support OEM integration of MeeGo-Desktop. DeviceVM's current desktop customers include Acer, Asus, Dell, Foxconn, Gigabyte, MSI, and others. DeviceVM will be able to enable tens of millions of MeeGo-Desktop in the coming year.