MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition for Nokia N900

Session Summary:
Session will present the MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition for Nokia N900 (or DE for short): what is it about, what is the scope, why was it created, what is the status now and way forward. Session will cover the initial motivation for the project, the project practicalities and lessons learnt so far. Presentation includes a live demo with the device, showing the current status. The project is executed fully in the open with the community collaboration, so this session also functions as a introduction to get more people involved. Potentially the session can include also brief instructions for the audience on how to get the release onto their N900 devices, or this could be a topic for a later more hands-on session.
Session Abstract:

MeeGo 1.2 Developer Edition for Nokia N900 project targets to make a MeeGo software release for the Nokia N900 device, that is usable both as a primary phone device and a stable environment for further development.

Target audience for the release are developers and hackers, not regular end users. The focus of the project is kept tightly focused on three key use cases: phone calls, SMS and Browser use with WLAN connectivity. These use cases shall be fine-tuned to perfection so that rather than having many features, the non-functional targets such as good performance are met. Putting it the other way, it needs to "look good on the YouTube". The target of using N900 as one's primary device requires the optimization of device HW specific contents, such as power management.

The N900 DE release is based on MeeGo 1.2 trunk content, including the available Handset UX applications. During the project there is a possibility to evaluate different available open source applications, and potentially replace some of the reference applications with new ones, while keeping the non-functional targets the same. In the best scenario there would be many community applications as part of the release, and more to download via MeeGo Apps site. The intent of DE work is to be a well-behaving downstream that contributes any changes back to MeeGo.