Re: GPE 3.0

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 16:08, Guillaume FORTAINE wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I am French Engineer in Informatics and I would want to build a start
>  up to  manufacture mobile phones ( OEM level ). I am currently in
> discussion with investors.
>
> We would want to use the GPE environment but we will need to complete it
> to have a "commercial grade" one.
>
> Here are our goals :
>
> Finish this :
>
> http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/GpeThingsTodo
>
> Mail : sylpheeds UI to 240*320
> +
> Porting Gpe to use ALSA.
> Porting Matchbox to use AIGLX .
> Porting Gpe-mini-browser to use Webkit.
> Mini-Totem with GStreamer Backend ( 320*240 ).
> Using Kaffe as JVM

These (or equivalents) will all be greatly appreciated.

> We believe that we will be able to speak of GPE 3.0. :)
>
> How many people/much time ( full-time developers) are/is needed to
> success in this enterprise ?
> What is the best background they need to have to work on this ? ( C, GTK
> , Linux ? )
> ( we need these informations for our partners ).
> It's a million dollars project and the stuff will be released under GPL.

It seems to me you could keep three or four experienced developers  busy for 
six months and get most of this done. But that is just a random uninformed 
opinion. What I can say is that if you are able to release often there is a 
good chance that some folks (myself included) will be happy to test your 
stuff.

Either way best of luck with kicking off your project and getting your 
partners on board. Your product sounds quite interesting.

Matt
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> We look forward to your answer,
>
> Best Regards,
>
> 				Will
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