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

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

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

5. Act One
Why mobile matters

6. “ 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.

7. THREE THINGS

8. Handsets

9. Interesting members...

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

16. Why
mobile?

17. ~ 200m per year

19. ~ 309m in 2009
~ 376m in 2010

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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Act Two
What about GNOME?

25. 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”

27. Opinionated
Fast
Easy

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

29. Act Three
A pair of star-cross’d lovers

31. Convergence

33. Platforms

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

38. 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?

39. Fair comparisons
GTK Qt

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

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

42. GUADEC Challenge:
Find the SDK

44. 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.

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