definitions and package for plasma on meego

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hi ...

i (along with some other kde people) are in preliminary discussions with some 
companies regarding putting KDE and Plasma on devices. one in particular is 
looking at Plasma Netbook + modifications for a tablet device running MeeGo.

this kind of opportunity will likely become more frequent, but as they appear 
they are usually going to be one time events: we will have one good shot with 
each company.

right now, we're missing a very critical piece of the puzzle which is 
preventing these companies from starting to get involved in R&D type 
activities with us:

		we need a clear description of what "KDE on MeeGo" is.

this includes:

* build instructions for MeeGo

* tarballs they can download with the relevant sources (could be just a list 
of links to existing tarballs we release)

* lists of files/libraries that end up being installed as part of kdelibs and 
runtime on MeeGo

* documentation of the MeeGo profiles (tablet, mobile) that go into kdelibs

i know these are all "works in progress" type things, but if we have 
documentation on them, please speak up and post links so we can pass them on 
to the interested parties.

there is some information here:

	http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile

but it's a bit spotty and not something we can hand to a 3rd party, really. 
there is also some interesting TODO's here:

	http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile/PlatformModifications

and some packaging docs here:

	http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile/MaemoPackages

but again, this is more in the category of "internal notes".

i also have read the notes from the mobile BoF at akademy:

	http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Mobile/Meetings/Akademy2010#Minutes

some great stuff there; but it's missing "documentation for 3rd parties". some 
may be tempted to say "but we aren't ready for 3rd parties", but that's 
incorrect: we are ready for early adopters who are ready and willing to help 
out and work with the code alongside us. it's an opportunity to get more 
people helping us instead of trying to do it all on our own like heros with 
the idea of having something "complete" one day to offer to 3rd parties. while 
many 3rd parties are going to want that "something complete", not everyone 
needs that and some are going to want to be involved in making it happen.

i don't have the knowledge necessary to put together this kind of 
documentation, so i'm asking that those who do can come together and help me 
do so. if we can have a working meetng on irc sometime this week to do so, 
that would be great, too. i'd like to end up with some basic recipes on 
getting the KDE Dev Platform on MeeGo along with a slide presentation for the 
technical management, and i'm willing to do a lot of the writing if we can 
scrape together the technical information.

i'm available all of tomorrow and the next day to work on this. who will help 
out?

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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