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Lars KurthApril 20, 2010

FreeingSymbian OS

FreeingSymbian OS


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You can contact meIn case you have questions later

[email protected]

lars.kurth on skype


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Symbian Origins


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Symbian Foundation Milestones


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We are an independent, not-for-profit, open source foundation

We are not the old Symbian Limited(which was acquired by Nokia)

We are not owned by Nokia(funded by board members from across the industry)


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Symbian^3 was made available as open source in February 2010

38 million lines of code available to everyone under the EPL(most complete open source mobile OS, e.g. open telephony stack)

Council elections just concluded(30% of seats on councils were up for election)

Our first key milestones to building a vibrant open source community

Symbian^4 will soon be available under the EPL

Our ambition is to enable development in the OPENand create opportunities for companies and individuals

Going

Open Source

Going

Open Source


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4.6 billion mobile phone subscribers at end 2009

1.7 billion Internet users

(1.3 billion on phones)

1.25 billion personal computers at end 2009

(mostly Windows PCs;


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MissionBuild our own phone with off-the-shelf hardware(Beagle Board + modem + Symbian^3)

GoalsProve that the Symbian platform is fully open

It works out of the box on open hardware

Complete hardware and software stack for the community(In other words enable you to build your own phone)

Low hardware cost < $300

Document the entire process(the work can be used and built upon by our community)

Enable other community projects

As an unexpected side-effect we start to see community interest in usingthe kernel for connected non-phone use-cases
http://blog.symbian.org/2010/04/14/build-your-own-phone/http://blog.symbian.org/2010/04/14/build-your-own-phone/


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How do I participate?By sharing some of your free time and expertise with the community

Who can join?Everybody is welcome

Right now we have people from Accenture, CellTelecom, Fujitsu, Nokiaand a couple of individuals working on the project

More people are showing interest in joining the Wild Ducks

Weekly London coding session

Information on Wild Ducks?Check out the wiki page: http://tiny.symbian.org/wildducks

Contact:The mailing list: [email protected]


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MissionAnybody must be able to compile the Symbian platform with a freecompiler (namely, GCC)

Why?For historical reasons Symbian only compiles with commercial compilers

How far are we from success?We think that, overall, about six months of development are needed!

If we can galvanize the community this can done by June

The foundation will help build, test and promote the project

Software Freedom FightersSoftware Freedom Fighters


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Project GoalsProvide a fully open source compiler run-time

Remove 160 syntax errors and validate the fixes

Symbian compiles with the latest GCC stock release

YOU can help byFixing a bug!

Helping others: provide GCC advice on the mailing list

Connecting us to people who may want to help

Evangelize our efforts

Contact details:Project page: http://bit.ly/d8d25qMailing list: [email protected]

Image created by James Nashhttp://cirrus.twiddles.com/


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Symbian^4 will provide Qt 4.7, Qt Mobility and Qt UI Extensions

Qt and Symbian are different open source projects(but Symbian hosts R/O versions of Qt source code)

Symbian^4 & QtSymbian^4 & Qt

UI Extensions for Mobile (UIEMO)

Built-inPhone Apps

Qt Mobility APIs

Qt 4.7

Kernel, OS and Middleware

Seamlessintegrationwith device

Qt UIBearer MgmtLocationMessagingContactsMultimedia

...

extra widgetstheming

input methodslocalization
http://qt.nokia.com/


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S^1 S^2 S^3 S^4 S^N

Application & UI

Framework

Middleware & Base

Application

Framework

UIEMO

Install* Install Install

* S60 5th Edition & Selected S60 3rd Edition Devices

AVKON

OEM

Optional

MobilityAPIs

Big change, small impactBig change, small impact
http://qt.nokia.com/http://qt.nokia.com/http://qt.nokia.com/http://qt.nokia.com/http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pakzilla.com/wp-content/upload/s60logo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pakzilla.com/tag/symbian-s60/&h=84&w=130&sz=4&tbnid=zG8UqCg20NIhIM:&tbnh=59&tbnw=91&prev=/images?q=S60+Logo&hl=en&usg=__92S89eapS0at9Cus0wQgv9yTby4=&ei=-u8LS6PKHcn14AbN2uiBBA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=4&ct=image&ved=0CA0Q9QEwAw


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S60 applications will still work on S^3, but not S^4

Develop applications for Qt & Qt Mobility(for seamless integration with the device you also need to use UIEMO)

You can start doing this already(but not everything will be pre-integrated)

Cross platform on Symbian & MeeGoo(however UIEMO will be available on Symbian first)

I am an App Developer

What does this mean?

I am an App Developer

What does this mean?


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We have been fully open source for two months

This is just the beginning

We are working on building a vibrant and open community

Some hurdles are still on the way

There will be many opportunities commercially and for passionate individuals

In SummaryIn Summary


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blog.symbian.orgdeveloper.symbian.orgideas.symbian.orgtwitter.com/Symbiansymbian.org/news-and-media

PROJECTShttp://bit.ly/bPcgw0 (wild ducks)http://bit.ly/d8d25q (freedom fighters)

ReferencesReferences

You can contact me [email protected]

lars.kurth on skype

twitter.com/lars_kurth
http://bit.ly/bPcgw0http://bit.ly/d8d25qhttp://bit.ly/d8d25qhttp://bit.ly/bPcgw0

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