TL;DR: The idea: use vanilla Debian to get a great mobile experience on N900 (and possibly other devices) and replace Maemo
The question: are you in?
The task for now: discuss the shape

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Here and there I saw some posts of people playing with DebiaN900 or willing to do it, wanting to shape in a way it could possibly replace our dated Maemo.

We're really missing an up-to-date GNU/Linux system for the geek. Whether you have an N900, N9, N950, a libhybris-compatible Android phone or anything that can run GNU/Linux - you could benefit from it. Or maybe an N8xx...

But a couple of freelancers playing out with Debian on N900 is not enough to make an OS.

Many questions appear: should we bring h-d? What about compatibility with Maemo apps? Harmattan apps? Calls? The UI? Exchangability of DEs (GnomeShell, Unity)? Nemo UI (Glacier?) ? Sailifish UI someday?
Maemo-only frameworks (alarmd)? Accounts integration? On and on and on.
How far do we add to vanilla Debian?

Before we discuss all those questions: are you in? (even for a small task)
When we have the manpower, we can get down to technical discussion and dividing tasks.

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Current team:

• marmistrz