GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative Quote Sheet

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• "As an organization relying on GNOME technologies in our ACCESS Linux Platform product, and with a strong commitment to supporting and participating in the open source software development community, ACCESS is very pleased to be a founding member of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative. GMAE is uniquely community-driven, as well as uniquely about writing working open source code for the most-used pieces of technology in people's lives. It doesn't get much more exciting than that!" -- David "Lefty" Schlesinger, Director of Open Source Technologies, ACCESS Co., Ltd.

• "Linux based mobile and embedded devices are the future. The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative is a great opportunity for the community to shape the mobile user experience. The BlueZ Project is proud to be part of GMAE and provide an unified access to the Bluetooth technology across desktop and embedded systems." -- Marcel Holtmann, BlueZ Project

• "Cairo provides advanced 2D graphics rendering to the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Platform, making it easy to meet the visual demands of today's increasingly rich mobile applications. The Cairo community is grateful for contributions from GMAE participants which continually improve Cairo's performance on mobile devices." -- Carl Worth, maintainer of the Cairo graphics library

• "Canonical supports GNOME as a forum for collaboration around an open platform for mobile devices, from internet tablets to smartphones. We believe that the GNOME commitment to usability, which we share in the Ubuntu community, is an essential ingredient for the creation of mobile applications for mass market consumer devices." -- Jane Silber, COO, Canonical

• "This announcement by the GNOME Foundation is a welcome addition to the Open Source community landscape. The CE Linux Forum is always happy to see effective community efforts organized and working. We look forward to working with this group to enhance the capability to use Linux in mobile phones." -- Tim Bird, Chair of the Architecture Group of the CE Linux Forum

• "The choice of user-space on graphical embedded systems has long been a difficult and error-prone decision. With the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, the power of the GNOME desktop becomes available to the embedded world, of course as truly Open Source Software. The founding members of GMAE include open source project members, device manufacturers already using GNOME technologies and a number of consultancies who can provide expert guidance and services. Codethink has worked hard on bringing core GNOME and Freedesktop technologies such as HAL and D-Bus into the embedded sphere and is very excited to be part of this initiative." -- Rob Taylor, Director, Codethink Ltd.

• "The embedded and mobile markets are adopting open source in general and GNOME in particular at an ever-increasing rate. By joining forces through the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative, knowledge and applications can be easily pooled to benefit the entire community. Real-time communications are an essential part of mobile devices and we're delighted to bring our expertise in this area to the initiative, and support our Telepathy communications framework as a key component of the platform." -- Philippe Kalaf, Director, Collabora Ltd.

• "Debian has been distributing the GNOME desktop for almost ten years now, and releases more than 18,000 software packages for eleven architectures, including some embedded ones and more to come. With its commitment to Free Software and focus on the development of a truly universal operating system, the Debian project welcomes the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative. We will help integrate the technologies developed into our system, which will benefit our users but also the dozens of Debian-based distributions, and especially embedded derivatives." -- Sam Hocevar, Debian Project Leader

• "We built OpenMoko with the goal of creating a platform that has the potential to leapfrog the PC. For us, the work going on around the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initative is fundamental to realizing this dream. It was the natural choice for us to base our architecture on, and begin to explore the implications of truly open mobile devices." -- Sean Moss-Pultz, OpenMoko Product Manager, FIC

• "Seeing rapid uptake of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative technology stack by embedded industry has been incredible. Fluendo is very happy to be a core part of this effort, in the form of being the primary force behind the GStreamer multimedia framework. We look forward to pushing the whole platform even further in collaboration with our GMAE partners and our customers." -- Pascal Pegaz, Co-founder Fluendo S.A.

• "The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative is exactly what we need to create a powerful and reliable base for all the projects that make use of GNOME components on embedded and mobile devices already. It will help to improve the communication between the upstream GNOME developers and embedded project members and is quite likely to become a great new institiution improving the quality of Open Source software. Both the GPE and the GPE Phone Edition projects are really happy to see GMAE become true!" -- Florian Boor, GPE lead developer

• "As a GNOME development company, we are very pleased to participate in GMAE. We consider that this initiative will increase the synergies between the main actors working in the adoption of GNOME as technical platform for mobile devices. Making GNOME even more mobile-friendly, defining and evolving an innovative software platform for user experience development across a wide range of device profiles, will increase and diversify the use cases of the project technologies, benefiting both mobile and desktop users and developers." -- Juan Jose Sanchez Penas, co-founder of Igalia

• "As a small company specializing in GTK+ and GNOME, Imendio is excited to be part of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative. We hope to see this serve as an important bridge between the GNOME community and the embedded market as well as a marketplace for further cooperation between the involved parties. With our deep roots in GNOME, we are thrilled to see the project take this important step towards new platforms." -- Mikael Hallendal, CEO Imendio AB

• "In recent years we've seen Linux spread from the server to the desktop. To a large extent the success on the desktop was due to the GNOME project. Whether Linux is suitable for the desktop is no longer the question: We are now looking at the next logical step, the mobile desktop. And today again GNOME is consolidating the various fruitful efforts in this one combined project, the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative. kernel concepts very much appreciates and supports this effort and is proud to be one of its initial members! As a company working in the mobile and embedded Linux field for more than seven years and mobile desktops for more than six years this initiative will help us to create even better solutions for our customers." -- Nils Faerber, CEO, kernel concepts

• "The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative is a huge step in providing the mobile ecosystem with a community-supported, Open Source mobile stack of software. This open mobile stack is the perfect complement to an open Linux-based mobile platform and complements the work being done in the Linux Foundation Mobile Linux workgroup. The GMAE collection of open applications will give mobile handset and tablet users a rich and consistent 'mobile experience' with standardization opportunities for the platform as well as at the user experience level." -- John Cherry, Linux Foundation Mobile Linux Manager

• "The Linux Phone Standards Forum (LiPS) recognizes the significant contributions that GNOME technologies provide for the desktop and increasingly for mobile devices. LiPS welcomes the efforts of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative to raise awareness of mobile requirements, and to address technological barriers to broader adoption of open source in mobile devices. LiPS anticipates productive collaboration with GMAE in standardization and in enhancing the mobile user experience." -- Haila Wang, president of LiPS Forum

• "MontaVista Software recognizes the huge opportunity to design, define and deliver the key capabilities of future Linux based mobile phone products. We all understand the value of a highly usable, customizable and compelling mobile user experience. We anticipate working very closely with the GNOME team." -- Larry Slotnick, VP of Engineering, MontaVista Software, Inc.

• "GNOME is an active and truly open developer community creating innovative software. This is why Nokia joined the community and chose GNOME software as a foundation for the Maemo platform and our Internet Tablets. We are excited about the growing use of GNOME software in consumer devices. The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative will now take this further by bringing together community and industry to promote and coordinate the continued development of the GMAE platform." -- Ari Jaaksi, Director of Open Source Software Oprations, Nokia

• "With OpenedHand's core business over the past five years being focused on the development and improvement of GNOME based embedded devices, we are extremely pleased to be part of the formation of the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative. These technologies give device manufacturers unrivaled freedom and flexibility in device creation. GMAE further paves the way for collaboration between companies and the community to further innovations and benefit all involved." -- Matthew Allum, CEO, OpenedHand Ltd.

• "We are thrilled to be a part of this next stage of the Embedded Linux market. The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative offers major opportunities via increased consolidation of our development platform and by allowing coordination around a common schedule, with scope for differentiation where it counts. GMAE can do for embedded devices what GNOME has done for the desktop." -- Murray Cumming, Managing Director of Openismus GmbH

• "With its long term focus on simplified, usable human interfaces, the entrance of the GNOME project onto the mobile and embedded scene is a welcome one. Add in the widespread corporate and community support that the parent project enjoys, and the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative is a project to follow." -- Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst, RedMonk

• "As one of the oldest corporate contributors to the GNOME Project, Red Hat is excited to see GNOME move into new spaces beyond the desktop. We've seen the flexibility of the platform with the new UI we've created for the One Laptop per Child project, which is based on the blending of technologies that both GNOME and Red Hat bring to the table. GNOME will be an incredibly important technology in our drive to build new markets in the client space." -- Brian Stevens, CTO at Red Hat

• "GNOME is a set of versatile components that are very suitable as building blocks for creating a software environment for mobile devices and phones. Being such a building block, Tinymail fits in that picture. Most of the Tinymail project members are part of the GNOME community, they believe the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative will bring component teams and companies closer together." -- Philip Van Hoof, author of the tinymail framework

• "As Linux plays a growing role in mobile connected multimedia experiences for consumers, the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative comes at an important time. Wind River strongly supports this initiative. GMAE will assist the GNOME community to be efficient and help them deliver solutions to a much larger audience - the billions of embedded devices ranging from cell phones to web tablets to automotive infotainment systems. Wind River, the Leader in commercial embedded Linux, looks forward to working closely with this community." -- Glenn Seiler, Director of Linux Platforms, Wind River

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