[Imendio Announce] GNOME Mobile And Embedded Initiative Announced

[Mikael Hallendal]

April 19th 2007, Stockholm, Sweden: Imendio AB today announced its  
involvement in founding of the GNOME Mobile And Embedded Initiative  
(GMAE).

The GNOME Mobile And Embedded Initiative was today announced at the  
Embedded Linux Conference in Santa Clara, USA. The foundation was  
founded as a joint effort between several market leading  
organizations as a community effort to develop and provide an open  
platform for mobile devices built on top of the mature GNOME software  
stack.

"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", commented Mikael  
Hallendal, CEO at Imendio AB.

Imendio provides expertise around several key components in the GMAE  
stack, such as GTK+, GConf and GnomeVFS. Imendio's library Loudmouth  
is also used to provide XMPP support through Telepathy.

About Imendio AB

Imendio is a small European company employing some of the world’s  
most experienced and talented GNOME and GTK+ developers. Imendio  
focuses on library and API development, targeting platforms ranging  
from embedded devices to desktops. With extensive experience in GLib/ 
GTK+ and XMPP/Jabber, Imendio provides first class software  
development services.

About the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative

The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative advances the use, development  
and commercialization of GNOME components as a mobile and embedded  
user experience platform. It brings together industry leaders, expert  
consultants, key developers and the community and industry  
organizations they represent. As an open development community,  
participants support the GNOME Mobile & Embedded Platform, a subset  
of GNOME's proven, widely used desktop platform, focusing on software  
components shipping in production mobile and embedded products. More  
information about GMAE can be found at www.gnome.org/mobile.

About the GNOME Foundation

Comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and industry-leading  
companies, the GNOME Foundation is an organization committed to  
supporting the advancement of GNOME. The Foundation is a member  
directed, non-profit organization that provides financial,  
organizational and legal support to the GNOME project and helps  
determine its vision and roadmap. More information on the GNOME  
Foundation can be found at foundation.gnome.org.

Press enquiries

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Australia)
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This press release on the web: http://www.imendio.com/press/show/18
Official press release:        http://www.gnome.org/press/releases/ 
gmae.html