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Nokia fosters mobile innovation through open source development
November 02, 2005
New open source portal for developers launched
Nokia Mobility Conference 2005, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - To foster mobile software innovations, Nokia launched today opensource.nokia.com, a new Internet portal for its open source software projects. This is a natural continuation of Nokia's active involvement in the open source community. The projects presented in the portal enable Nokia to share mobile software knowledge and innovations with open source developers in order to further drive the mobile industry's development.
Nokia is currently working with the open source community on several projects, such as the open source browser for S60 (Series 60), Maemo, URIQA (URI Query Agent), and Python for S60. Bringing all these projects together, the new portal provides a consolidated view of Nokia's open source activities and access to its open source projects. The portal itself is built on top of Nokia's open source semantic web architecture based on URIQA.
The open source browser for S60 3rd Edition is based on the work done in one of Nokia's open source projects. The Maemo development platform provides the tools and the opportunity to collaborate with Nokia on future devices and open source releases in the Linux-based Internet Tablet category. Python for S60 allows the developers who utilize the powerful Python programming language to execute Python commands and run Python scripts and applications on S60 devices.
Open source initiatives are important components of Nokia's offerings in the mobile marketplace. "We believe that open source development contributes to the creation and rapid adaptation of mobile software technologies. The new portal demonstrates our commitment to open source activities, and it is a natural extension for our Forum Nokia online developer community. We welcome open source developers to participate in innovations to Nokia's software platforms," says Lee Epting, Vice President, Forum Nokia.
"Nokia Research Center as a leading research organization is looking at further strengthening our relationship with and actively contributing to the open source community. The new portal will give an excellent opportunity to work in an environment of open innovation and create valuable results," says Dr. Bob Iannucci, Senior Vice President and Head of Nokia Research Center.
In addition to its own open source projects, Nokia participates in industry-wide open source projects and communities. One example is the Eclipse Foundation: an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. As a Strategic Developer in the Eclipse Foundation, Nokia leads a project to deliver mobile developer tools for Java and also contributes to several other Eclipse projects, outside the Java scope.