With the release of webOS Community Edition back in July, we got our first glimpse into the power of open source and the community of developers that support it. Developers immediately started patching and adding features to SysMgr that have enhanced the user experience on a TouchPad. Now one month after the release of Open webOS 1.0 we have already seen it ported to multiple devices. Within hours of its official release, the WebOS Ports team demonstrated Open webOS running on a Galaxy nexus (see previous blog post). After a lot of hard work their latest video shows how far they have come in just one month.
The WebOS Ports team also ported Open WebOS to a Samsung series 7, as demonstrated by our own Roy Sutton.
If you are interested in contributing, WebOS Ports is looking for help in particular with being able to utilize LibHybris and the Android Video Driver to accelerate applications in Cards. Join them on Freenode:#webos-ports or in the OpenWebOS-General mailing list if you can help.
Developer Ping-Hsun Chen ported Open webOS to a Nook color and has even implemented hardware acceleration.
Another intrepid developer, Mause Malone, took the bootable CD image that Ping-Hsun created and booted a desktop build of Open webOS onto a Dell Mini 9 and a ThinkPad x4.
And general hacker Steven Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) ported Open webOS 1.0 to the Nexus S and an Asus Transformer Prime.
All this in less than one month and more on the way! Very exciting indeed.
We have seen increased activity on the forums and mailing lists as developers discuss issues and new features like the new threaded email app that was released earlier this month. Ideas are flowing, bugs/features are being submitted to JIRA and code pull requests are being made and accepted. This month we saw a great example of the whole community working together. After receiving feedback from people who had issues porting Open webOS to new devices, our engineering team made a change to the build system in order to allow SysMgr be configured for different targets.
Long may the collaboration continue!
If you are interested in getting paid for your contributions check out our open positions, we are looking to add talented people across the board.
As always your feedback and input are valued. If you are working on a port let us know about it so we can help promote your work!
See you soon.
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