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Fedora Mini Special Interest Group

The Fedora Mini SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at supporting NetBooks, Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), it could over time be expanded to also cover things such as Set Top Boxes (STBs).

Mission

The Fedora Mini SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at ensuring that the hardware used in devices such as Netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) work out of the box with Fedora. It could also be used to produce various spins for Gnome Mobile development, Intel's Moblin™ project, Hildon etc

Current Status

Fedora Mini is moving forward. We now incorporate the Moblin™ and Sugar user interfaces in two official Fedora Spins.

The stock Fedora works well on most netbooks
Fedora 13 includes two official Fedora Mini Spins
The dependency reduction is an ongoing project and always will be.

Official Fedora Mini Spins for Fedora 13

To the future and beyond

Moving forward Fedora Mini will continue to support and run the latest Sugar interface. We're reviewing the MeeGo™ with the intention of including the MeeGo™ UX into a future release of Fedora replacing the current Moblin™ UX. We have some OLPC XO-1s and XO-1.5s and are working to see what is required to get the XO-1 re-supported and the XO 1.5 properly supported. ARM platform support is also on the agenda but that needs more investigation. With the introduction of ARM based SmartBooks and Tablets, it will become an important platform for Fedora Mini and Fedora in general.

Other ideas for the Fedora Mini project include support for more embedded architectures as well as Spins or Remixes for MIDS or Set Top Boxes such as a Moovida Media Centre spin.

Getting help and getting involved

At the moment Fedora Mini is primarily maintained by two people. They are Peter Robinson and Sebastian Dziallas. We need more help!

We have a couple of communications channels as well as the usual Fedora channels. We have a mailing list which you can subscribe to here and there's a dedicated IRC channel on Freenode: #fedora-mini.

If you have no idea how to help us, here are some proposals where we need help:

Packagers: There are so many interesting packages that are not yet packaged for Fedora. Package it to improve the user experience.
Reviewers: Only a few people are doing reviews. Help us with reviews so that more packages could be included.
Testers: If you have a small device and use Fedora on it file bugs and add them as a blocker for the Fedora Mini Tracker Bug
Bugs: Become a BugZapper and help us with Fedora Mini related bugs.

Related Fedora projects

The ARM secondary architecture project.

Devices

An overview of the hardware found in the various Netbook/Nettop devices can be found on the Hardware page.

Some of the devices include:

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 == Mission ==
-The Fedora Mini SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at ensuring that the hardware used in devices such as Netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) work out of the box with Fedora.  Eventually, we may also include and build a spin which is targeted at these devices through the use of another user interface experience.  It could also be used to produce various spins for Gnome Mobile development, Intel's Moblin™ project, Hildon etc
+The Fedora Mini SIG is a group of Fedora contributors that are interested in Fedora on small devices. Initially aimed at ensuring that the hardware used in devices such as Netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) work out of the box with Fedora.  It could also be used to produce various spins for Gnome Mobile development, Intel's Moblin™ project, Hildon etc
-== Current Aims ==
+== Current Status ==
-* Stock Fedora working on current Netbook (generally working well)
+Fedora Mini is moving forward. We now incorporate the Moblin™ and Sugar user interfaces in two official Fedora Spins.
-* A Fedora Moblin Netbook remix (planned for Fedora 12)
+* The stock Fedora works well on most netbooks
-* An official Moblin Netbook spin (planned for Fedora 13)
+* Fedora 13 includes two official Fedora Mini Spins
-* A reduction in dependencies to produce a small usable netbook install (Asus eeePC 701 comes with 2Gb Flash) - ongoing!
+* The dependency reduction is an ongoing project and always will be.
-== Devices ==
+== Official Fedora Mini Spins for Fedora 13 ==
+* [http://spins.fedoraproject.org/moblin/ Moblin 2.1]
+* [http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ Sugar on a Stick]
-An overview of the hardware found in the various Netbook/Nettop devices can be found on the [[SIGs/FedoraMini/Hardware| Hardware]] page.
+== To the future and beyond ==
-Some of the devices include:
+Moving forward Fedora Mini will continue to support and run the latest Sugar interface. We're reviewing the MeeGo™ with the intention of including the MeeGo™ UX into a future release of Fedora replacing the current Moblin™ UX. We have some OLPC XO-1s and XO-1.5s and are working to see what is required to get the XO-1 re-supported and the XO 1.5 properly supported. ARM platform support is also on the agenda but that needs more investigation. With the introduction of ARM based SmartBooks and Tablets, it will become an important platform for Fedora Mini and Fedora in general.
-* [[Netbooks]]
-** [[Acer Aspire One]]
-** [[Dell Inspiron Mini 9]]
-** [[Eee PC]]
-* [[Fit-PC]]
-* [[OLPC]]
-* [[OSU_Computer_Science_Platform|OSWALD]]
-== Joining the SIG ==
+Other ideas for the Fedora Mini project include support for more embedded architectures as well as Spins or Remixes for MIDS or Set Top Boxes such as a Moovida Media Centre spin.
-Joining the Fedora Mini SIG is as simple as being part of Fedora.
+== Getting help and getting involved ==
-We have a couple of communications channels as well as the usual [[Communicate| Fedora channels]]. We have a mailing list which you can [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mini Subscribe to here] and there's a dedicated IRC channel on Freenode: [irc://chat.freenode.net/#fedora-mini #fedora-mini].
+At the moment Fedora Mini is primarily maintained by two people. They are [[User:Pbrobinson|Peter Robinson]] and [[User:Sdz|Sebastian Dziallas]]. We need more help!
-== How you can help ==
+We have a couple of communications channels as well as the usual [[Communicate| Fedora channels]]. We have a mailing list which you can [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/mini subscribe to here] and there's a dedicated IRC channel on Freenode: [irc://chat.freenode.net/#fedora-mini #fedora-mini].
 If you have no idea how to help us, here are some proposals where we need help:
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 * '''Bugs:''' Become a [[BugZappers| BugZapper]] and help us with Fedora Mini related bugs.
-== Getting reviews ==
+== Related Fedora projects ==
-When submitting a Fedora Mini package for review please attach it to the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462851 Tracker Bug]
+* The [[Architectures/ARM|ARM]] secondary architecture project.
+== Devices ==
+An overview of the hardware found in the various Netbook/Nettop devices can be found on the [[SIGs/FedoraMini/Hardware| Hardware]] page.
+Some of the devices include:
+* [[Netbooks]]
+** [[Acer Aspire One]]
+** [[Dell Inspiron Mini 9]]
+** [[Eee PC]]
+* [[Fit-PC]]
+* [[OLPC]] XO
 == Links ==
-[http://www.moblin.org Moblin website] <BR>
-[http://www.flyn.org/fedoranano/index.html Fedora Nano website]<br>
-== Members ==
+The upstream projects of interest to Fedora Mini include<br>
+The upstream sugar related projects:
+* [http://www.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Labs]
+* [http://www.laptop.org/ One Laptop Per Child]
+Netbook releated projects:
+* [http://www.moblin.org Moblin website]
+* [http://www.meego.com MeeGo website]
-* [[PeterRobinson| Peter Robinson]]
+Other related projects:
-* [[JonathanRoberts| Jonathan Roberts]]
+* [http://www.gnome.org/mobile/ GNOME Mobile]
-* [[MichelSalim| Michel Salim]]
-* [[User:Rathann| Dominik Mierzejewski]]
-* [[User:Thawkins| Tim Hawkins]]
-* [[User:Lcafiero| Larry Cafiero]]
-* [[User:gregorio| Greg Smith]]
-* [[User:Psmith| Phil Smith]]
-* [[User:nbirchler| Neil Birchler]]
-* [[User:smohan| Satish Mohan]]
-* [[User:epartida| Eric Partida]]
-* [[User:sdz| Sebastian Dziallas]]
-* [[User:Cwickert| Christoph Wickert]]
-* [[User:Silfreed| Doug Warner]]
-* [[User:Kingheart| M Yakub Mizan]]
-* [[User:Billmcgonigle| Bill McGonigle]]
-* [[User:Codysmith| Cody Smith]]
-* [[User:Gljohn| Gareth John]]
-* [[User:jawatson| J.A. Watson]]
-* [[User:aph| Andrew Haley]]
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+[[Category:Fedora special-interest groups]]

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