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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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 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).
-== Members ==
+== 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
-* [[JeremyKatz| Jeremy Katz]]
+== Current Status ==
-* [[PeterRobinson| Peter Robinson]]
-* [[JonathanRoberts| Jonathan Roberts]]
-* [[salimma| Michel Salim]]
-* [[User:Rathann| Dominik Mierzejewski]]
-* [[User:Thawkins| Tim Hawkins]]
-* [[User:Lcafiero| Larry Cafiero]]
-== Mission ==
+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.
-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 Inter 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
+== Official Fedora Mini Spins for Fedora 13 ==
-== Current Aims ==
+* [http://spins.fedoraproject.org/moblin/ Moblin 2.1]
+* [http://spins.fedoraproject.org/soas/ Sugar on a Stick]
-* Stock Fedora working on current Netbook and MID hardware
+== To the future and beyond ==
-* (F11) A spin of Fedora targeted for some of these smaller devices
-* A reduction in dependencies to produce a small usable netbook install (Asus eeePC 701 comes with 2Gb Flash)
-== Devices ==
+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.
-Some of the devices include
+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.
-* [[Eee_PC]]
-* [[Acer_Aspire_One]]
-* [[Dell_Mini_Inspiron]]
-* [[OSU_Computer_Science_Platform]]
-* [[Fit-PC]]
-== Joining the SIG ==
+== Getting help and getting involved ==
-Joining the Fedora Mini SIG is as simple as being part of Fedora. Once you are a contributor to Fedora, you can join the SIG by adding your name above and communicating with the rest of the team in the usual [[Communicate|  Fedora channels]] .
+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 ==
+* 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.
-When submitting a Fedora Mini package for review please attach it to the [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462851 Tracker Bug]
+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>
+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]
+Other related projects:
+* [http://www.gnome.org/mobile/ GNOME Mobile]
+[[Category:SIGs]]
+[[Category:Fedora special-interest groups]]

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