HP open sources webOS [recap]

Items are presented in reverse chronological order - the latest news is at the top.

Open sourcing Open webOS branding

Open webOS needs a logo. Can you be the one to make it?

Coming in March for Open webOS: WebGL, hardware abstraction, and more

Enyo 2.0 UI widgets land, go fully cross-platform

The first batch of user interface bits for the Enyo 2.0 platform were made available, along with Beta 2 of the framework, which takes Enyo truly cross platform, supporting multiple web-app operating systems and all browsers.

HP cutting webOS staffing by half, engineering employees on the way out

275 of the 500 remaining HP employees working on webOS got notice on Tuesday that their services would no longer be required going forward with Open webOS. The cuts to software engineers hit multiple divisions across the webOS group.

WebOS Internals working with HP on getting Isis browser and QtWebKit on current devices

Open source homebrew development group WebOS Internals has the cooperation of HP to implement the just-released QtWebKit framework and Isis browser onto currently-available webOS devices like the TouchPad tablet. Timeframe, weeks.

Linux Standard Kernel 3.3 to include Android drivers

"All drivers of Android will be included in Linux kernel 3.3 the LSK. Isn't that interesting?"

Open webOS governance model modeled after the Apache Way

HP releases Open webOS' new browser Isis, JavaScript core, and Enyo UI widgets

HP's released their February roadmap commitment, consisting of a new QtWebKit-based Isis browser, the JavaScript core implementation, and UI widgets for the Enyo 2.0 application framework.

What is this Open webOS 1.0?

“The 1.0 release of Open webOS will include many new features, technologies, and enhancements, benefitting from HP’s ongoing development of the code. This work will also have the effect improving performance on a variety of hardware.”

Open webOS 1.0, Enyo 2.0, and fulfilling the revised dream

Sometimes things don't work out the way you intended. That's the case with webOS, time and time again. With open source webOS is pivoting once more and revising the dream of what it is to be webOS.

Enyo is all up in your browsers, and there's nothing you can do about it

As part of the new enyojs.com website, HP's posted a few demos of Enyo working in the browser, and it's fascinating stuff to see what we've used on webOS tablets translated to a web browser.

The Enyo logo. It's a badge, chevrons, E, modularity, and Palm homage all in one

First open source Enyo app jumping to other platforms: Paper Mache on Android, FlashCards everywhere

One of the advantages of an open soure application framework is already seeing the light of day: expansion to new platforms. webOS developers wasted no time in porting their apps to other platforms, including Android and the web.

HP announces Enyo 2.0 application framework, open sources 1.0

In addition to a roadmap, HP has fully open sourced the Enyo 1.0 application framework and announced the Enyo 2.0 framework. Both will allow developers to use Enyo to build apps using Enyo that can be made to run on other platforms such as iOS and Android as well as in all major desktop web browsers.

HP's open source webOS roadmap

The open source webOS project gets a timeframe (fully open source by September 2012), a new kernel (Linux standard), and much more.

HP appoints Bill Veghte as new Chief Strategy Officer, to lead webOS open source initiative

HP's got a new Chief Strategy Officer, and his name is Bill Veghte. He comes from within HP and will still retain his EVP of Software position. As part of the CSO role, he'll be leading HP's Cloud and webOS open source initiatives.

Pitching open source webOS

Are you a mobile device maker?
Do you need a robust and web-based platform for your next tablet?
Do you have a massive stack of patents that you can throw at Apple's face while you run away?

PalmCast Episode 152 - Open Source

Decoding open source for webOS and beyond

Now that HP has decided (for now) to keep webOS alive while converting it to an open source operating system, we thought it might be helpful to help explain what open source software is (and isn’t) and how being open source might impact on webOS’ future.

The hurdles to an open source webOS

The operating system as it stands today contains a number of parts that have been licensed from other parties, and HP can't go and distribute somebody else's work into the open source realm. What HP has to do is "scrub" webOS, to go through it and pick out all of the proprietary bits that they don't own and replace them with already available open source code, create their own code and distribute it as open source, or - if not vital to the operation of webOS - distribute the open source project without it.

PreDoodle - Potential pitfalls of open source

The "OS" in "webOS" should have always meant "Open Source" [editoral]

Where HP had committees and management problems, webOS now has a fighting chance to live out its purpose completely and become the open sourced mobile platform that Android could only dream of becoming. So why is an open source webOS the answer to all of our wishes? Let me count the ways....

HP's done with smartphones, so where do you go from here? [poll]

Alright, HP, let's work this out... [editorial]

You’re open sourcing webOS with the intention of maybe eventually making new hardware, and in the meantime hoping that somebody puts it onto other devices? So with Android already available, widely-adopted, and a light-year or two ahead of webOS, what manufacturer in their right mind would pick webOS?

Whitman: HP will make new webOS tablets, eventually, but not smartphones

“The answer to that is yes but what I can't tell you is whether that will be in 2012 or not. But we will use webOS in new hardware, but it's just going to take us a little longer to reorganize the team in a quite different direction than we've been taking it in the past.”

webOS is dead, long live webOS

We find ourselves at the middle road between a rocketship into space with new devices or a coffin made of TouchPads. It’s a road, and it’s heading into the desert, and frankly we don’t know where it goes or how far we have to go to get there or if we have enough gas to make it.

HP open sourcing webOS, your reaction [poll]

The open source plan

HP plans to open up webOS to open source, all the way down to the Linux core. Also to be made open source will be the Enyo application framework. The release will happen in stages, but eventually it'll all be out.

HP to open source webOS, no hardware plans or partners announced

HP is contributing webOS and the Enyo framework fully to the open source community. The intention of the move is to "accelerate the open development of the webOS platform" with HP helping to lead the charge with significant code and monetary infusions. The announcement of webOS going open source brings to an end months of speculation about what HP would do with the operating system.