The source code of the MeeGo mobile operating system – a collaborative effort of the MeeGo community comprising Intel and Nokia - was Thursday opened to outside developers. The release of the MeeGo distribution infrastructure and operating system base to open source developers included images pertaining to three builds – namely, the Intel Atom-based netbooks; ARM-based Nokia N900; and Intel Atom-based smartphones running on Moorestown chip.

Noting that MeeGo thus far comprises a Linux kernel and OS infrastructure up to the middleware layer, Imad Sousou - director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center – wrote on the MeeGo community blog that all that is currently available has been placed in online repositories that had been made accessible to open source developers on Wednesday.

Sousou elaborated: “The MeeGo common core includes the various key subsystems -- including the core operating system libraries, the comms and telephony services, Internet and social networking services, visual services, media services, data management, device services and personal devices.” Intel and Nokia’s MeeGo community, which essentially is attempting to attract developers to yet another open source operating system for mobile devices, will post more releases in the next few days.

As per the MeeGo road map, the next-scheduled release will be reference user experiences for netbooks and handsets; the May release of MeeGo 1.0; the October release of version 1.1; and new releases every six months thereafter.