GNOME Foundation partners with Purism to support its efforts to build the Librem 5 smartphone

Last week KDE announced that they wereworking with Purism on the Librem 5 smartphone. The GNOME Foundation hasalso providedits endorsement and support of Purism's efforts to build the Librem 5."As part of the collaboration, if the campaign is successful the GNOME Foundation plans to enhance GNOME shell and general performance of the system with Purism to enable features on the Librem 5.Various GNOME technologies are used extensively in embedded devices today, and GNOME developers have experienced some of the challenges that face mobile computing specifically with the Nokia 770, N800 and N900, the One Laptop Per Child project's XO laptop and FIC's Neo1973 mobile phone."