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Below are some Open Source activities we have already announced collected for your convenience.
RIM is going to work more openly with the WebKit.org community. As indicated by George Staikos at webkit-dev on Oct 15:
Hi all,
I'm writing to inform you that we are preparing to land the QNX WebKit port. Since 2009, RIM (BlackBerry) has been integrating WebKit into its products and contributing to the WebKit open source project. Our dedication to WebKit includes shipping it on all current products, contributing software to the project, as well as supporting some key people who are employed to work part-time or full-time on the webkit.org tree. To date, our ports have not been integrated into the webkit.org repository. However, this is in the process of changing as we are now integrating our QNX port into Subversion. We are in the final stages of preparing a public build bot, rebaselining test results, and rebasing our port to the tip of tree. Many of our QNX related changes are already integrated and we plan to begin submitting the rest shortly in coordination with additional upcoming open source initiatives. It is our intention to do more development on our QNX port at webkit.org, and we look forward to any comments or suggestions on our approach. We're excited to be working openly together with the community!
Sincerely,
The WebKit development team from RIM, QNX, and Torch Mobile (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
Note: Back in July we posted WebKit Contributions for BlackBerry Smartphones. George's above statement regards contributing the changes back to the upstream community so they are useable by the whole community.
We are porting Apache CouchDB to work with BlackBerry© Tablet OS. In preparation we have already ported Erlang-OTP and Mozilla SpiderMonkey.
An initial port of Qt, including Qt core, used in Cascades, is already available. More details in a future announcement.
The sources for the WebGL-based games shown during the keynotes at DevCon 2011 America will be posted to the WebGL-Samples in the near future.
Apache recently approved Callback as a project in the Apache incubator (status page). During the technical keynote at DevCon 2011 America, Lauren Hasson indicated:
RIM has been very close to the PhoneGap team over the past year and WebWorks is already the infrastructure used by PhoneGap to target BlackBerry devices. We are extremely pleased with the move to Apache and RIM will continue to support the project with direct participation and contributions.