[kde-community] Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation
Hey folks :) Pau was awesome and already requested the devroom and stand for us for FOSDEM 2016. The call for maintrack speakers is also open now. If you can think of something cool please do submit a talk. It'd be great to have one of us on the main stage talking about a KDE-related topic. If you need help let me know. Cheers Lydia -- Forwarded message -- From: Alasdair G Kergon Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:14 PM Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation To: fos...@lists.fosdem.org FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Renowned for being highly developer-oriented, the event brings together some 5000+ geeks from all over the world. The sixteenth edition will take place on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st January 2016 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels. We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms, stands and lightning talks. Main Tracks --- Previous editions have featured main tracks centered around security, operating system development, community building, and many other topics. Presentations are expected to be 50 minutes long and should cater to a varied technical audience. The conference covers reasonable travel expenses agreed in advance and arranges accommodation for accepted main track speakers. Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit This year, submissions will be reviewed in two batches, beginning with those received by 16 October. Questions or remarks? Contact us at prog...@fosdem.org. Key dates: 16 October - deadline for first batch of main track proposals 30 October - final deadline for main track proposals 2 November onwards - main track talks announced (in batches) Developer Rooms --- Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work together on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc. Content may be scheduled in any format, subject to approval. Popular formats include presentation tracks, hacking sessions and panel discussions. Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries are strongly encouraged. Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at https://fosdem.org/devroom which contains further information. Questions or remarks? Contact us at devro...@fosdem.org. Key dates: 9 October - deadline for developer room proposals 19 October - accepted developer rooms announced 2 November (or earlier) - developer rooms issue Calls for Participation 18 December (or earlier) - developer rooms publish complete schedules Stands -- FOSDEM offers open source and free software projects the opportunity to display their work during the event. At its stand, a project can share information, demo software, sell merchandise, give away goodies, and so on, and personally interact with the visitors. What we offer: - one 180x80cm table, positioned in one of the buildings with developer rooms, for the entire duration of the conference. In some cases, a second table may be possible, if you have a good reason to need two. - two chairs per table - one power socket type C/E (if you require adapters or additional sockets, please bring them yourself) - fast uplink shared wireless Internet access To apply, please fill out the form at: https://fosdem.org/stands which contains further information. Questions or remarks? Contact us at sta...@fosdem.org. Key dates: 13 November - deadline for stand proposals 30 November - accepted stands announced Lightning talks --- Lighting talks are short - 15 minutes - talks on a wide variety of topics. Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open source or free software topic can apply. We particularly encourage topics that do not fit in any of the developer rooms. Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf: https://fosdem.org/submit Please select "Lightning Talks" in the "track" field. Questions or remarks? Contact us at lightningta...@fosdem.org. Key dates: 27 November - deadline for lightning talk proposals 14 December - accepted lightning talks announced All deadlines are at 23.59 UTC. ___ FOSDEM mailing list fos...@lists.fosdem.org https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/fosdem -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher KDE e.V. Board of Directors / KDE Community Working Group http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Blacklisting of free.fr
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Sunday 27 September 2015 09:32:32 Ben Cooksley wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> In 48 hours, i'll be blacklisting the entire of free.fr from KDE email >> infrastructure. This is necessary as it has become apparent that the >> security of @free.fr addresses is quite poor - allowing for >> subscribers accounts to be targeted, hacked, and then used to abuse >> KDE infrastructure. >> >> Please note that this is not the fault of the people using @free.fr >> addresses - despite multiple attempts to use different passwords, etc. >> their accounts continue to be breached and customer service is >> completely unresponsive to complaints surrounding this issue. >> >> If anyone has any queries regarding this, please let us know. > > Shall we, the list admins, inform the corresponding subscribers resp. > the list(s)? I'd suggest forwarding the email on to the subscribers - yes. Note that this will not stop them from receiving email from our lists - just sending to them. > > If yes, then it would be great if there was a web page stating the > current status and possibly also the past status, so that we can point > the affected subscribers to this page. This web page might also put some > public pressure on free.fr. Otherwise, I'll refer to your message > (https://marc.info/?l=kde-community&m=144329957703751). Please see https://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/MailInfrastructureBlacklist > > > Regards, > Ingo Cheers, Ben > > ___ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github in the light of the KDE manifesto
On September 25, 2015 01:16:46 PM Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > On 25 September 2015 at 13:15, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > > On Thursday, September 24, 2015 07:35:41 PM Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > >> I really do not want the excellent parts of this impassioned > >> discussion to get lost! We've wondered about it before, and perhaps it > >> is time to look at this issue again. > > > > A web ui? > > I think that more and more github should be our real competitor, we should > > strive for the same user-friendliness... :-) > > > > A crazy idea: why don't we unite our weight with the one of sister free > > software projects (GNOME, Wikimedia, ...) to create a free ecosystem > > (with > > personal repos and organization, exactly like github) where free projects > > can be hosted, develop and flourish? > > > > If we all decide to host our code on the same resources, we can make this > > work! With our developer weight visibility is guaranteed! United we > > stand... > e.g. Gitlab? Or Phabricator, since we as a community have choosen it? Whatever we choose, we can always improve to make it better anyways. Though I think if we are going to move in this direction, the CI behind it needs to be more flexible, like Travis CI I'm thinking (used by many Github projects, but is Github specific). Our current CI is wonderful for our uses, just thinking for this grand unified plan. -- Matthew signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
[kde-community] Forum improvements
Thanks to the community effort, the KDE Forum's structure is clearly much natural now! Since good investments have been made here, next how about taking steps towards two things. Posting here so perhaps people accustomed with web services read this. Excuse me if this is already on someone's desk. 1. Making forum notifications useful 2. Making forums mobile-friendly 3. Solution to avoid mixing local and archived forums with the global ones Issues I see at least: Ad 1. 1) Actually it's like <> mail subject and there's no clear idea that it's from KDE. No user name assigned to forum-ad...@kde.org or a [KDE Forum] in the subject. It grabs a few seconds more from every attempt of scanning my mailboxes... 2) Notifications somehow form a true login-walled Internet -- more than github notifications I'd say - clicking on the link for the subject brings me to a login page - quite unexpected on mobile device. So what I do when I expect answer to an important topic is: navigating (nightmare on mobile device) to the topic and click via subsequent pages to find the answer 3) Actually the notifications would decrease the traffic _if_ the content was injected in the notification screen if that's my wish; the forum engine we're using seems to be optimised to boost the visit count to get more from ads... something we totally don't need. Ad 2. The layout is like a single word in width in a phone browser; someone who knows how to apply html screen parameters correctly might be able to fix it (in the style sheets?) for most cases or by googling "phpBB-Mobile". Ad 3. Localized KDE forums (many Persian for example) and archived forums account for quite a few of the entire forum list. [1] Would it be possible to have a filter (ON or OFF by default?) e.g. in the account settings, so actual search results and browsing hierarchy is a bit simpler for many users? [1] http://i.imgur.com/xAEukdF.png -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github in the light of the KDE manifesto
>> > work! With our developer weight visibility is guaranteed! United we >> > stand... >> e.g. Gitlab? > Or Phabricator, since we as a community have choosen it? +1 Cheerio, Ivan -- KDE, ivan.cu...@kde.org, http://cukic.co/ gpg key id: 850B6F76 ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
[kde-community] A call for finding Free imgur replacement
Hi, Not everyone uses it but some KDE people do: imgur.com and similar services for online image pastes. Including me. The usage rate is much heavier than hithub but it's not indicated it as a big deal. But it is: bug report, review requests, emails (including mailing lists) and wikis link to these files that disappear after months or weeks. The effect is: losing information, losing the backlog. Equivalent Free services do not exist to my knowledge. I mean equivalent, with public access working with the pastebin plasmoid for example. There's some attempt to use a storage within the VDG but from what I see it's not equivalent of the image pastes. Also phab's Pholio [1] is not equivalent of the basic pastes, and is login-walled. We cannot even link to these images from KDE blogs... Similar issue are images on "kde" blogs that sit outside of http://blogs.kde.org. I am using the latter but its images storage support is so 90s that I upload images elsewhere. I imagine may people use Blogger or Wordpress with proprietary storage just like that of github or imgur. Maybe someone has ideas? Is it too resource-hungry to have? [1] https://phabricator.kde.org/pholio/new/ -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Forum improvements
Il Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:48:02 +0200, Jaroslaw Staniek ha scritto: Hello Jaroslaw, > towards two things. Posting here so perhaps people accustomed with web > services read this. Excuse me if this is already on someone's desk. As far as I know, no one is working on the forum code. Some of your suggestions make sense, but I can't really discuss them here because we have a much larger obstacle ahead first: the upgrade to phpBB 3.1. Despite being a "minor" version, phpBB 3.1 is nothing like phpBB 3.0. In fact, I don't think, to my limited understanding, very close code wise. An upgrade to the forum is hard because we have a lot of modifications: - Brainstorm (not sure how many use that nowadays, but it's there) - Mod tools (quick ban for spammers) - Search - The theme itself - ... Currently the staff has no time to even think about this upgrade, which will become necessary sooner or later. And if anyone wonders about a GSoC, I don't think it qualifies as GSoC material, and unfortunately even if it did, I'd have no time for mentoring. We need someone from the community, preferably *more* than one person as it's a large task, with good PHP knowledge, which could help us. Sorry for hijacking your thread. > So what I do when I expect answer to an important topic is: navigating > (nightmare on mobile device) to the topic and click via subsequent pages > to find the answer I'm not sure if they changed in 3.1 compared to 3.0, as I didn't look closely enough. > able to fix it (in the style sheets?) for most cases or by googling > "phpBB-Mobile". We need someone to help us with the theming, but doing it for phpbb 3.0 is IMO a wasted effort. > Would it be possible to have a filter (ON or OFF by default?) e.g. in I'm not sure it is possible (again, unsure about phpBB 3.1). -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: A29D259B ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Forum improvements
Thanks for the updates Luca. Yes, as I imagined no updates in this area come entirely for free. Good that you mentioned this underinvested area. I think more actively asking for supporting this part of the infrastructure make sense. People are using it after all and benefiting from it. It's a huge part of KDE working behind the scenes. Perhaps "free software needs free tools" is easy to say and harder make reality. And keep as such. I prefer to combine that with other saying: "for your work use the best tools money can buy". On 28 September 2015 at 20:22, Luca Beltrame wrote: > Il Mon, 28 Sep 2015 15:48:02 +0200, Jaroslaw Staniek ha scritto: > > Hello Jaroslaw, > >> towards two things. Posting here so perhaps people accustomed with web >> services read this. Excuse me if this is already on someone's desk. > > As far as I know, no one is working on the forum code. Some of your > suggestions make sense, but I can't really discuss them here because we > have a much larger obstacle ahead first: the upgrade to phpBB 3.1. > > Despite being a "minor" version, phpBB 3.1 is nothing like phpBB 3.0. In > fact, I don't think, to my limited understanding, very close code wise. > An upgrade to the forum is hard because we have a lot of modifications: > > - Brainstorm (not sure how many use that nowadays, but it's there) > - Mod tools (quick ban for spammers) > - Search > - The theme itself > - ... > > Currently the staff has no time to even think about this upgrade, which > will become necessary sooner or later. And if anyone wonders about a GSoC, > I don't think it qualifies as GSoC material, and unfortunately even if it > did, I'd have no time for mentoring. > > We need someone from the community, preferably *more* than one person as > it's a large task, with good PHP knowledge, which could help us. > > Sorry for hijacking your thread. > > >> So what I do when I expect answer to an important topic is: navigating >> (nightmare on mobile device) to the topic and click via subsequent pages >> to find the answer > > I'm not sure if they changed in 3.1 compared to 3.0, as I didn't look > closely enough. > >> able to fix it (in the style sheets?) for most cases or by googling >> "phpBB-Mobile". > > We need someone to help us with the theming, but doing it for phpbb 3.0 is > IMO a wasted effort. > >> Would it be possible to have a filter (ON or OFF by default?) e.g. in > > I'm not sure it is possible (again, unsure about phpBB 3.1). > > -- > Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team > KDE Science supporter > GPG key ID: A29D259B > > ___ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Forum improvements
Il Mon, 28 Sep 2015 23:57:49 +0200, Jaroslaw Staniek ha scritto: > I think more actively asking for supporting this part of the > infrastructure make sense. People are using it after all and benefiting IMO, first we need a better retention rate. KDE unfortunately was never good at keeping poeple working on web stuff. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: A29D259B ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] A call for finding Free imgur replacement
On Monday, September 28, 2015 7:52:29 PM CEST Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > Hi, > Not everyone uses it but some KDE people do: imgur.com and similar > services for online image pastes. > Including me. > > The usage rate is much heavier than hithub but it's not indicated it > as a big deal. > But it is: bug report, review requests, emails (including mailing > lists) and wikis link to these files that disappear after months or > weeks. > The effect is: losing information, losing the backlog. > > Equivalent Free services do not exist to my knowledge. I mean > equivalent, with public access working with the pastebin plasmoid for > example. What about paste.opensuse.org - that's what I use for screenshot sharing. Cheers Martin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
