Re: FOSDEM 2018 call for participation
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Jos van den Oever wrote: >> So, what kind of KDE-related talks *are* there at FOSDEM? Did anyone send >> stuff in? Are there talks by "us" in other devrooms? [[ not by me, although >> I could conceivably have sent something in for BSD, or for the Identity >> rooms ]] How about (Plasma) Mobile? >> >> Vaguely related: who will be at FOSDEM, from the KDE community? > > I sent in a talk about Rust Qt Binding Generator for the Rust room. I do now > know yet if it's been accepted. Many devrooms are still scheduling their talks. There have been a whopping 1304 talk proposals this year, it takes some time. @Jos: your talk is still undecided IIRC someone asked a few weeks ago why there was no Desktops DevRoom this year. The reason is with 50+ tracks, talks usually fit better in topic-specific devrooms than in a generic devroom. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org
Re: FOSDEM 2018 call for participation
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Unfortunately this year we did not get a room for the Desktops DevRoom > :-( > > Then we should figure out how we can be represented in some of the > accepted dev rooms and show up there. The mobile one seems pretty > obvious but there is also at least the community, legal and design > rooms where I think we could have interesting things to say. Where > else? > > There are many, indeed: Embedded, Mobile and Automotive Distributions Graphics Legal and Policy Issues Open Document Editors Valgrind, GDB and Debugging Tools BSD Community ... And I guess that's exactly the reason why there is no Desktops DevRoom this year: the topics of the devroom fit very well into other devrooms. For the past 3-4 years, it was increasingly difficult to receive good talk proposals, and half the schedule was composed by talks rejected by other devrooms that I dumpster-dived :-/ -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org
Re: FOSDEM 2018 call for participation
Hello, Unfortunately this year we did not get a room for the Desktops DevRoom :-( On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > No desktop room? > https://fosdem.org/2018/news/2017-10-04-accepted-developer-rooms/ > > On 6 September 2017 at 15:24, Pau Garcia i Quiles > wrote: > > Yes, I sent an email to the kde-promo mailing list a few days ago > > > > > > On Wednesday, September 6, 2017, Jonathan Riddell > wrote: > >> > >> Call for particicpation out now > >> > >> https://fosdem.org/2018/news/2017-09-03-call-for-participation/ > >> > >> are you able to request a desktop room for desktop things and a stall > for > >> KDE? > >> > >> Jonathan > > > > > > > > -- > > Pau Garcia i Quiles > > http://www.elpauer.org > > > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org
Re: FOSDEM stall and party
Hello, What do you need? On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Anyone able to help me with organising this? I'm feeling lonely and > unloved doing it on my own and want someone to bounce decisions off. > > Jonathan > > > On 1 November 2016 at 18:11, Jonathan Riddell wrote: >> Time to start thinking about FOSDEM. >> >> https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/FOSDEM/2017 >> >> Pau has booked a dev room, please submit talks. >> >> We hope to get a stall again. Does anyone have merchandise they can >> bring or do we need to look at buying some? >> >> Should I organise a Saturday party again? It would be at the same >> place in Grand Place, cost €20 (unless anyone has some sponsorship >> money they can dig up) with food and beer. >> >> There is a proposed Plasma sprint in Stuttgart the following week. Me >> and David are thinking of doing a Brexiteers last roadtrip of freedom >> before the borders close. If you want a lift through the Channel >> Tunnel or from Brussels to Stuttgart let us know. >> >> Jonathan -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org
[Announcement] FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2017 CfP
Hello, Here is the Call for Participation for the Desktops DevRoom 2017 -8<-- FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2017/> is one of the largest (5,000+ hackers!) gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Once again, one of the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “CrossDesktop DevRoom”), which will host Desktop-related talks. We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience. Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: - Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE, Cinnamon, ReactOS, CDE etc - Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, MorphOS, etc (when talking about a FLOSS topic) - Software development for the desktop - Development tools - Applications that enhance desktops - General desktop matters - Cross-platform software development - Web - Thin clients, desktop virtualiation, etc Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of distributing a desktop application with snap vs flatpak, or as general as using HTML5 technologies to develop native applications. Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2016 schedule <https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/desktops/> might give you some inspiration. Submissions Please include the following information when submitting a proposal: - Your name - The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with around 400 from other projects) - Short abstract of one or two paragraphs - Short bio (with photo) - Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 minutes. Longer duration requests must be properly justified. You may be assigned LESS time than you request. - How to submit All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17 To submit your talk, click on "Create Event", then make sure to select the “Desktops” devroom as the “Track”. Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any devroom at all. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact desktops-devroom AT lists DOT fosdem DOT org. Deadline The deadline for submissions is December 5th 2016. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 4 & 5 February 2017 and the Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, February 5th 2017. We will contact every submitter with a “yes” or “no” before December 11th 2016. Recording permission The talks in the Desktops DevRoom will be audio and video recorded, and possibly streamed live too. In the "Submission notes" field, please indicate that you agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example: "If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, ." If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part. More information The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org. Use this page to manage your subscription: https://lists.fosdem.org/ listinfo/desktops-devroom <https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom> Organization The Desktops DevRoom 2017 is managed by a team representing the most notable open desktops: - Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE - Christophe Fergeau, Gnome - Michael Zanetti, Unity - Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment - Jérome Leclanche, Razor If you want to join the team, please contact desktops-devroom AT lists DOT fosdem DOT org. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org
Re: [kde-community] [Kde-pim] A new home for Mozilla Thunderbird at KDE?
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Eike Hein wrote: > If we were to incubate Thunderbird, it would need to supply really > really strong answers for how it's going to pull its own weight to > offset the resource and PR cost. > > (Forgot to reply to this) I am not especially worried about this. When a company "offloads" an unwanted product or division, the agreement usually involves money exchanging hands (in this case from Mozilla to KDE) to pay for the adaptation, initial setup, maybe some developers, etc I am actually more worried about our ability to manage too many resources. One of the articles I read about Thunderbird going to some new organization mentioned the SFC was worried Thunderbird would be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, project under their umbrella. According to the financial statement for 2014 (released end of February 2015), they manage around USD 1M and their biggest project is Samba, with USD 177k. https://sfconservancy.org/docs/conservancy_independent-audit_fy-2014.pdf Mozilla, on the other hand, has around USD 137M: https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Financials_2014.pdf The eV is much smaller than any of those. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] [Kde-pim] A new home for Mozilla Thunderbird at KDE?
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Eike Hein wrote: > Make no mistake, Thunderbird is a dead project. It's built on a toolkit > that's EOL, and hardly has enough of a development community to sustain > the app, much less the stack beneath it. That it has users (like me) > that still use it despite the mounting bitrot and deteriorating > performance doesn't change that outlook. Many people who use Thunderbird > want to switch away from Thunderbird. > > It's probably the perfect moment to implement the Thunderbird UI using Qt Quick, and start replacing all the technology piece by piece. IMHO Mozilla is betting all their future on Firefox (which is declining) instead of making a recurring business of Thunderbird. What they did: abandon Thunderbird. "Sorry pals, now you are on your own" What I would have done: create a thunderbird.com service, competing with GMail and Outlook.com. Plus provide Thunderbird as a desktop/offline client, like Microsoft does with Outlook. THAT would have been a logical step: further develop one of your products, provide a cloud version, take a % of a successful existing market (e-mail outsourcing) which provides recurrent income, etc In that regard, Kolab is probably the most fit organization to get Thunderbird, as they can provide the server side already. With a SPICE-based approach like Open365 uses, a Thunderbird.com service can be in public beta in a couple of months. Once it's business case is proved and money starts coming in selling, the next step would be to have a pure-web UI, mobile app, etc. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this!
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: people can buy a tablet with e.g. plasma mobile pre-installed is VERY hard, > probably not doable, and I think the Vivaldi team tried really hard. > From my POV for mobile/embedded that's actually even harder than for PCs, > where you have standardized hardware. > > So, do we see a place where it could take off ? > > Sure we do. About 3.5 years ago, I made a proposal to run KDE software on Android Core instead of Mer: http://www.elpauer.org/2012/09/plasma-active-on-android/ Two weeks ago, at Akademy-es, when I saw the current status of Plasma Mobile (essentially only works where Ubuntu Phone works), I asked. What Bhushan is doing is very good: LXC containers on top of CyanogenMod. That opens Plasma Mobile to essentially every platform where CyanogenMod works. It is a huge leap from the current state of affairs. What I would like to see is one step further, the same proposal I made 3.5 years ago: get rid of Android UI and run Plasma Mobile on top of Android Core. In fact, let's have a "Plasma Mobile ROM Cooker" that takes an official ROM for your Android device, de-Androidizes it, and then injects Plasma Mobile for Android Core (I think Boot to Qt does something in that line). That would make Plasma Mobile run on essentially every Android device with an unlocked bootloader, and quick: hardware support comes from Android Core. Chinese Android TV box retailers in AliExpress are already offering (and doing) to replace Android with OpenELEC (I ported OpenELEC myself to one of those boxes!). No warranty and everything but they do it and you receive a TV Box with a pure Linux OpenELEC. It would not be crazy to provide them with Android Core-based Plasma Mobile ROM sfor a few popular phones (THL, XiaoMi, Doogee, ZTE, etc), and see if they want to sell them. In fact, as of today, if you want a Jolla tablet with Sailfish, they fastest and cheapest way is to buy the tablet from a Chinese retailer in TaoBao and ask them to install the Sailfish OS 2.0 ROM (they explicitly advertise it!). -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] fosdem 2016
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Wednesday, December 09, 2015 06:26:59 PM Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > And there's only 1 talk that has been submitted from KDE, please consider > > what is interesting in KDE that you can talk about and submit a talk > > > http://www.elpauer.org/2015/12/extension-fosdem-2016-desktops-devroom-call-> > for-talks/ > > I would have re-submitted my talk proposal, but still haven't heard nor > confirmation nor reject from the main commitee > > Please submit your talk to the Desktops DevRoom NOW. We have already started voting in Desktops. The main committee is late this year. In case your talk is selected by both main and desktops, you'll decide what you want to do. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016: Call for Participation
Hello, Just a quick mail to remind everybody we will accept talk proposals for the Desktops DevRoom at FOSDEM 2016 only until this Saturday. Hurry up! On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation > > FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in > the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). One of > the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “CrossDesktop > DevRoom”), which will host Desktop-related talks. > > We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source > Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and > interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity > to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience. > > Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: > >- Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE, >Cinnamon, ReactOS, etc > >- Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, CDE, MorphOS, etc (when talking >about a FLOSS topic) > >- Software development for the desktop > >- Development tools > >- Applications that enhance desktops > >- General desktop matters > >- Cross-platform software development > >- Web > > > Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of > development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; or as general as predictions > for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of > interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are > especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2015 schedule[1] might give you some > inspiration. > > > Submissions > > Please include the following information when submitting a proposal: > >- Your name > >- The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be >listed with around 400 from other projects) > >- Short abstract of one or two paragraphs > >- Short bio (with photo) > >- Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 >minutes. Longer duration requests must be properly justified. You may be >assigned LESS time than you request. > > > How to submit > > All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: > > https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 > > When submitting your talk, make sure to select the "Desktops" devroom as > the "Track". Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any > devroom. > > If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your > talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, > you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with > Pentabarf, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org. > > > Deadline > > The deadline for submissions is December 6th 2015. > > FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 30th and 31st 2015 and the > Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, January 31st 2015. > > We will contact every submitter with a "yes" or "no" before December 18th > 2015. > > > Recording permission > > The talks in the Desktops devroom will be audio and video recorded, and > possibly streamed live too. > > By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license > the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. > > If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have > one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part. > > > More information > > The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing > list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org. > > Use this page to manage your subscription: > > https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom > > > Organization > > The Desktops DevRoom 2016 is managed by a team representing the most > notable open desktops: > > >- Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE > >- Christophe Fergeau, Gnome > >- Michael Zanetti, Unity > >- Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment > >- Jérome Leclanche, Razor > > > If you want to join the team, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org > > -- > Pau Garcia i Quiles > http://www.elpauer.org > (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] fosdem 2016
On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: Looks like it's time to organise for FOSDEM 2016. > > Last year I had a Saturday night party at a nice city centre location > with food funded by the Ubuntu community fund. This year I doubt that > fund is open to me. Would it be interesting if I organised it again > at the same place and charged say €20 for food and X number of beers? > > I'm in -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
[kde-community] FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016: Call for Participation
FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). One of the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “CrossDesktop DevRoom”), which will host Desktop-related talks. We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience. Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: - Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE, Cinnamon, ReactOS, etc - Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, CDE, MorphOS, etc (when talking about a FLOSS topic) - Software development for the desktop - Development tools - Applications that enhance desktops - General desktop matters - Cross-platform software development - Web Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; or as general as predictions for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2015 schedule[1] might give you some inspiration. Submissions Please include the following information when submitting a proposal: - Your name - The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be listed with around 400 from other projects) - Short abstract of one or two paragraphs - Short bio (with photo) - Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 minutes. Longer duration requests must be properly justified. You may be assigned LESS time than you request. How to submit All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16 When submitting your talk, make sure to select the "Desktops" devroom as the "Track". Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any devroom. If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org. Deadline The deadline for submissions is December 6th 2015. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 30th and 31st 2015 and the Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, January 31st 2015. We will contact every submitter with a "yes" or "no" before December 18th 2015. Recording permission The talks in the Desktops devroom will be audio and video recorded, and possibly streamed live too. By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license. If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part. More information The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org. Use this page to manage your subscription: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom Organization The Desktops DevRoom 2016 is managed by a team representing the most notable open desktops: - Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE - Christophe Fergeau, Gnome - Michael Zanetti, Unity - Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment - Jérome Leclanche, Razor If you want to join the team, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On 22 October 2015 at 13:56, Pau Garcia i Quiles > wrote: > >> The devroom has been confirmed. We will publish a call for talks in week. >> > > I have submitted my KDE talk as a keynote or main track. > Is there any overlap? > > No problem. Last year we fished from declined keynotes and main tracks for other desktop-related talks. It was a big success and we had two high-profile speakers (Stormy Peters and Quim Gil) we would have otherwise missed. In any case, if you are declined as a keynote/main track talk, please submit it for the Desktops DevRoom, in case we overlook some declined talk. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation
Hello, The devroom has been confirmed. We will publish a call for talks in week. We have no word of the stand yet, it is usually confirmed by mid-December or even later. I'll keep you posted. On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Hello, > > Great, thank you. We are still months away from confirmation of the > devroom but I'm confident we will get it. > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Riccardo Iaconelli > wrote: > >> Just FYI, I plan on submitting a talk... I am not sure what I could need >> help with, but in case you have ideas, please reach to me :-) >> >> -Riccardo >> Il 28/set/2015 09:19 AM, "Lydia Pintscher" ha scritto: >> >>> 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, >>> a
Re: [kde-community] Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation
>> 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 > > > ___ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM Organisation
John, You couldn't be more wrong. I have been organizing the Desktops DevRoom for the last 4-5 years (cannot really remember), so I can speak from reality. There is no discrimination against women in FOSDEM. It's just they do not submit talk proposals. Simple as that. E. g. this year we have only had one talk proposal from a woman and I had to chase her! In the very few cases where they do submit talks, more often than not when you tell them "you've got your slot" the answer will be "oh, I won't be attending, I need more time to plan". Well, sorry but everybody is notified of acceptance/rejection with exactly the same amount of time (4-6 weeks) due to the timeframe FOSDEM manages. If men can come, why can't women? (we do also have some rejections from men due to too-late notice but it's less frequent). People are overreacting with these CoC's (or lack of). For some reason, and it's not discrimination of any kind, women are by far not interested in technology and engineering. In the same way they are by far more interested in Nursery, Medicine, Psychology, Marketing & Advertising, etc than men. Is there a CoC about men for Nursery or Midwife conventions? I don't think so. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 2:21 AM, John Layt wrote: > Hi, > > Just a heads-up that I will not be attending FOSDEM next year and will > not be assisting in any way with preparations for FOSDEM or providing > any hardware. This is the result of the FOSDEM organisers refusing to > institute a proper Code of Conduct for attendees or to take any other > steps in addressing the dreadful gender ratio of speakers on their > program or attending the conference itself. I have attempted to > discuss these issues with them and found their attitude and beliefs > completely unacceptable to me. As such I cannot give them any form of > support, and sadly that means not helping the KDE community at this > event anymore. > > John. > ___ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Windows licenses
Hello, No news yet On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Mario Fux wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 26. Februar 2014, 21.23:33 schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles: > > Morning guys > >> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Martin Sandsmark >> > >> > wrote: >> On Wednesday 22. January 2014 07.23.30 Laszlo Papp wrote: >> > > Hmm, actually the generic and basic Windows license does not allow >> > > multiple remote login in my understand onto the same desktop. When I >> > > last checked it required some server license, but I cannot claim it >> > > 100% percents. >> > >> > Yes, but we get server licenses as well? >> >> Yes. It's not a fixed set of software but a list where we can pick what we >> ask for. E. g. >> >> http://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/microsoft-eligibility >> >> In order for this to move forward, I would need a generic @kde.org address >> that we can set as a contact point and does not change over time. Something >> like micros...@kde.org, or donati...@kde.org would be great. If I am to >> manage the whole request process, I will need access to that account. Who >> can I ask this for? Does the board need to approve the creation of such an >> address, or is it fine for sysadmins to do it on their own? > > Is there any news about the Windows licences? > > And a small hint. This year at Randa [1] we'd like to focus a bit on other > platforms then the classic Linux: Windows, Mac, Android, etc. > > Go to: > http://sprints.kde.org/sprint/212 > if you could and would help... > > Best regards > Mario > > [1] http://www.randa-meetings.ch -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Windows licenses
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Martin Sandsmark wrote: On Wednesday 22. January 2014 07.23.30 Laszlo Papp wrote: > > Hmm, actually the generic and basic Windows license does not allow > > multiple remote login in my understand onto the same desktop. When I > > last checked it required some server license, but I cannot claim it > > 100% percents. > > Yes, but we get server licenses as well? > > Yes. It's not a fixed set of software but a list where we can pick what we ask for. E. g. http://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/microsoft-eligibility In order for this to move forward, I would need a generic @kde.org address that we can set as a contact point and does not change over time. Something like micros...@kde.org, or donati...@kde.org would be great. If I am to manage the whole request process, I will need access to that account. Who can I ask this for? Does the board need to approve the creation of such an address, or is it fine for sysadmins to do it on their own? -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Windows licenses
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Monday 20 January 2014 23:20:48 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone tried to contact Microsoft to get KDE included in their > > non-profit program? > > > > I got confirmation from Claudia the KDE eV does comply with the > requisites > > for German organizations (attached are the terms) > > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/nonprofits/whos-el > > igible/ > > > > This could give us licenses for Windows (desktop and server) and Visual > > Studio for free (and suually more software too). The Windows Server > > licenses could be used for Jenkins build machines. > > Could this be used to provide a virtual machine (or a remote login server) > with all the Qt/KF5 build setup, so that devs not having Windows at all > could > easily test their changes? > > It depends on what version of Windows we would receive (assuming the optimistic case where we actually receive something, of course). E. g. Windows Server Datacenter version allows for unlimited Windows Server VMs. Windows Server Standard allows for only 2 Windows Server VMs. Windows Server Essentials no VMs. Windows 7/8/etc VMs are not allowed unless Software Assurance is included. Let's see if we are accepted, then we will see what we can do with whatever we receive. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Windows licenses
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:00 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > > Has anyone tried to contact Microsoft to get KDE included in their > > non-profit program? > > > > I got confirmation from Claudia the KDE eV does comply with the > requisites > > for German organizations (attached are the terms) > > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/nonprofits/whos-eligible/ > > To my knowledge, nobody has attempted to contact Microsoft in regards > to this program. > > I will take care of this -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Windows licenses
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles > wrote: > > The Windows Server licenses could be used for Jenkins build machines. > > What do you mean by that? AFAIK, Qt itself does not support Windows > Server, or you mean with something specific installed, like a > compatibility software or VM? > I was talking about using the Visual Studio licenses we would hopefully receive to compile Qt, KDE, etc on Windows Server, not running them on Windows Server -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Proper KDE SDK - was - Re: Applications in KDE Generation 5
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Where can I find the CI scripts? If someone could give me access to
> Jenkins
> > and give me a little introduction to what's already in place for CI, I
> can
> > probably help with automating the SDK generation so that it's available
> from
> > the Qt SDK Maintenance Tool.
>
> The CI scripts are located at websites/build-kde-org on git.kde.org,
> in the "production" branch.
> Please let me know if you have any questions on what they do.
>
>
How does one start? I've set JENKINS_SLAVE_HOME to where I cloned that
repository, and run setup-env.sh, but it fails with:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "tools/prepare-environment.py", line 21, in
load_projects( 'kde_projects.xml', '
http://projects.kde.org/kde_projects.xml', 'config/projects',
'dependencies/logical-module-structure' )
File
"/home/pgquiles/personal/software/kde/kf5sdk/build-kde-org/tools/kdecilib.py",
line 886, in load_projects
with open(moduleStructure, 'r') as fileHandle:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'dependencies/logical-module-structure'
(and indeed that file is not in the repository, nor has it been downloaded)
I have also skimmed over the configuration for several of the repositories
and I've noticed a few potential problems:
- If we want KF5 to be available for Qt SDK users, we should compile
with exactly the Qt version Qt SDK ships. Otherwise, we may face ABI
problems. But that means compiling everything *again*.
- What about compilation for Windows and Mac? It seems there are no
Jenkins slaves for those platforms. Or maybe I didn't read enough?
- I am a bit worried about dependencies. Qt SDK does not need to care
about dependencies because there are very few dependencies and they can be
contained in Qt Core. KDE, on the other hand, has a lot of dependencies.
Either I add a new component ("Third-party dependencies") with a long list
of subcomponents (each third party library), or I include dependencies with
each KF5 add-on (which will quickly grow into a problem, as it would need
tracking which KF5 module provides which depedency). I am open to other
suggestions.
- Is there a test build machine I could use once I have something useful?
Thank you
--
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http://www.elpauer.org
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Re: [kde-community] Proper KDE SDK - was - Re: Applications in KDE Generation 5
Hello, Where can I find the CI scripts? If someone could give me access to Jenkins and give me a little introduction to what's already in place for CI, I can probably help with automating the SDK generation so that it's available from the Qt SDK Maintenance Tool. I am attending FOSDEM, in case you think it's easier to explain in person. On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Albert Astals Cid > wrote: > > > >> > >> > * Can we create a "proper" KDE SDK? We have the SDK module which is > >> > really a mix of general development related apps and KDE-specific dev > >> > tools, and we have Examples, and we have a few other bits-and-pieces > >> > scattered around. Can we split the apps off to stand on their own > >> > repos in Extragear, and merge Examples and the other tools into SDK? > >> > >> We can, it just needs manpower ;-) > > > > > > I think I have been asking for a KDE SDK for the last 7 years :-) > > > > KF5 should make that easier, given that there are many "small" parts. > > > > Another idea: let's make the different parts of the SDK (Tier 1 > components, > > Tier 2 components, etc) available from a repository that could be > integrated > > in the Qt SDK Maintenance Tool. > > > > This task is very time consuming (lots of rebuilds and tests) but it > > shouldn't be too difficult from a technical point of view. It essentially > > requires CMake knowledge. Jenkins knowledge and access to a powerful > build > > machine would be a plus. It's a pity GSoC is so far yet :-/ > > I'd suggest this get integrated into our existing CI scripts to make > it easier to perform when needed - they already have 99% of the > structure and other necessary capability to build all of the > frameworks. I'd advise against doing this as part of a GSoC project > however - other than producing the necessary metadata to make the > "repository" there wouldn't be too much to actually code... > > The repository in question can probably be distributed via files.kde.org. > > > > > > > -- > > Pau Garcia i Quiles > > http://www.elpauer.org > > (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) > > Thanks, > Ben Cooksley > > > > > ___ > > 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 > -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Proper KDE SDK - was - Re: Applications in KDE Generation 5
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > * Can we create a "proper" KDE SDK? We have the SDK module which is > > really a mix of general development related apps and KDE-specific dev > > tools, and we have Examples, and we have a few other bits-and-pieces > > scattered around. Can we split the apps off to stand on their own > > repos in Extragear, and merge Examples and the other tools into SDK? > > We can, it just needs manpower ;-) > I think I have been asking for a KDE SDK for the last 7 years :-) KF5 should make that easier, given that there are many "small" parts. Another idea: let's make the different parts of the SDK (Tier 1 components, Tier 2 components, etc) available from a repository that could be integrated in the Qt SDK Maintenance Tool. This task is very time consuming (lots of rebuilds and tests) but it shouldn't be too difficult from a technical point of view. It essentially requires CMake knowledge. Jenkins knowledge and access to a powerful build machine would be a plus. It's a pity GSoC is so far yet :-/ -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM: video recordings
Hello, If you could tell me which talks you will be interested in, I would prepare an schedule to make sure we have someone for every talk. Thank you On 14-Jan-2014 10:25 AM, "Yannick Kiekens" wrote: > Hello, > > I live in belgium and i was going to go see several of these talks in the > desktop devroom. > I have no idea what i am getting into but i can press a record button. > > > Mvg > Yannick Kiekens > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> The FOSDEM organization would like to have every talk recorded this year. >> >> I put out a call for volunteers a week ago: >> >> >> http://www.elpauer.org/2014/01/fosdem-desktops-devroom-2014-looking-for-volunteers-for-video-recordings/ >> >> But it rendered exactly ZERO volunteers. The other projects in the >> devroom (Gnome, Enlightenment, Unity and LXQt) have been equally >> "successful", which means there will be no recordings. >> >> Anyone wants to help? >> >> Thank you >> >> -- >> Pau Garcia i Quiles >> http://www.elpauer.org >> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) >> >> ___ >> 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 > ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
[kde-community] FOSDEM: video recordings
Hello, The FOSDEM organization would like to have every talk recorded this year. I put out a call for volunteers a week ago: http://www.elpauer.org/2014/01/fosdem-desktops-devroom-2014-looking-for-volunteers-for-video-recordings/ But it rendered exactly ZERO volunteers. The other projects in the devroom (Gnome, Enlightenment, Unity and LXQt) have been equally "successful", which means there will be no recordings. Anyone wants to help? Thank you -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
