Waldo,
It is a great idea and we will certainly participate on the topics
suggested. I always thought that a pre-requisite to creating great
desktop applications is a great development environment. I think Linux
still sucks in this area. Maybe it is another topic you can add to see
how more focused efforts can be applied to some of the existing IDEs to
make it easier for a Windows developer to migrate over.
Thanks,
Ming
Bastian, Waldo wrote:
I have not seen any response to this. That either means you think it's a
great idea or that it's such a bad idea that you can't be bothered to
even respond to it. It's very hard to justify spending time and money on
this if there is no visible support for this so I would very much
appreciate it if everyone on this list would give a quick reply with its
thoughts on the proposal below.
Cheers,
Waldo
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Subject: [Desktop_architects] Summits at Desktop Developers Conference
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As a result of desktop architects meeting in december of last year,
OSDL
DTL is assisting with the organisation of three dedicated summits
around
printing, wireless and power management in April 2006. In order to
maintain the momentum that has been created with these efforts OSDL DTL
is currently working together with the organizers of the Desktop
Developers Conference (DDC) in Ottawa, July 17-18, to have summits
associated with this event as well.
The current proposal is to expand the two days of DDC with a third day
dedicated to summits around three different topics. Summit participants
will be encouraged to give a presentation during one of the first two
days while the third day will be dedicated to working sessions.
Currently three preliminary topics for these summits have been
identified:
* Linux on laptops: Including hardware support, wireless, power
management, docking support, external display and high level aspects
such as roaming support.
* The 3D Linux Desktop: 3D support affects the X server, window
manager,
compositing manager and desktop applications. How does it all fit
together? How can 3D be used to improve the end user experience?
* Sound and multimedia: Hardware support, multimedia frameworks and
codecs.
Some other suggestions for topics that have been received include:
* Usability
* Accessability
* Follow up to Portland initiative
The DDC organisation will decide by Friday, March 3 on the topics for
the summits and would like to hear your opinion on the preliminary
topics and/or additional topic suggestions before that time. You can do
so by replying to this e-mail on the desktop architects mailinglist. In
particular we are looking for topics that would benefit from increased
collaboration between different projects/organisations.
Note that there is a second desktop architects meeting (DAM-2) planned
for May 8-9 in France, if a topic doesn't get selected for DDC there is
the potential to address it at the DAM-2. Note also that it will be
possible to give individual presentation during DDC on topics outside
the predetermined topic areas.
Waldo Bastian
Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group
Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman
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