Hi all, I'm a bit late, but here are some notes I took at the DAM meeting. They're probably far from being complete. Other GNOME people who were there can hopefully join in and complete them or correct my errors ;-)
Comments are of course welcome. Here's a list of concrete actions some GNOME people could do: - look that portland doesn't do anything we don't like, or go and do the GNOME part of the job - join the LSB mailing lists and be active there - help pushing the freedesktop.org spec out of the draft status - help with GNOME certification Everyone should feel free to help with any of those items. If you want to help with one item, but don't know how, just send a mail. + Portland project - general feeling of nearly everyone was that it's sad that GNOME is not involved in this effort - would be nice to get someone to at least look at the project and provide feedback - Waldo and some KDE people wanted to make a joint GNOME/KDE statement about the project ("we love it"). Is this something we want to do? + Standards - lots of LSB discussion. It seems a GNOME guy would be highly welcome on the LSB lists to provide feedback. - discussion on a common packaging/installation system. Not really relevant to GNOME. - some freedesktop.org discussion. Some specs should really leave the draft status. - some KDE people thought that GNOME was not involved enough on xdg-list. I'm not sure why. + Cooperation with Asia - general agreement that there was no communication between the asian projects (mostly the distributions) and us (= GNOME/KDE/etc.) - there's a United Nations guy who can be a bridge for this - there'll be an effort to make people meet at OLS: project manager & technical lead for all asian efforts, and some of us. - OLS meeting will be followed up by another meeting 4 or 6 months later - we should try to send people in asian regional events to show that we're interested in what's happening there (they don't seem to know that we're interested in that) - inviting some managers from asian projects to events such as GUADEC might be a good idea - from the desktop_architects mailing list: "speaking points were around education, developer integration, community exposure, internationalization/localization, and cultural/language hurdles" (this is a good summary) + Multimedia - to be honest, I'm not sure there were some real conclusions here except the consensus that creating a kind of "standard" would help. Christian probably has more details. - a lot of people love GStreamer ;-) + Nobody knows how to contact GNOME - people usually contact Nat or Jeff or... - they're not aware of a central point of communication - the board should probably be this point - we should put a list of our known representatives in other organizations on the website - it would probably make sense to have more rep people (eg, it might be nice to have someone who would be a bridge between freedesktop.org and GNOME so we don't miss any important discussion there) + People are not aware of our sysadmin guide. - library.gnome.org should help with this + planned deprecation mechanism - Xorg has a mechanism for deprecation for libraries - we probably need to think about this in GNOME + aKademy will try to have a track on standards. - it's in Dublin, at the end of September. - maybe we should send some people there? + We definitely need to put the GNOME certification back on track - is this something we could manage to do before, say, September? - should we cooperate with the LSB people wherever it makes sense? + Next DAM meeting will probably be in December. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list