Le jeudi 9 février 2023 à 7:44 PM, Paul Brown <[email protected]> a écrit :
> On Thursday, 9 February 2023 17:27:36 CET Rohan Garg wrote: > > > Hi > > > Hello Rohan, > > First of all, thanks for doing this! Yeah thank Rohan for helping with the booth! > > > I've just wrapped up attending State of Open Con 2023 and thought I'd > > share my thoughts with the community while they're still fresh. > > > Great idea. We'll copy it over as a post-mortem for the event for next time. > > > State of OpenCon 2023 was very well organized and brought together a > > diverse set of people from across the software industry. There seems > > to be good mix of newcomers to the open source community as well as > > open source industry veterans. > > > > I didn't really get a chance to attend talks but had plenty of > > opportunities to chat with people in the hallway track as well as > > KDE's booth. > > > > Some conversations that stood out over the course of two days: > > > > - I had multiple conversations with people who still thought that > > Plasma was bloated and were pleasantly surprised to see it running on > > the Pinephone. Maybe KDE should do some promo around how we've come a > > long way? > > > Heh! This we do ALL THE TIME. It is so hard to get rid of a reputation. But, > yeah, maybe we should be more up-in-your-face about this: "Plasma: Powerful > and light!" or something. > > > - Conversations around ARM laptops being very attractive to developers > > working with cloud infrastructure. > > > > - The KDE Education suite of applications was very attractive to educators. > > > Were there many education-related people? Was there like a special track on > the matter? If so, we would definitely want to leverage that the next time > around. > > > - A brief chat with the Morello R&D team at Cambridge University. > > Apparently they have patches to get Plasma and friends working on > > Morello(?). Might be good idea to reach out to them and extend a > > invite to Akademy. > > > This sounds interesting. > > Info on the project here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/ > cheri/cheri-morello.html > > > - A lot of interest in LAS 2023. > > > > > - Questions on being able to run Android apps on the PinePhone. > > > > - Konqui was perceived as very cute and caught people's attention who > > weren't familiar with KDE. > > > > - "KDE 6, when?" > > > Late 2023, it seems. Date still to be confirmed. Stabler version in 2024. > > > - A lot of startups seem to be looking for funding and would like to > > keep their offerings open source. I pointed them towards the NLNet > > fund. > > > > - Some people were concerned about patents et all and wanted to know > > if there was some kind of organization that deals with patents in the > > open source world. I pointed them towards Open Invention Network. > > > > - There's a big push towards getting women in tech, the KDE community > > should promote such success stories within our community around this > > and talk to other NGO's working in this space. > > > We have a special group called KDE Inclusive which deals with this. Aniqa, > Lydia, and others are involved. > > > Personal thoughts on running the booth: > > > > - I think we would benefit from having things to giveaway apart from > > stickers. Other booths were giving away pens, chocolates, etc. The > > Github booth ran a raffle that got a lot of people hyped and got them > > to stay at the booth for the duration of the raffle. > > > I thing that has workd for us is to have someone painting stuff live using > Krita. That never fails to attract crowds. > > Point taken about the raffle. Maybe we can get some konqi/katie plushies made > or > something. The easiest thing is to buy candies. It's relatively cheap and people usually like that a lot ;) Cheers, Carl > > > - Shout out to Lydia for sending over the media wiki folks. Happy to > > have made some new friends :) > > > > - I think it's a good idea to run a booth again next year! > > > Sounds like it. > > Again, Thank you for you help. This is really good feedback too. > > Cheers > > Paul > -- > Promotion & Communication > > www: http://kde.org > Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde > Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ > Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity > LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde
