Hi fellow LXDE friends, as you might know Desktop Summit [1] currently takes place in Berlin and we took the opportunity to meet up for the "Lightweight Desktop Summit" [2].
Please find attached the meeting minutes of our meeting on Sunday. Theyare also available at http://titanpad.com/lightsm11 Regards, Christoph [1] https://desktopsummit.org/ [2] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Lightweight_Desktop_Summit_2011 ==================================================== Begin minutes ==================================================== Lightweight Meet up 2011 c/o desktop summit Attendees Christian Dywan (Xfce) [email protected] Andrea Florio (openSUSE) [email protected] Mario Behling (LXDE) [email protected] Julien Lavergne (Lubuntu) [email protected] Christoph Wickert (Fedora) [email protected] AGENDA * What happened during 2010/11 * Financial status * Foundations sent out invitations * organized online activities * was present at events: FOSSASIA, Desktop Summit, participated in calls for donations e.g. Thomas Krenn Future of LXDE Foundation/Project 1. collect donations? 2. set up servers 'in-berlin' - Mario talks to Sven and in-berlin, Christoph checks on companies that want to sponsor servers 3. reduce costs use resources more efficiently by using existing events (Christian) a join Desktop Summit: who to discuss with (Andrea) * how to bring people from Europe/America and Asia together (Julien) * We need face to face meet ups (all) * Consensus we all need to meet up at the desktop summit b) Desktop Summit 2012 * Propose to developers on Mailing list * Need to make a budget plan * Need a responsible for Desktop Summit from LXDE project's side * LXDE Foundation can be used to get donations * Need to Contact from KDE/Gnome - Who is it? Christoph has contacts e.g. Claudia Rauch * Need to talk to main organizers about talk in big rooms: LXDE and XFCE to give keynotes * Find locals to support organization in city that is chosen for Desktop Summit 2012 * Separate work locally and on a project level: Who could do it? What are the responsibilities? Local: Support organization set up, checking infrastructure, catering, airport pick up Global Project: Responsible for calls for donations, call for speakers, contact for project and decision contact for talks/rooms etc., decide on travel sponsorship with project contributors Collaboration Light DEs * exo (source package): upstream contribution by LXDE developers (Christoph will talk to PCMan etc.) * preferred applications - agree on a common framework * proposal to freedesktop.org: setting mechanism, uri x_scheme handler (Christoph/Christian) Getting more contributors Ideas * How about pushing it with interns like KDE - could any companies host interns? - what could interns do - do we need funding to pay some support to interns or could companies do that? * Google Summer of Code (Christian) - who could be a mentor for the future - how to choose students (Mario: prefers people who are known or contributed before) - how about people who help certain distros with LXDE? * Booths at events ==================================================== End minutes ==================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Lxde-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list
