On 1/2/12 5:48 PM, "Gil Quim (Nokia-DXM/SiliconValley)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Adam Weinrich wrote: > >> There is a Qt port for QNX/BBX/RIM devices. Lets get this ecosystem >>involved in the Qt-Project! >> Yes, I know, the code is not yet in the Qt-Project repository but it >>should be forthcoming. >> The QNX/BBX/RIM ecosystem are very open to engaging with the Qt >>community and the Qt Project. > >Great! What are the steps in practice and how can someone get involved? Currently things are just getting started. If you have a playbook try Qt out on it and give feedback. Review the code in their repo. Give feedback on tooling. Attend their DevCon and engage their platform with your Qt skills. Volunteer to document, blog or demo what you've done with Qt on the playbook for qt-project.org. > >Having one and only landing page would be useful. I remember trying to >search for information on this QNX port only to find different places >scattered. Well there are actually 2 different ports, the QNX port maintained by Digia which I call the 'commercial port' is pretty much integrated with qt-project already. The QNX port for RIM devices is a different codebase in its own repo. (It uses QPA for example). RIM will use some of the Qt Libs and the QML language for its Cascades UI but I don¹t know how aggressively they will push Qt itself. If we want a landing page to make sense of it all for Qt devs hoping to target the RIM platforms we may have to populate one ourselves initially. > >> I am coordinating a Qt keynote and training at the Blackberry DevCon in >>Amsterdam in February >> http://www.blackberrydevcon.com/ as well as doing outreach to their >>developers at Mobile World Congress. >> They are offering discounts to these events to Qt-Project community. >> >> The Qt Developer Experience team will also be showing off Qt on the >>current playbook at the >> Qt booth at CES and MWC. > >Any URL, tweet or something that we can promote out there? I went through >http://www.blackberrydevcon.com/europe and after searching a lot I found >an "unscheduled" 1h session by Lars Knoll introducing Qt. It showed up >after a search in a pop-up window, so there is no URL to link to here. I'll find out from their side. We worked this out last minute before the holidays. I know we are holding off on posting the lab session details. > >In any case I have added the event to the Qt Everywhere calendar: >http://wiki.qt-project.org/Events If you have more details I'm happy >adding them. > >Most of the developers potentially interested in this are probably not >following a marketing list. Again, having a page where all this >information and links could be found would be extremely useful. I have >started promoting the link to your post in the mailing list archive. Not >the most appealing landing page but at least it's something. :) If you start it for me I'll help make sure it gets populated. > > >> Those who already owns a playbook, develops for Blackberry devices or >>are interested in becoming involved >> are encouraged to get involved with this new Qt port. >> Let me know if you have any insight or interests in making this a >>win-win for Qt and this new community. > >I guess everybody wants to see this happening with big success, but it is >unclear what is needed and where to go. It will take some time and it may be more info pull than push for a bit but I'll be on top of it but can use any help I can get in showing the interest in this 'big-success.' -Adam _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
