Betreff: Re: [Marketing] Digia and the comunity for Qt > Tirsdag 16. oktober 2012 12.46.17 skrev Jens Weller: > > > As I started my own conference this Summer, I also asked the Qt > > Community for talks. > > I suspect it's the Meeting C++ in November which you're refering to?: > http://meetingcpp.com/
Yes. But that doesn't matter for the discussion. > > Despite beeing a new guy and conference, I had 0 > > talks submitted for Qt. All Qt related talks for my conference came > > from KDAB and RIM. > > I saw your invitation on the clang developer list from July 12. That was > one month after Nokia internally declared they would sell Qt, where all Qt > developers was in a Limbo until Digia announced they would acquire Qt > August 9. The acquisition was formally done September 17 at midnight. > > As you might understand, there was no one in Nokia who could in July make > a decition for participating on a conference in November. Such acquistion > freezes all actions, and it will take some time to reconnect from a new > company. ah, that explains a lot. I posted on June 28th on qt-project, and also on other qt related sites. > That said, in July and August there was +35 well prepared Qt relevant > talks and +50 BoF sessions at the annuall KDE conference Akademy in > Tallinn, Estonia. We got a booth and six Qt talks and Qt traning at FISL > 13. It's one of the world biggest free software conferences with 7700 > participants in Porto Alegre in Brazil. I didn't say no one gives talks on Qt ;) I said that I wondered why there was that little reaction/submissions. And ofc Academy or Contributor Summit are well known events. > I suggest everyone who got events including Qt or doing Qt talks to update > the Qt Events calendar: > http://qt-project.org/wiki/Category:Events Ah, thats good to know :) regards, Jens Weller _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
