Hello :)
As you already know KDE e.V has offered to co-host Qt Contributors' Summit
(QtCS) under the KDE Akademy conference, July 13-19 in 2013. This at Public
University of the Basque Country.
I doesn't seems to be any strong arguments against co-hosting QtCS with KDE
Akademy.
The other question is timing. What gives most positive effect for the
participants? Should the QtCS be held in the beginning of the week, at the end
of the week, or before of after the KDE Akademy conference.
KDE e.V's business manager Claudia Rauch and I had a workshop planning QtCS
and KDE Akademy on Thursday and Friday last week. This was right after Qt
Dev.Days in Berlin. One of the things was to decide dates. We considered four
alternatives for QtCS:
1: in the week before the KDE Akademy conference
2: Monday-Tuesday at the KDE Akademy, right after the main KDE talks
on Saturday and Sunday
3: Thursday-Friday at the end of the KDE Akademy
4: after the conference
(There are an alternative 5, running QtCS Saturday
and Sunday on top of the KDE talks. It's not an option)
The four alternatives was given point regarding timing, local team resources,
and the co-hosting effects. The following parameters was selected:
-- Co-hosting effects which are beneficial for sharing ideas and good practices.
-- The best practical offer to participate on both KDE Akademy talks and QtCS.
-- Enough space to run talks and BoF's for all the participants.
-- Work burden for the local team who are mostly volunteers. (The local team
also help organize the KDE Akademy-es in the week before KDE Akademy).
Running a point system with Max 1. Min 0 and 'no Max effect' to ½, we got this
results:
Alternatives:
1, 2, 3, 4
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0 1 ½ 0 - Co-hosting effects
0 1 ½ 0 - The best practical offer for participants
1 1 1 1 - Enough space (yes, it's enough space at the university)
0 1 ½ 0 - Work burden for local team (adding more days is a 0)
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1 4 2½ 1 = Alternative #2 came out on top with 4 out of 4.
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After discussing this back and forth at Qt Developer Days and at the workshop,
checking with many key stakeholders: Alternative 2 for QtCS came up on top.
Lars Knoll also suggested alternative 2 as the best on in a meeting with KDE
e.V. board members.
QtCS will be on Monday-Tuesday 15-16 July in 2013 right after the KDE
conference talks. It's possibility to extend the QtCS to Wednesday 17 or
running BoF's to the end of the KDE Akademy conference.
I've copied most of the wiki pages from the QtCS in 2012 to 2013 for the
planning process:
http://qt-project.org/groups/qt-contributors-summit-2013/wiki
Best regards
Knut Yrvin
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Open Source Community Manager - Digia, Qt
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