On 2011-04-08 Sebastian wrote: > Hi *, Jos, > > On Monday, April 04, 2011 18:07:16 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > I've received a few requests already from ppl asking "what will the > > next openSUSE release bring". Now I know a few things being worked > > on, from Webpin2 to the bretzn/appstream stuff. And of course the > > obvious "latest software packages". But I guess there are other > > ideas people would like to work on, right? > > Quite. :) > > We (open-slx) are doing a Plasma Active device-independent user > experience, based on openSUSE and Plasma. I've just blogged about > Plasma Active, as many of you won't have heard of it yet: > http://vizzzion.org/blog/2011/04/plasma- > active-a-desirable-user-experience-encompassing-the-device-spectrum/ > There's more information on communitybase: > http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active > > .. and a video for the impatient: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GAFfjscVyg > > In all due modesty, I've an insanely great openSUSE in my hands, > running on a tablet computer. :) We're working on it on the > opensuse-kde list, and on the [email protected] list, packages have > been developed in the OBS, and the sources are upstream at KDE's > Git. There are 11.4-based packages and a live iso. The status is > "boots and kinda works", lots of showstoppers. We're targeting our > first stable release end of Sept. > > I understand that non-desktop or -server stuff may not be everybody's > cup of tea, but those who would like to lend a hand on making > openSUSE rock on all kinds of new devices are very welcome to do so. > (See > http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Tasks for some inspiration.) > > Plasma Active is also quite different in its approach to the > upstream/downstream: we're a cross-stack, multi-disciplined team > (designers, hackers, testers, packagers, ...), working across > borders dedicated to create a desirable user experience. > > As to marketing and communication, please do not overhype this thing > at this point. Those that can be of value to our mission should > surely know. We've worked out a communication strategy in the Plasma > Active team, so if you're planning to do any substantial PR around > it right now, I'd much prefer if we first concentrate on making it > really rock, and above all that we coordinate it.
Abse-fracking-lutely cool. I've seen some stuff about it on planet KDE already and mentioned this in a column I wrote for linuxuser (UK magazine). It'll end up on the wiki page ;-) At what point do you think this warrants an article for news.o.o? > Cheers,
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