Re: FOSDEM 2018 call for participation

2017-12-18 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Jos van den Oever
<j...@vandenoever.info> wrote:

>> So, what kind of KDE-related talks *are* there at FOSDEM? Did anyone send
>> stuff in? Are there talks by "us" in other devrooms? [[ not by me, although
>> I could conceivably have sent something in for BSD, or for the Identity
>> rooms ]] How about (Plasma) Mobile?
>>
>> Vaguely related: who will be at FOSDEM, from the KDE community?
>
> I sent in a talk about Rust Qt Binding Generator for the Rust room. I do now
> know yet if it's been accepted.

Many devrooms are still scheduling their talks. There have been a
whopping 1304 talk proposals this year, it takes some time.

@Jos: your talk is still undecided

IIRC someone asked a few weeks ago why there was no Desktops DevRoom
this year. The reason is with 50+ tracks, talks usually fit better in
topic-specific devrooms than in a generic devroom.

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Re: FOSDEM 2018 call for participation

2017-10-04 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Lydia Pintscher <ly...@kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
> <pgqui...@elpauer.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Unfortunately this year we did not get a room for the Desktops DevRoom
> :-(
>
> Then we should figure out how we can be represented in some of the
> accepted dev rooms and show up there. The mobile one seems pretty
> obvious but there is also at least the community, legal and design
> rooms where I think we could have interesting things to say. Where
> else?
>
>
There are many, indeed:

Embedded, Mobile and Automotive
Distributions
Graphics
Legal and Policy Issues
Open Document Editors
Valgrind, GDB and Debugging Tools
BSD
Community
...

And I guess that's exactly the reason why there is no Desktops DevRoom this
year: the topics of the devroom fit very well into other devrooms. For the
past 3-4 years, it was increasingly difficult to receive good talk
proposals, and half the schedule was composed by talks rejected by other
devrooms that I dumpster-dived :-/


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Re: FOSDEM 2018 call for participation

2017-10-04 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello,

Unfortunately this year we did not get a room for the Desktops DevRoom :-(


On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote:

> No desktop room?
> https://fosdem.org/2018/news/2017-10-04-accepted-developer-rooms/
>
> On 6 September 2017 at 15:24, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgqui...@elpauer.org>
> wrote:
> > Yes, I sent an email to the kde-promo mailing list a few days ago
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, September 6, 2017, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Call for particicpation out now
> >>
> >> https://fosdem.org/2018/news/2017-09-03-call-for-participation/
> >>
> >> are you able to request a desktop room for desktop things and a stall
> for
> >> KDE?
> >>
> >> Jonathan
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Pau Garcia i Quiles
> > http://www.elpauer.org
> >
>



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Re: FOSDEM stall and party

2016-11-03 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello,

What do you need?

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote:
> Anyone able to help me with organising this? I'm feeling lonely and
> unloved doing it on my own and want someone to bounce decisions off.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
> On 1 November 2016 at 18:11, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote:
>> Time to start thinking about FOSDEM.
>>
>> https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/FOSDEM/2017
>>
>> Pau has booked a dev room, please submit talks.
>>
>> We hope to get a stall again.  Does anyone have merchandise they can
>> bring or do we need to look at buying some?
>>
>> Should I organise a Saturday party again?  It would be at the same
>> place in Grand Place, cost €20 (unless anyone has some sponsorship
>> money they can dig up) with food and beer.
>>
>> There is a proposed Plasma sprint in Stuttgart the following week. Me
>> and David are thinking of doing a Brexiteers last roadtrip of freedom
>> before the borders close. If you want a lift through the Channel
>> Tunnel or from Brussels to Stuttgart let us know.
>>
>> Jonathan



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[Announcement] FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2017 CfP

2016-10-19 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello,

Here is the Call for Participation for the Desktops DevRoom 2017

-8<--

FOSDEM <https://fosdem.org/2017/> is one of the largest (5,000+ hackers!)
gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each
February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). Once again, one of the tracks will
be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “CrossDesktop DevRoom”), which
will host Desktop-related talks.

We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source
Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and
interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity
to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience.

Topics accepted include, but are not limited to:

   - Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE,
   Cinnamon, ReactOS, CDE etc
   - Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, MorphOS, etc (when talking about a
   FLOSS topic)
   - Software development for the desktop
   - Development tools
   - Applications that enhance desktops
   - General desktop matters
   - Cross-platform software development
   - Web
   - Thin clients, desktop virtualiation, etc

Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of
distributing a desktop application with snap vs flatpak, or as general as
using HTML5 technologies to develop native applications.

Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop
environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2016 schedule
<https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/desktops/> might give you
some inspiration.


Submissions

Please include the following information when submitting a proposal:

   - Your name
   - The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be
   listed with around 400 from other projects)
   - Short abstract of one or two paragraphs
   - Short bio (with photo)
   - Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 minutes.
   Longer duration requests must be properly justified. You may be assigned
   LESS time than you request.
   -

How to submit

All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool:
https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM17

To submit your talk, click on "Create Event", then make sure to select the
“Desktops” devroom as the “Track”. Otherwise your talk will not be even
considered for any devroom at all.

If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your
talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if,
you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with
Pentabarf, please contact desktops-devroom AT lists DOT fosdem DOT org.


Deadline

The deadline for submissions is December 5th 2016.

FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 4 & 5 February 2017 and the Desktops
DevRoom will take place on Sunday, February 5th 2017.

We will contact every submitter with a “yes” or “no” before December 11th
2016.

Recording permission

The talks in the Desktops DevRoom will be audio and video recorded, and
possibly streamed live too.

In the "Submission notes" field, please indicate that you agree that your
presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license
and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example:

"If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all
recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative
Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely,
."

If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have
one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part.

More information

The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing
list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org.

Use this page to manage your subscription: https://lists.fosdem.org/
listinfo/desktops-devroom


<https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom>
Organization

The Desktops DevRoom 2017 is managed by a team representing the most
notable open desktops:

   - Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE
   - Christophe Fergeau, Gnome
   - Michael Zanetti, Unity
   - Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment
   - Jérome Leclanche, Razor

If you want to join the team, please contact desktops-devroom AT lists DOT
fosdem DOT org.

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Re: [kde-community] [Kde-pim] A new home for Mozilla Thunderbird at KDE?

2016-04-27 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Eike Hein <h...@kde.org> wrote:


> Make no mistake, Thunderbird is a dead project. It's built on a toolkit
> that's EOL, and hardly has enough of a development community to sustain
> the app, much less the stack beneath it. That it has users (like me)
> that still use it despite the mounting bitrot and deteriorating
> performance doesn't change that outlook. Many people who use Thunderbird
> want to switch away from Thunderbird.
>
>
It's probably the perfect moment to implement the Thunderbird UI using Qt
Quick, and start replacing all the technology piece by piece.

IMHO Mozilla is betting all their future on Firefox (which is declining)
instead of making a recurring business of Thunderbird.

What they did: abandon Thunderbird. "Sorry pals, now you are on your own"

What I would have done: create a thunderbird.com service, competing with
GMail and Outlook.com. Plus provide Thunderbird as a desktop/offline
client, like Microsoft does with Outlook. THAT would have been a logical
step: further develop one of your products, provide a cloud version, take a
% of a successful existing market (e-mail outsourcing) which provides
recurrent income, etc
In that regard, Kolab is probably the most fit organization to get
Thunderbird, as they can provide the server side already. With a
SPICE-based approach like Open365 uses, a Thunderbird.com service can be in
public beta in a couple of months. Once it's business case is proved and
money starts coming in selling, the next step would be to have a pure-web
UI, mobile app, etc.

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Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this!

2016-04-27 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neund...@kde.org>
wrote:

people can buy a tablet with e.g. plasma mobile pre-installed is VERY hard,
> probably not doable, and I think the Vivaldi team tried really hard.
> From my POV for mobile/embedded that's actually even harder than for PCs,
> where you have standardized hardware.
>
> So, do we see a place where it could take off ?
>
>
Sure we do.

About 3.5 years ago, I made a proposal to run KDE software on Android Core
instead of Mer:

http://www.elpauer.org/2012/09/plasma-active-on-android/

Two weeks ago, at Akademy-es, when I saw the current status of Plasma
Mobile (essentially only works where Ubuntu Phone works), I asked.

What Bhushan is doing is very good: LXC containers on top of CyanogenMod.
That opens Plasma Mobile to essentially every platform where CyanogenMod
works. It is a huge leap from the current state of affairs.

What I would like to see is one step further, the same proposal I made 3.5
years ago: get rid of Android UI and run Plasma Mobile on top of Android
Core. In fact, let's have a "Plasma Mobile ROM Cooker" that takes an
official ROM for your Android device, de-Androidizes it, and then injects
Plasma Mobile for Android Core (I think Boot to Qt does something in that
line). That would make Plasma Mobile run on essentially every Android
device with an unlocked bootloader, and quick: hardware support comes from
Android Core.

Chinese Android TV box retailers in AliExpress are already offering (and
doing) to replace Android with OpenELEC (I ported OpenELEC myself to one of
those boxes!). No warranty and everything but they do it and you receive a
TV Box with a pure Linux OpenELEC. It would not be crazy to provide them
with Android Core-based Plasma Mobile ROM sfor a few popular phones (THL,
XiaoMi, Doogee, ZTE, etc), and see if they want to sell them. In fact, as
of today, if you want a Jolla tablet with Sailfish, they fastest and
cheapest way is to buy the tablet from a Chinese retailer in TaoBao and ask
them to install the Sailfish OS 2.0 ROM (they explicitly advertise it!).


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Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016: Call for Participation

2015-11-30 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello,

Just a quick mail to remind everybody we will accept talk proposals for the
Desktops DevRoom at FOSDEM 2016 only until this Saturday. Hurry up!

On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgqui...@elpauer.org>
wrote:

>
> FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation
>
> FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in
> the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). One of
> the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “CrossDesktop
> DevRoom”), which will host Desktop-related talks.
>
> We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source
> Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and
> interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity
> to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience.
>
> Topics accepted include, but are not limited to:
>
>- Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE,
>Cinnamon, ReactOS, etc
>
>- Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, CDE, MorphOS, etc (when talking
>about a FLOSS topic)
>
>- Software development for the desktop
>
>- Development tools
>
>- Applications that enhance desktops
>
>- General desktop matters
>
>- Cross-platform software development
>
>- Web
>
>
> Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of
> development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; or as general as predictions
> for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of
> interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are
> especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2015 schedule[1] might give you some
> inspiration.
>
>
> Submissions
>
> Please include the following information when submitting a proposal:
>
>- Your name
>
>- The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be
>listed with around 400 from other projects)
>
>- Short abstract of one or two paragraphs
>
>- Short bio (with photo)
>
>- Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30
>minutes. Longer duration requests must be properly justified. You may be
>assigned LESS time than you request.
>
>
> How to submit
>
> All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool:
>
> https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16
>
> When submitting your talk, make sure to select the "Desktops" devroom as
> the "Track". Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any
> devroom.
>
> If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your
> talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if,
> you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with
> Pentabarf, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org.
>
>
> Deadline
>
> The deadline for submissions is December 6th 2015.
>
> FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 30th and 31st 2015 and the
> Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, January 31st 2015.
>
> We will contact every submitter with a "yes" or "no" before December 18th
> 2015.
>
>
> Recording permission
>
> The talks in the Desktops devroom will be audio and video recorded, and
> possibly streamed live too.
>
> By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license
> the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license.
>
> If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have
> one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part.
>
>
> More information
>
> The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing
> list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org.
>
> Use this page to manage your subscription:
>
> https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom
>
>
> Organization
>
> The Desktops DevRoom 2016 is managed by a team representing the most
> notable open desktops:
>
>
>- Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE
>
>- Christophe Fergeau, Gnome
>
>- Michael Zanetti, Unity
>
>- Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment
>
>- Jérome Leclanche, Razor
>
>
> If you want to join the team, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org
>
> --
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>



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[kde-community] FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016: Call for Participation

2015-11-02 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation

FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in
the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). One of
the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “CrossDesktop
DevRoom”), which will host Desktop-related talks.

We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source
Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and
interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity
to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience.

Topics accepted include, but are not limited to:

   - Open Desktops: Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment, XFCE, Razor, MATE,
   Cinnamon, ReactOS, etc

   - Closed desktops: Windows, Mac OS X, CDE, MorphOS, etc (when talking
   about a FLOSS topic)

   - Software development for the desktop

   - Development tools

   - Applications that enhance desktops

   - General desktop matters

   - Cross-platform software development

   - Web


Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of
development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; or as general as predictions
for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of
interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are
especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2015 schedule[1] might give you some
inspiration.


Submissions

Please include the following information when submitting a proposal:

   - Your name

   - The title of your talk (please be descriptive, as titles will be
   listed with around 400 from other projects)

   - Short abstract of one or two paragraphs

   - Short bio (with photo)

   - Requested time: from 15 to 45 minutes. Normal duration is 30 minutes.
   Longer duration requests must be properly justified. You may be assigned
   LESS time than you request.


How to submit

All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool:

https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM16

When submitting your talk, make sure to select the "Desktops" devroom as
the "Track". Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any
devroom.

If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your
talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if,
you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with
Pentabarf, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org.


Deadline

The deadline for submissions is December 6th 2015.

FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 30th and 31st 2015 and the
Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, January 31st 2015.

We will contact every submitter with a "yes" or "no" before December 18th
2015.


Recording permission

The talks in the Desktops devroom will be audio and video recorded, and
possibly streamed live too.

By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license
the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license.

If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have
one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part.


More information

The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing
list desktops-devr...@lists.fosdem.org.

Use this page to manage your subscription:

https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom


Organization

The Desktops DevRoom 2016 is managed by a team representing the most
notable open desktops:


   - Pau Garcia i Quiles, KDE

   - Christophe Fergeau, Gnome

   - Michael Zanetti, Unity

   - Philippe Caseiro, Enlightenment

   - Jérome Leclanche, Razor


If you want to join the team, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org

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Re: [kde-community] Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-10-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello,

The devroom has been confirmed. We will publish a call for talks in week.

We have no word of the stand yet, it is usually confirmed by mid-December
or even later.

I'll keep you posted.



On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgqui...@elpauer.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Great, thank you. We are still months away from confirmation of the
> devroom but I'm confident we will get it.
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Riccardo Iaconelli <ricca...@kde.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Just FYI, I plan on submitting a talk... I am not sure what I could need
>> help with, but in case you have ideas, please reach to me :-)
>>
>> -Riccardo
>> Il 28/set/2015 09:19 AM, "Lydia Pintscher" <ly...@kde.org> ha scritto:
>>
>>> Hey folks :)
>>>
>>> Pau was awesome and already requested the devroom and stand for us for
>>> FOSDEM 2016. The call for maintrack speakers is also open now. If you
>>> can think of something cool please do submit a talk. It'd be great to
>>> have one of us on the main stage talking about a KDE-related topic. If
>>> you need help let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Lydia
>>>
>>>
>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>> From: Alasdair G Kergon <a...@fosdem.org>
>>> Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:14 PM
>>> Subject: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation
>>> To: fos...@lists.fosdem.org
>>>
>>>
>>> FOSDEM offers open source and free software developers a place to
>>> meet, share ideas and collaborate.  Renowned for being highly
>>> developer-oriented, the event brings together some 5000+ geeks from
>>> all over the world.
>>>
>>> The sixteenth edition will take place on Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st
>>> January 2016 at the usual location: ULB Campus Solbosch in Brussels.
>>>
>>> We now invite proposals for main track presentations, developer rooms,
>>> stands and lightning talks.
>>>
>>> Main Tracks
>>> ---
>>> Previous editions have featured main tracks centered around security,
>>> operating system development, community building, and many other
>>> topics.  Presentations are expected to be 50 minutes long and should
>>> cater to a varied technical audience.  The conference covers
>>> reasonable travel expenses agreed in advance and arranges
>>> accommodation for accepted main track speakers.
>>>
>>> Proposals for main track presentations should be submitted using
>>> Pentabarf:
>>>   https://fosdem.org/submit
>>>
>>> This year, submissions will be reviewed in two batches, beginning with
>>> those received by 16 October.
>>>
>>> Questions or remarks?  Contact us at prog...@fosdem.org.
>>>
>>> Key dates:
>>> 16 October
>>>- deadline for first batch of main track proposals
>>>
>>> 30 October
>>>- final deadline for main track proposals
>>>
>>> 2 November onwards
>>>- main track talks announced (in batches)
>>>
>>> Developer Rooms
>>> ---
>>> Developer rooms are assigned to self-organising groups to work
>>> together on open source and free software projects, to discuss topics
>>> relevant to a broader subset of the community, etc.  Content may be
>>> scheduled in any format, subject to approval.  Popular formats include
>>> presentation tracks, hacking sessions and panel discussions.
>>> Proposals involving collaboration across project or domain boundaries
>>> are strongly encouraged.
>>>
>>> Developer room proposals should be submitted through the form at
>>>   https://fosdem.org/devroom
>>> which contains further information.
>>>
>>> Questions or remarks?  Contact us at devro...@fosdem.org.
>>>
>>> Key dates:
>>> 9 October
>>>- deadline for developer room proposals
>>>
>>> 19 October
>>>- accepted developer rooms announced
>>>
>>> 2 November (or earlier)
>>>- developer rooms issue Calls for Participation
>>>
>>> 18 December (or earlier)
>>>- developer rooms publish complete schedules
>>>
>>> Stands
>>> --
>>> FOSDEM offers open source and free software projects the opportunity
>>> to display their work during the event. At its stand, a project can
>>&

Re: [kde-community] Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-10-22 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Riccardo Iaconelli <ricca...@kde.org>
wrote:

> On 22 October 2015 at 13:56, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgqui...@elpauer.org>
> wrote:
>
>> The devroom has been confirmed. We will publish a call for talks in week.
>>
>
> I have submitted my KDE talk as a keynote or main track.
> Is there any overlap?
>
>
No problem.

Last year we fished from declined keynotes and main tracks for other
desktop-related talks. It was a big success and we had two high-profile
speakers (Stormy Peters and Quim Gil) we would have otherwise missed.

In any case, if you are declined as a keynote/main track talk, please
submit  it for the Desktops DevRoom, in case we overlook some declined talk.

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Re: [kde-community] Fwd: [FOSDEM] FOSDEM 2016: Call for Participation

2015-10-03 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
nds
>> which contains further information.
>>
>> Questions or remarks?  Contact us at sta...@fosdem.org.
>>
>> Key dates:
>> 13 November
>>- deadline for stand proposals
>>
>> 30 November
>>- accepted stands announced
>>
>> Lightning talks
>> ---
>> Lighting talks are short - 15 minutes - talks on a wide variety of
>> topics.  Anyone who has something interesting to say about an open
>> source or free software topic can apply.  We particularly encourage
>> topics that do not fit in any of the developer rooms.
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>> Proposals for lightning talks should be submitted using Pentabarf:
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>> Please select "Lightning Talks" in the "track" field.
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>> Questions or remarks?  Contact us at lightningta...@fosdem.org.
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Re: [kde-community] Windows licenses

2014-02-26 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:50 PM, Martin Sandsmark martin.sandsm...@kde.org
 wrote:

On Wednesday 22. January 2014 07.23.30 Laszlo Papp wrote:
  Hmm, actually the generic and basic Windows license does not allow
  multiple remote login in my understand onto the same desktop. When I
  last checked it required some server license, but I cannot claim it
  100% percents.

 Yes, but we get server licenses as well?


Yes. It's not a fixed set of software but a list where we can pick what we
ask for. E. g.

http://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/microsoft-eligibility

In order for this to move forward, I would need a generic @kde.org address
that we can set as a contact point and does not change over time. Something
like micros...@kde.org, or donati...@kde.org would be great. If I am to
manage the whole request process, I will need access to that account. Who
can I ask this for? Does the board need to approve the creation of such an
address, or is it fine for sysadmins to do it on their own?

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Re: [kde-community] Proper KDE SDK - was - Re: Applications in KDE Generation 5

2014-01-17 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Ben Cooksley bcooks...@kde.org wrote:

  Where can I find the CI scripts? If someone could give me access to
 Jenkins
  and give me a little introduction to what's already in place for CI, I
 can
  probably help with automating the SDK generation so that it's available
 from
  the Qt SDK Maintenance Tool.

 The CI scripts are located at websites/build-kde-org on git.kde.org,
 in the production branch.
 Please let me know if you have any questions on what they do.


How does one start? I've set JENKINS_SLAVE_HOME to where I cloned that
repository, and run setup-env.sh, but it fails with:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File tools/prepare-environment.py, line 21, in module
load_projects( 'kde_projects.xml', '
http://projects.kde.org/kde_projects.xml', 'config/projects',
'dependencies/logical-module-structure' )
  File
/home/pgquiles/personal/software/kde/kf5sdk/build-kde-org/tools/kdecilib.py,
line 886, in load_projects
with open(moduleStructure, 'r') as fileHandle:
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'dependencies/logical-module-structure'

(and indeed that file is not in the repository, nor has it been downloaded)

I have also skimmed over the configuration for several of the repositories
and I've noticed a few potential problems:


   - If we want KF5 to be available for Qt SDK users, we should compile
   with exactly the Qt version Qt SDK ships. Otherwise, we may face ABI
   problems. But that means compiling everything *again*.

   - What about compilation for Windows and Mac? It seems there are no
   Jenkins slaves for those platforms. Or maybe I didn't read enough?

   - I am a bit worried about dependencies. Qt SDK does not need to care
   about dependencies because there are very few dependencies and they can be
   contained in Qt Core. KDE, on the other hand, has a lot of dependencies.
   Either I add a new component (Third-party dependencies) with a long list
   of subcomponents (each third party library), or I include dependencies with
   each KF5 add-on (which will quickly grow into a problem, as it would need
   tracking which KF5 module provides which depedency). I am open to other
   suggestions.

   - Is there a test build machine I could use once I have something useful?


Thank you


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Re: [kde-community] Proper KDE SDK - was - Re: Applications in KDE Generation 5

2014-01-16 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello,

Where can I find the CI scripts? If someone could give me access to Jenkins
and give me a little introduction to what's already in place for CI, I can
probably help with automating the SDK generation so that it's available
from the Qt SDK Maintenance Tool.

I am attending FOSDEM, in case you think it's easier to explain in person.



On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Ben Cooksley bcooks...@kde.org wrote:

 On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
 pgqui...@elpauer.org wrote:
 
 
 
  On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org
 wrote:
 
 
   * Can we create a proper KDE SDK?  We have the SDK module which is
   really a mix of general development related apps and KDE-specific dev
   tools, and we have Examples, and we have a few other bits-and-pieces
   scattered around.  Can we split the apps off to stand on their own
   repos in Extragear, and merge Examples and the other tools into SDK?
 
  We can, it just needs manpower ;-)
 
 
  I think I have been asking for a KDE SDK for the last 7 years :-)
 
  KF5 should make that easier, given that there are many small parts.
 
  Another idea: let's make the different parts of the SDK (Tier 1
 components,
  Tier 2 components, etc) available from a repository that could be
 integrated
  in the Qt SDK Maintenance Tool.
 
  This task is very time consuming (lots of rebuilds and tests) but it
  shouldn't be too difficult from a technical point of view. It essentially
  requires CMake knowledge. Jenkins knowledge and access to a powerful
 build
  machine would be a plus. It's a pity GSoC is so far yet :-/

 I'd suggest this get integrated into our existing CI scripts to make
 it easier to perform when needed - they already have 99% of the
 structure and other necessary capability to build all of the
 frameworks. I'd advise against doing this as part of a GSoC project
 however - other than producing the necessary metadata to make the
 repository there wouldn't be too much to actually code...

 The repository in question can probably be distributed via files.kde.org.

 
 
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Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM: video recordings

2014-01-14 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello,

If you could tell me which talks you will be interested in, I would prepare
an schedule to make sure we have someone for every talk.

Thank you
 On 14-Jan-2014 10:25 AM, Yannick Kiekens yannickkiek...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hello,

 I live in belgium and i was going to go see several of these talks in the
 desktop devroom.
 I have no idea what i am getting into but i can press a record button.


 Mvg
 Yannick Kiekens


 On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles pgqui...@elpauer.org
  wrote:

 Hello,

 The FOSDEM organization would like to have every talk recorded this year.

 I put out a call for volunteers a week ago:


 http://www.elpauer.org/2014/01/fosdem-desktops-devroom-2014-looking-for-volunteers-for-video-recordings/

 But it rendered exactly ZERO volunteers. The other projects in the
 devroom (Gnome, Enlightenment, Unity and LXQt) have been equally
 successful, which means there will be no recordings.

 Anyone wants to help?

 Thank you

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[kde-community] FOSDEM: video recordings

2014-01-13 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello,

The FOSDEM organization would like to have every talk recorded this year.

I put out a call for volunteers a week ago:

http://www.elpauer.org/2014/01/fosdem-desktops-devroom-2014-looking-for-volunteers-for-video-recordings/

But it rendered exactly ZERO volunteers. The other projects in the devroom
(Gnome, Enlightenment, Unity and LXQt) have been equally successful,
which means there will be no recordings.

Anyone wants to help?

Thank you

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