Re: KDE at FOSDEM 2019
On woensdag 6 februari 2019 19:55:44 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > KDE at FOSDEM 2019 > > I organised the stall and evening meal at FOSDEM for KDE again this year. > > Stall: > 1 table again in building K, about as wide as stretching your arms out > sideways but we extended it with boxes. Nice table cloth. Nice back > drop using Come Home to KDE in 2019 design. Nice monitor from Kenny > C. Most stuff I drove from Scotland and back. What really helped me survive doing booth duty was the triangular setup with two roll-ups we had with nextcloud; it provided a small space hidden from the masses where I could take a breath before jumping back into the fray. That little bit of breathing space was _so_ valuable. I handed out more than two dozen tote bags, fifty art books, more small stickers and more laptop stickers than I counted and met half a dozen people who had never heard of KDE or Krita and were really interested. No negative people at all, this year, and a good discussion with some gnome people on how it would be nice to prepare a common set of demo data. -- https://www.valdyas.org | https://www.krita.org
KDE at FOSDEM 2019
KDE at FOSDEM 2019 I organised the stall and evening meal at FOSDEM for KDE again this year. Stall: 1 table again in building K, about as wide as stretching your arms out sideways but we extended it with boxes. Nice table cloth. Nice back drop using Come Home to KDE in 2019 design. Nice monitor from Kenny C. Most stuff I drove from Scotland and back. Demos: Plasma Mobile Slimbook (but my charger broke half way through!) Pinebook (but I also lacked a charger for my one, other people brought their ones) Plasma Mobile on Nexus 5X (which similarly liked to run out of charge when on USB and needed mains power) RK3399 (worked great on the main monitor) RISC V (Alistair did a stormer on the stall and got lots of queries on this) Raspberry Pi 3 Krita - live drawing from Wolkera and Boud on hand for questions and selfies GCompris - Timotee and Aish for demos, popular with children KDevLive - Camille did a live demo which was so popular with questions I'm not sure how far he got with the editing, which is a good thing Sales: Tally says we sold 35 t-shirts but in the rush that will miss some and the stock difference is 43 t-shirts. 1 hoodie sold. 1 cushion. 1 krita bag. 6 krita videos. I used a SumUp card reader for the first time which was a great help. Some people insisted on paying with cash which is faffy. total taken £706.11 Stock take at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QLH76Dk-F8vwIjJ1K56wDozj08NGn2BR6l1uTsIAOMM/edit?usp=sharing My KDE GB stock has 30 random t-shirts left, 5 krita videos, 1 cushion, a table cloth, a backdrop, a roll-up poster stand for KDE and one for KDE neon. This is available for others to use as needed. I was pretty jelous of Gnome's fold up set of shelves which allowed t-shirts to maintain some sort of order, maybe an idea for future. Food: The venue I'd booked for the Saturday meal turned out not to exist so I had to find another one at short notice but that seemed to work fine. 25 people came. 13 KDE people, 5 nextcloud, 5 lawyers, 2 canoeists Lots of KDE people did their own thing or went to a more fancy do with Pine. We went to the Gnome beer event afterwards which was much more busy but that's because it was advertised to the general public which I'm scared to do with a food event incase we get too many people. I did have to turn away some people from our event who in the end could have come because I'd been told to expect more but this is pretty common and it's never quite ideal. Talks: no KDE talks sadly e.V. I got a weird query from an e.V. board member in the week before the stall suggesting it wasn't legal for me to help KDE. e.V. has never done more then token aid for these stalls and in the spirit of KDE I've always just worked around that, so this was pretty insulting. I'd hope that e.V. would start helping people running KDE stalls more in future, it is its reason for existing, but until then people will continue to do it through other means. Various photos at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/albums/72157678444061768 Jonathan
Let's talk about KDE at FOSDEM 2019! :)
Hi everyone, one of the biggest FOSS events is slowly approaching. FOSDEM 2019 will take place in Brussels, Belgium on February 2 and 3. KDE will have a booth at the event (yay!), but we could also represent the community by giving talks about our projects in different Developer Rooms. If you're interested in giving a talk about a KDE-related topic, that's fantastic! Here are some suggestions for where you could submit your talk proposals: Open Source Design Devroom Details: https://opensourcedesign.net/events/2019/02/02/opensourcedesign-fosdem-2019 Deadline: December 1, 2018 What you could talk about: our Usability goal and the UX/UI improvements made as part of the goal; our HIG and the shiny new website ( https://hig.kde.org/)... Distributions Devroom Details: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002786.html Deadline: December 2, 2018 What you could talk about: KDE neon-related topics; collaboration with different distributions and their communities; building, testing, and packaging our software; release process improvements... Graphics DevRoom Details: https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2018q4/002806.html Deadline: no hard deadlines, but December 13 is the last day before finalizing the schedule What you could talk about: Wayland; anything related to windowing systems, graphics drivers and how to handle them... Security Devroom Details: https://github.com/security-devroom/fosdem-2019 Deadline: December 1, 2018 What you could talk about: security and usability; encryption; how KDE software protects users' privacy... - If you have ideas that don't really fit into any of these Developer Rooms, take a look at the full list of rooms and find a more suitable one: https://www.fosdem.org/2019/news/2018-10-14-accepted-developer-rooms/ Do you need help with formulating your idea, or want someone to proofread and prettify your proposal? Come to KDE Promo and we'll help you! Even if you're unsure what to talk about, we can help you brainstorm and put together a nice proposal. Find us on freenode in #kde-promo or join our Telegram group (https://t.me/joinchat/AEyx-0O8HKlHV7Cg7ZoSyA). Fingers crossed that your proposals get accepted! :) Cheers, Ivana Isadora / KDE Promo Team
