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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] [kde-edu]:  FOSDEM 2007: KDE devroom ?
From:       Karl Sarnow <karl.sarnow () eun ! org>
Date:       2006-11-06 9:27:25
Message-ID: 454EFFFD.6040206 () eun ! org
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Thanks Anne-Marie for the info. I have prepared a news for Xplora, which
should come up soon on http://www.xplora.org.

I would also like to get in contact with developers in order to pinpoint
the need of science educators.

Karl


Anne-Marie Mahfouf schrieb:
> Hi Sebas,
> 
> I plan to be at FOSDEM (24-25 February) this year as I now live in France!
> I have no idea how things are organized at FOSDEM but seeing you start to plan 
> the week-end, I'd like to talk about educational software with as many Gnome 
> people and distros people as possible!
> 
> Anne-Marie
> 
> On Thursday 02 November 2006 08:51, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 23:59, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> > 
> > > I'll check if we still have a booth for you.
> > > Each booth is actually a table of 2m width. As you plan to sell
> > > merchandising... would one be enough or would you need two ?
> > > 
> > I think one is just fine, we don't want to occupy too much space.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > 
> > > > In fact, I like the idea, although schedules and practical stuff might
> > > > make more sense if both projects had their own devroom. Will there be a
> > > > freedesktop.org attendance? Maybe the devrooms could go close to each
> > > > other, and having the FDO one in the middle, or something like that?
> > > > 
> > > There won't be a FDO room but massive X.org presence, they have their
> > > own devroom, already have confirmation of 13 X.org developers coming to
> > > FOSDEM. Maybe it could even be combined with X.org presence ?
> > > 
> > > Note, to summarize, there are 3 options:
> > > 1) KDE and GNOME have their own devrooms, same as last year
> > > 2) KDE and GNOME have a joint devroom, mixing talks about KDE, GNOME,
> > > and common initiatives, freedesktop.org topics, whatever ;)
> > > 3) KDE and GNOME have their own devroom but share a single devroom on,
> > > say, half a day during the week-end (saturday afternoon, sunday morning
> > > or sunday afternoon)
> > > 
> > > Maybe (3) would be the most interesting option... ?
> > > You could still have your KDE/GNOME-specific talks in your respective
> > > devrooms but set up a shared schedule for half a day where you can
> > > exchange information, and possibly talk about common technology or
> > > directions (HIG comparison, dbus, freedesktop.org, ...) or maybe even
> > > spawn a new, common initiative ;)) (FOSDEM is a pretty good place for
> > > that, you have developers of many different projects at hand, even X.org
> > > ;)).
> > > 
> > Good idea. What we're actually doing then is of course bound to the people
> > that are there, but just stuffing KDE and GNOME people in the same room
> > will at the very least have funny effects, if not positive. :-)
> > 
> > 
> > > As a side effect, it would also free up a room for half a day, and I'll
> > > be able to give another, smaller project some space at FOSDEM during
> > > that time.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > > Of course, it's by no means an obligation, just a suggestion, could be
> > > > > interesting for both projects and for visitors as well (at least in
> > > > > our opinion).
> > > > > Or maybe have half a day during the weekend where you would like to
> > > > > have shared talks and discussions ?
> > > > > What do you think ?
> > > > > 
> > > > Again, I like the idea. I'll think a bit about things we'll be able to
> > > > share. I'll meet a lot of the GNOME people next week at the Ubuntu Dev
> > > > Summit in Mountainview, I'll check with the GNOME guys then if they
> > > > have good suggestions how we can show the FOSDEM people that GNOME and
> > > > KDE are good friends.
> > > > 
> > > Sounds great :)
> > > 
> > > I'll send a mail to my GNOME contact for FOSDEM, to see whether he likes
> > > the idea (I'll put you in CC:).
> > > 
> > Cool, thanks!
> > 
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