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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    [kde-promo] Re: possible promo sprint?
From:       Mario Fux <kde-ml () unormal ! org>
Date:       2011-01-19 11:05:03
Message-ID: 201101191205.04135.kde-ml () unormal ! org
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Am Mittwoch 19 Januar 2011, 11.37:51 schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles

Morning

Overall a great idea but you forgot to CC: aaron (which is done herewith) and 
I've another question as the infrastructural and overall organizer of 
Randa2011.

> <pgquiles@elpauer.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Stuart Jarvis <stuart.jarvis@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure I'm "qualified" to attend a promo sprint but I'd like the
> > > 
> > > > promo team to consider other platforms. Twofold:
> > > Yes, we should discuss this, I added it to the wiki page
> > > 
> > > Btw, if you are interested, please add yourself
> > > http://community.kde.org/Promo/Scratchpad/Sprint2011
> > 
> > I've added myself
> 
> I've added one more item to the kde-promo sprint: "Sell" (advertise,
> not $$$) kdelibs, kdepimlibs and calligralibs (former kofficelibs) to
> third-parties as just one more module to Qt.
> 
> I'd like third-parties developing applications with Qt to consider the
> KDE foundation libraries a something they can count on, something they
> can freely use, an "enabler" that makes their applications much more
> powerful, i. e. a conversation between Principal Developer and Senior
> Developer would go like this:
> PD: What libraries are we using for our new flight simulator?
> SD: QtCore, QtGui, QtNetwork and QML for the GUI, OpenSceneGraph for
> the 3D, calligralibs for the logbook (save in ODF, etc), kdepimlibs
> for mail and integration with Exchange and kdelibs because it provides
> some additional features like KIO, KParts, etc. We will use the Okular
> KPart to show PDFs.
> PD: Great! Thanks to the KDE foundation libraries we are saving so
> much work and making our application so much powerful!

Really like this and that would be a nice "quote" ;-).

> Commercial-grade support is very important for companies, so we'd want
> to talk to KDAB, Intevation, KO GmbH, etc and see if they are
> offering/plan to offer support for kdelibs, kdepimlibs and
> calligralibs. I assume kdepimlibs is supported by KDAB and Intevation
> (and maybe someone else too?) and calligralibs is supported by KO GmbH
> but we need to make sure, ask about pricing for a support contract
> (orientative) and we need to find out about support for kdelibs (if
> there is and who provides it).
> 
> This is related to the "KDE modularization" and "KDE platform vs
> framework" topics in the Platform 11 sprint which will take place in

Would be great to have one of you promo guys in Randa to write news about 
what's happpening there (4 groups: Nepomuk, KDevelop/Kate, 
Multimedia/Amarok/Phonon and Core11).

The meeting is from 1st to 7th of June.

> June in Randa (
> http://community.kde.org/KDE_Core/Platform_11#Modularization_of_KDE_librari
> es ) and the "Going more Qt-only way"
> (http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Meetings/Begin_2011_meeting/Ideas#Going_
> more_Qt-only_way ) in the Calligra Sprint which will take place in Berlin
> in April.
> 
> I am NOT attending either of those sprints because I am not a
> contributor to either kdelibs (I have done only small bits for
> Windows) or Calligra (although I have an idea to make Words
> document-translations aware which I'd like to pursue in the coming
> weeks) but I'd like this to be discussed and whatever the outcome of
> the sprints is, we have to "sell" kdelibs as something that can be
> used for commercial applications. Obviously, the more modular kdelibs,
> kdepimlibs, kdesupport and calligralibs are; and the less daemons
> (kdeinit, DBUS, etc) that are required to use kdelibs, kdepimlibs,
> kdesupport and calligralibs, the more our foundation libraries will be
> used by third-parties.
> 
> I am not sure who to contact in Calligra or Platform 11 to make them
> aware of. I am CCing this mail to Aaron, Jaroslaw and Boudewijn. Guys,
> sorry for nagging you!

griits
Mario
 
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