From kde-community Fri Aug 16 08:12:29 2013 From: "Aaron J. Seigo" Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:12:29 +0000 To: kde-community Subject: Re: [kde-community] Why were there no talks about Ubuntu Mobile at Akademy? Message-Id: <5317240.RgtFYGlLki () freedom> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-community&m=137664077530036 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============1814477160093645585==" --===============1814477160093645585== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2065954.T1rzQ7gIEh"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --nextPart2065954.T1rzQ7gIEh Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Friday, August 16, 2013 01:49:56 you wrote: > Anyways, the question is why Canonical didn't have any talks about Ub= untu > Touch. I personally found it a bit weird and wouldn't have expected t= hat > this years akademy was so much about mobile phone platforms *not* rel= ated > to KDE. Actually I would have hoped to see some Vivaldi prototypes or= demos > instead of all those other platforms. Looking from that point of view= , it Vivaldi is a hardware product to put Plasma Active on. It does not have= a=20 monopoly on KDE interests, and I (and others involved) have no desire n= or=20 expectation for exclusive interest and attention from KDE. Plasma itsel= f was,=20 of course, represented in talks at Akademy. There is no reason that there can not be multiplicity of mobile efforts= around=20 KDE and Qt, and so I think it makes perfect sense to see all those othe= r=20 platforms. In fact, if we can manage to attract multiple platforms there will be m= ore=20 sources of input and support to our shared core technologies. We may ev= en be=20 able to break through some of the more baseless conceptions about compe= tition=20 and be able to cooperate more on non-differentiating technology. If we want any hope of any of these minority platforms thriving we have= to=20 start looking at it as both/and and pull in as many camps working on re= levant=20 technologies as we can. So I think it makes perfect sense that there were these other platforms= there. Also, just as Ubuntu Phone is quietly using KDE Technology, I understan= d Jolla=20 is as well. We also share efforts on Mer. With Blackberry we have the l= east in=20 common, but we are collaborating on packaging formats with them and the= y are a=20 big supporter and contributor to QML these days. We have commonalities = and if=20 Akademy can be the Big Tent we meet under, all the more power to KDE. p.s. The main reason there wasn=E2=80=99t anything more about Vivaldi (= or, for that=20 matter, Bodega) is that I did not attend Akademy this year due to the b= irth of=20 my second child being expected around the same time. The others who wor= k on=20 the project either do not usually attend Akademy or gave talks on Plasm= a this=20 year. --=20 Aaron J. Seigo --nextPart2065954.T1rzQ7gIEh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlIN3vIACgkQ1rcusafx20NTfgCgooCFYNVXRCDdWMyLJEAiAFyV k8cAoJx9NyWGCwJn7/gD1RtXoHr5o6lY =W3sk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2065954.T1rzQ7gIEh-- --===============1814477160093645585== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community --===============1814477160093645585==--