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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Status and Agenda for the ODF Weekend
From:       Inge Wallin <inge () lysator ! liu ! se>
Date:       2007-03-30 9:07:27
Message-ID: 200703301107.27817.inge () lysator ! liu ! se
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Hi everybody,

The ODF Weekend is shaping up fine.  We have at this time 16 confirmed 
participants, which is the at the limit of what the KDAB office space holds, 
according to Mirko. One person *cough*isaac*cough* still hasn't told me 
wether he'll be there or not, but I hope to get that soon.

Recapitulation
The KOffice ODF hack weekend will take place sat-sun May 12th-13th in the KDAB 
offices in Berlin.

The participants are:

Name		Representing (mainly)
-------------------------------------------------
Maintainers:
David Faure	KoLibs
Thomas Zander	KWord
Ariya Hidayat	KSpread
Thorsten Zachman	KPresenter, Kivio
Jan Hambrecht	Karbon
Boudewijn Rempt	Krita
Inge Wallin	KChart, organizer
Alfredo Beaumont	KFormula

Nobody from KPlato nor Kugar has shown any interest, but then, they don't have 
an ODF format to code for.  Nevertheless, if anybody would be interested in 
representing these components, I'm sure we can find work for them too, even 
if the space is running low.

Other developers:
Martin Pfeiffer	KFormula
Sebastian Sauer	Kross
Philip Rodriques	Documentation, testing
Anne-Marie Mahfouf	Website, testing, documentation
Tobias Koenig	Okular
Aaron Seigo	Kdelibs

Other people:
Claire Lotion	Organizer
Jos Poortlivet	Press coverage

As you can see, we have a very strong showing! We are especially excited to 
have Tobias Koenig from Okular and Aaron Seigo representing kdelibs with us. 
The reason for that is that they wanted to discuss how we can design our ODF 
support to let other applications in KDE use it. Eventually, we might be able 
to offer ODF support for all of KDE with a module like the current 
kdepimlibs. This will definitely not go into KDE 4.0, (except for Okular?), 
but perhaps for 4.1 and beyond.

Now to the proposed agenda. David Faure has been nice enough to offer a 
tutorial of ODF at large and of the support classes within the Koffice 
libraries. He expects the tutorial to take around 1 hour, but we expect the 
session to be longer, since it's bound to generate discussion about design, 
present and future.

My view is that this is will be the defining meeting for ODF in KOffice *and* 
KDE for a very long future. Nevertheless, we should try to get as much 
hacking and actual implementation done as possible.

Most people (in fact everybody, as it looks now) will arrive on friday, but I 
don't know at what time. Therefore I propose an early start on saturday. The 
weekend is not long and we have a lot to accomplish.

Proposed agenda:
Saturday 09:00	Welcome	, important facts		Claire and Inge
	09:30	Tutorial: ODF in KOffice		David Faure
	10:30	pause
	10:45	Q&A, discussions			Led by David
	12:00	Lunch
	13:00	Hacking begins, with lots of spontaneous meetings
	18-ish	Dinner

Sunday	early	Hacking and spontaneous meetings
	afternoon	People start packing and leave when they have to.

One thing we could discuss, and that I want people's input on is this: Should 
we start the formal agenda with the tutorial already on friday? For this to 
work, people have to arrive on friday already before noon. Please, everybody 
send a mail to clairelotion@kde.nl with your arrival and departure times so 
we can see how it stands. Also please state your views on this issue.

Equipment

I expect everybody to bring a laptop with a suitable build environment and 
operating system. :-) KDAB has been kind enough to offer us the loan of their 
laptops that they use for customer training. These are dual core machines 
with a gigabyte of RAM, so will perform as nice compile nodes in an icecream 
cluster. If anybody prefers to use them instead of his/her own laptop they 
will also be available for that (right, Mirko?). The only drawback is that 
they will perhaps not be available until saturday.

Sebastian Sauer, who lives in Berlin, has offered to set up and prepare the 
network equipment before we arrive. Thanks, dipesh!

More details about lodging and other administrivia will be sent out by Claire 
soon.  You can email me about technical and agenda stuff and her about 
organizational stuff.

Well met!

	-Inge and Claire

-- 
Inge Wallin               | Thus spake the master programmer:               |
                          |      "After three days without programming,     |
inge@lysator.liu.se       |       life becomes meaningless."                |
                          | Geoffrey James: The Tao of Programming.         |
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