Dot article about the calligra sprint in Essen / Bangalore

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Looks good, here's what we can put for `<WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOCIAL
PART OF THE SPRINT IN BANGALORE HERE.>'

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The sprint at Bangalore saw few first timers - Jigar Raisinghani, Nityam
Vakil, Somsumbhra Bairi and Smit Patel who joined us all the way from
DAIICT, Gujarat. Along with them, we had Gopal K, Sudhendu Kumar and Sujith
H from Bangalore attending a Calligra sprint for the first time. Mani N C
and Shantanu Tushar joined the sprint as well. Along with a lot of hacking
on Sheets, Words, Krita and Calligra Active we also had a good time and
explored some nice places to have dinner in Koramangala, the area around
the venue. This very well helped our tradition of having Indian food at the
Calligra sprint, which was even spicier this time.
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Also, missing in the photos was Smit Patel because he wasn't present during
the time we took it. That makes the attendance count at Bangalore to 9
instead of 8.
I'm wondering, where are the group photos that we took in Linux Hotel with
the projector showing Bangalore? Never got to seeing one of those.

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Inge Wallin <inge at lysator.liu.se> wrote:

> I have been working on a dot article with feedback from Friedrich Kossebau.
> Following an experiment from the KDEPIM sprint, I'm going to put up the
> article here on the list for feedback before I submit it to the dot.
>
> Since the ML can't handle attachments (I think), I will insert the text
> here
> below instead. The parts about what happened in India is from a blog from
> Shantanu Tushar, and I don't feel that I have enough about that part yet so
> please fill in with more details there.
>
>         -Inge
>
> Calligra Sprint Held on 2 Locations
> -----------------------------------
>
> The first calligra sprint in a long time was held On the weekend
> 9th-10th of March with people gathering already on friday. This is
> nothing unique - but what was different from previous Calligra sprints
> and I think from all other KDE sprints was that it was held at 2
> locations at the same time: the Linux Hotel in Essen, Germany, and the
> offices of ThoughtWorks in Bangalore, India.  There were 11 people in
> Germany and 8 in India.
>
> Communications were solved using video conferencing in Google
> Hangout. This worked surprisingly well with both picture and sound
> coming through with decent quality even with the very long distance
> between India and Germany.
>
> The Serious
> -----------
>
> One thing that was different from previous Calligra sprints was that
> there was actually a lot of hacking going on. Saturday was assigned
> for design discussions and Sunday was used mostly for BOFs and
> hacking.
>
> Among other things, the following was discussed:
>
>  * Calligra Active
>
>  * Even better separation between the engine and the UI and a big
>    refactoring to better use the Model/View/Controller
>    architecture. Older versions of KOffice / Calligra used KParts to a
>    large extent and we want to move away from that in our internal
>    architecture.  Of course, KParts can still be provided by wrappers
>    so that e.g. Konqueror can still show ODF documents.
>
>  * Friedrich Kossebau presented the state of his MVC-oriented
>    framework "Kasten", which might not yet be ready to serve as new
>    base for Calligra, but has so far at least inspired quite some
>    ideas how to redo the Calligra architecture.
>
>  * How to make Calligra work better on Windows and how we can create
>    packages for MacOS X.
>
> While the discussions during Saturday were held in the larger group
> the ones on Sunday broke up into smaller groups. BOFs were held for
> Krita brushes and filters, a DOCX export filter, Calligra QML
> components, and many other that I might have missed.
>
> Last weekend we hosted the Indian part of the Calligra Sprint
> <http://community.kde.org/Calligra/Meetings/Spring_2013_Sprint/>at
> ThoughtWorks Bangalore office. This sprint was a focused meetup of the
> developers to come together and collaborate with the format having a round
> of discussions over current problems and the design changes to fix those.
> This is followed by 2 days of implementation/spiking out the new ideas.
>
> The sprint was ended with a renewed sense of community and a group
> photo taken using the projector to show the Indian group combined with
> the German group.
>
> The Fun
> -------
>
> Naturally not everything that happens is work.  This sprint also had
> lots of laughs and social gatherings. In the German part we cooked our
> own dinners featuring pasta with lots of different types of
> sauces, from completely vegetarian to pretty meaty.  The master chefs
> were Dan Jensen, Arjen Hiemstra and Thorsten Zachmann.
>
> On Sunday we had pizza for lunch, which gave Lukas Tvrdy the
> opportunity to play with the electric car in the Linux Hotel, a
> Reanault Twizy.  Since it didn't have side windows and the rain poured
> down, the pizza boxes got a little wet, and so did Lukas but he seemed
> happy anyway.
>
> <DO WE HAVE ANY PICTURES OF THE PASTA DINNER?>
>
> And we also got a taste of the wild Slovakian life when we tasted the
> famous Tatratea liquour brought by Matus Uzak.
>
> <WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT THE SOCIAL PART OF THE SPRINT IN BANGALORE HERE.>
>
>
> The Calligra community would like to thank the KDE e.V. and KO GmbH
> for sponsoring this sprint and Thoughtworks for letting us use their
> office.  Without them this sprint would not have been possible. We
> would also like to thank the Linux Hotel for it's community friendly
> offerings of their really nice and well-working venue. And thanks to
> Claudia, the KDE e.V.s business manager, for her quick and
> uncomplicated handling of any issues.
>
>
> <INSERT GROUP PHOTO HERE>, e.g.:
> [image:
> http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8234/8543634811_d4c580ac49.jpg]<
> http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8234/8543634811_d4c580ac49.jpg>
>
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Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
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