chess and barcelona

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 08 November 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > A Diumenge, 8 de novembre de 2009, Inge Wallin va escriure:
> > > On Sunday 08 November 2009 20:56:20 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > > A Diumenge, 8 de novembre de 2009, Frank Karlitschek va escriure:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > as a favor for Quim Gil from Maemo I forward two things to you
> which
> > > > > might be interesting.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 1. The Maemo people are doing a "UX meets Code" Hackfest in
> Barcelona
> > > > > in December.
> > > > > All KDE people are invited. Please see this page if you are
> > > > > interested to participate.
> > > > > http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo-Barcelona_Long_Weekend
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 2. Quim is looking for developers to help with a Qt 4.6 based chess
> > > > > game for Maemo.
> > > > > Check this page if you want to help:
> > > > > http://wiki.maemo.org/Miniature
> > > >
> > > > You want kde-games-devel at kde.org for KDE games developers, but not
> sure
> > > >  people there is interested in doing Qt/Maemo development, since it's
> > > >  really not KDE development after all.
> > >
> > > I think this reasoning is wrong.  KDE is not just the desktop
> environment
> > >  any more, it's the toolkit, including kdelibs and the community.
> > > Nowadays KDE applications are cross platform, and the more we can get
> > > into the mobile devices and make our apps run on small form factors the
> > > better.
> > >
> > > Development for Maemo is just our next frontier.
> >
> > We disagree here :-)
> >
> > As part of the KDE community I care the less for Maemo until it ships
> KDE,
> >  it shipping Qt is cool because means i have knowledge to code for it if
> i
> >  feel like, it gives me more job opportunities, and probably creates more
>
> well, the opportunity for Maemo to ship KDE should also be created, if we
> don't push it i doubt that will happen any day, if we show that using
> kdelibs
> there besides Qt can have clear advantage could instead make it happen, and
> being on a potentially successful smartphone platform is indeed -very-
> interesting
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
>

Sure, but I think that's up to Nokia (not even the maemo community, afaik).
So if Nokia decides to trust KDE by introducing our software in their
systems KDE will be able to get involved into maemo. Until that happens it's
just about choosing who to hack for.
I'm not sure what you mean by push KDE into maemo since I think it's been
working there for some time already, never tried that though.

Aleix
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