akademy talk?

[Carl Symons]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a first version of the talk description and abstract.
>
> i wanted it to be mostly a step by step guide how to write, so pretty
> technical, but since would become very boring, with a little section as well
> talking about guidelines (that are being developed on the wiki now) on what
> makes an application active or not, technically and visually.

Maybe too much? With my limited knowledge of what is involved, it
seems like there might be 3 interesting and valuable presentations in
your proposal.

1. Creating a mobile application for Plasma Active using technologies such as...
2. Strategies for porting desktop applications
3. Perspective for the future, what is to be expected with the
introduction of KDE Frameworks 5 and the Plasma 2 framework as part of
it.

It's important to the dissemination and adoption of Plasma Active to
have appropriate apps. Presentations 1 and 2 would be entry points and
practical information about how developers can get involved.

The bigger picture of Presentation 3, among other things, defines a
destination to be considered when developing within areas covered by 1
and 2.

Plasma Active will be a hot topic at Akademy. Having several
presentations and presenters would be nice. Desktop Summit was
speculative...a series of presentations showing "what if". These
presentations could be "what now". DTS revealed an opportunity that
was interesting particularly for people who wanted to join or follow
PA progress. At Akademy 2012, there are possibilities for many more
people to join a critical part of the PA effort _doing their own
thing_.

I was on IRC with Nuno yesterday. He is already building cool and
pretty apps for mobile, but often needs technical assistance. It would
be valuable if the presentations gave way to collaborative hacking
sessions. Maybe create an Akademy goal such as doubling the size of
the PA App Store. Or create a crowd-sourced "most wanted PA apps"
ahead of time that collaborative hacking sessions could focus on
during Akademy.

Hacking teams combining:
marketing/business/user-oriented people
technical/hard core coders
UI/appearance experts

Carl

>
>
> ----
> Title: Writing Plasma Active applications
>
> Length: 30 minutes
>
> Short:
> The talk will talk about the status of the applications of Plasma Active, and
> guide towards the steps in the creation of a mobile application for Plasma
> Active using technologies as QML, the Plasma UI components and the KDE
> libraries, strategies for porting desktop applications and future plans of
> development.
>
> Long Abstract:
> There is a very large range of excellent applications written on top of the
> KDE platform, the vast majority of them targeted to desktop devices.
> Mobile devices have a different pattern of interaction, it means that most of
> the desktop applications have an user interface that is unsuitable for mobile
> devices, with medium or small screen resolutions and input method deeply
> reliant on touch screens rather the traditional WIMP model.
> However, most of the kde platform technology is not related to the desktop
> itself and is in great part independent from any user interface, therefore is
> of great value in building mobile applications.
> The talk will cover the architecture of some of the applications shipped
> alongside Plasma Active, and devine what makes an application an “Active
> application” from both a technological perspective and a design one.
> There will be a step by step guide in writing a new application using QML and
> the Plasma UI components. The talk will also cover perspective for the future
> and what is to be expected with the introduction of KDE Frameworks 5 and the
> Plasma 2 framework as part of it.
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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