Fwd: Pre dev-days sprint

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 17:35, Stefan Derkits <stefan at derkits.at> wrote:
> Hey,
>
>> On Friday 02 Sep 2011 16:07:59 Mark Kretschmann wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Mark Kretschmann<kretschmann at kde.org>
>>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Knut Yrvin<knut.yrvin at nokia.com>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Onsdag 31. august 2011, ext Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As we're getting just a little bit close now, i thought it prudent to
>>>>>> throw  out another feeler for this one. Like you were suggesting at
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Desktop Summit, shall we try and set a sprint up around the topic of
>>>>>> getting code contributed to Qt and the Qt library archive. In fact,
>>>>>> perhaps a sprint directly geared towards getting said library archive
>>>>>> up and running would be a sensible choice here, for something very
>>>>>> concrete to take with us to the QtCS day at DevDays*?
>>>>>
>>>>> If I remember correctly, the suggestion was to use the Qt Munich office
>>>>> in the weekend Oct 21-23, right before Qt Dev.Days Oct 24-26.
>>>>>
>>>>> In addition we should include and sponsor a unconference at Qt Dev.Days
>>>>> Monday Oct 24, focusing on KDE 5.0 libs and Qt contributions. My
>>>>> manager
>>>>> said we will have a room for that at the hotel + food.
>>>>>
>>>>> For those who participate 1-4 days, we can offer free Qt Dev.Days
>>>>> passes
>>>>> (with a upper limit of 40).
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope that Ralf Engels<Ralf.Engels at nokia.com>  can assist in the
>>>>> weekend as last year. We have to ask of course. Also Mark Kretschmann
>>>>> <kretschmann at kde.org>  has expressed interest in helping out. I've also
>>>>> got some positive feedback from Qt developers who like the unconference
>>>>> thing, interested in participating :)
>>>>
>>>> Actually I am more interested in a Pre-DevDays sprint in the Munich
>>>> office. At the conference I will be very busy with the Qt Quick
>>>> Training from Nuno, and talking to many people. The same is true for
>>>> other UX people from Nokia.
>>>>
>>>> Tackling something as complex as Qt is not in the cards for me, during
>>>> the conference. I'll be happy to provide advice though.
>>>
>>> And the topic for that Pre-DevDays sprint should please not be Qt. I
>>> don't know the code base at all, so I won't be able to do any hacking.
>>> I'm more interested in UI, e.g. coming up with touch interfaces for
>>> KDE applications.
>>
>>  The problem i see with doing the touch interfaces for Qt thing at this
>> sprint would be that that's really a Plasma Active topic, and they already
>> host several sprints over the course of the year. Hence why i suggested
>> this
>> sprint be about building the Qt Library Archive. Note that this is not
>> about
>> Qt itself, this is specifically about the stuff that /doesn't/ fit into Qt
>> proper - things like Gluon's OpenAL wrapper library and other similar
>> things.
>> Hope that clears up that little misunderstanding a touch.
>
> I'm interested in the preDevDays Sprint & the Qt DevDays, so count me in ;)

Ditto for me, actually more interested in the DevDays and the Qt
training sessions than the sprint which is probably far too dev
centric for me.


Regards, Myriam

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