Akademy talk proposal

[Vladislav Blanton]

Excellent Marta, 

I wish I could be there. Perhaps by some interesting turn of events, I
may make it.

Vlad

On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 12:05 +0100, Marta Rybczynska wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've written the talk proposal. The complete content is not needed at this 
> point, only the abstract.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> --------------------
> One-paragraph description (~60 words)
> 
> This talk will help the audience to understand the way we produce the Commit 
> Digest, the weekly overview
> of KDE development activity. It will provide tips for the developers allowing 
> them to make their features
> and applications more visible, but also to get new developers and promote 
> them.
> 
> Abstract (~250 words)
> 
> KDE Commit Digest is a weekly overview of KDE development activity based on 
> commits in KDE repositories.
> The digest is created by a team of people reviewing and classifying the 
> commits. 
> 
> The main goal of the talk is to create better understanding between the 
> developers and the digest
> team to help each other better. Another important topic will be the ways to 
> use the digest to reach out
> the whole community and even outside of it.
> 
> In the technical part, we will describe the digest workflow and point out the 
> things that help for better
> use of the digest. We will tell you how we choose the commits to include in 
> the digest, will give hints on
> the preferred commit message content, special tags that can point to important
> changes, writing featured articles, and more.
> 
> The second part of the talk will be devoted to the community role of the 
> digest: informative and promotional.
> We will give ideas how you can use it to gain new developers and promote them, 
> how to promote new interesting
> projects and (least but not least) how to gain new users.
> 
> We would like the talk to be highly interactive and also get feedback on how 
> we can help the community to grow.
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