[dot] Report from the Decibel Hackathon

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From: Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at basyskom.de>
Dept: dB
Date: Friday23/Mar/2007, @10:12

Report from the Decibel Hackathon
=================================

   At the Decibel Hackathon sponsored by NL.net [http://nlnet.nl/] and
basysKom GmbH [http://www.basyskom.de/] in Darmstadt, Germany
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmstadt] last weekend, hackers from the
KDE [http://www.kde.org/] community met to discuss the handling of
contact data in KDE 4. Read on for a summary of the event.
      From left to right: Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett,Friedrich Kossebau,
Will Stephenson, Tobias Hunger, Volker Krause, Stanislav Karchebny,
Dominik Haumann 
[http://static.kdenews.org/danimo/decibel-groupphoto.jpg]
     First Tobias Hunger (Decibel [http://decibel.kde.org/]) and Will
Stephenson (Kopete [http://kopete.kde.org/]) described the needs of
their projects for data storage. Then Volker Krause from Akonadi
[http://pim.kde.org/akonadi/] gave an introduction to their data storage
system, followed by a presentation on the Khalkhi
[http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Khalkhi+framework?content=54450]
framework done by Friedrich Kossebau. With these presentations forming a
basis for the further discussions we were able to define workflows to
handle contact data across the new frameworks involved in KDE 4. Dominik
Haumann (Kate) [http://kate-editor.org/], Duncan Mac-Vicar (Kopete),
Geert Vlastuin (not involved with open source projects before) and
Stanislav Karchebny (Skype [http://www.skype.com/]) provided valuable
input, addressing needs they forsee from their own perspective.

     More tangible results of the meeting include updates to Decibel's
as well as QtTapioca's build system to work on Decibel to make it
optionally a KDE component as well as a pure Qt application, fixes for
several warnings found, as well as stability improvements. Further
details can be found in the blog posts by Will
[http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2728], Duncan
[http://duncan.mac-vicar.com/blog/archives/197], Stanislav
[http://nodalpoint.madfire.net/articles/2007/03/19/sounds-of-the-shuttle]
and Tobias [http://basysblog.org/index.php/archives/decibel-hackathon].

     The event was a success, fostering the integration of different KDE
technologies and improving the interaction between developers on a
personal level over some beer and pizza on Saturday evening.