chess and barcelona

[Marco Martin]

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