BoF session at the MeeGo conference

[Bart Cerneels]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:36, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 08 November 2010, Bart Cerneels wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 20:43, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Thursday 26 August 2010, Bart Cerneels wrote:
>> >> Has anyone on this list already send a BoF session proposal?
>> >>
>> >> I was thinking of the following:
>> >>
>> >> We (KDE) and others (Qt) developers have written a lot of Qt code
>> >> already. It makes perfect sense to try and reuse this code on the
>> >> latest and most exiting Qt platform: MeeGo.
>> >> This BoF session will be an open, example led discussion between
>> >> developers who want to port whole applications or use existing
>> >> libraries and technologies on the MeeGo platform.
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> > we are a bunch of people registered in this session. what we are going to
>> > do? i was thinking about mini sesisons of ~10 minutes each?
>> > then ok, being a bof will be more interaction and less formal, just to
>> > come a bit prepared about it :D
>>
>> I'm working on a little case study for my employer, trying out some
>> concepts I think will work well with QML. I would like to present
>> this, lightning talk style and focusing on the concepts, not the
>> specific application.
>> So in short, I second your idea :).
>> To start the session though someone should do an introduction,
>> summarize what we already knew about QML and MeeGo and the new things
>> we learned at the conference. Let's say that takes another 10 to 15
>> minutes at the start. I would volunteer but I thing there are more
>> experience people, both in leading a BoF session and MeeGo/QML on this
>> list. Hence I would gladly step aside for anyone feeling the call.
>
> uhm, what would be the introduction about? kinda a quick overview on kde
> mobile projects? problem is probably everybody just knows well enough his own
> ;) (at least i dunno if i could make justice to kontact mobile or the
> modularization effort)

This BoF session is open to all and I hope we'll get people who are
only barely familiar with KDE, hence might not know about KDE-mobile
efforts. So we should at least spend 5 minutes listing what we, as
KDE, are doing. It can also help during the discussions as a reference
point, i.e. slides with screenshots to pull up.

> but yeah i could think about something to say as well :)
> then for me the situation is similar to yours, i know qml, but meego/meego
> touch eeh, not really :D
>

I think we can safely assume MeeGo will be mostly QML, Qt hides the
nitty-gritty of the platform anyway, at least for the kind of
applications we work on. But I'm sure we'll all be more knowledgeable
about MeeGo by the time of this BoF session. And let's not forget,
there are real experts on this mailing list and listed in the BoF
session.

Bart