2 workshops for the conference

[Eva Brucherseifer]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 15:22, Christopher TenHarmsel wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2003 02:50, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> > 2) Under Windows, MacOS and other operating systems, the user is used to
> > a consistant set of tools for basic system administration. Currently
> > every distribution ships their own setup routines for that. While this is
> > perfectly fine for the setup itself, I think tools for basic system
> > administration (at least for the average set of tasks a home user has,
> > I'd prefer DE-integrated tools (I am thinking of a KControl spin-off
> > similar to KInfoCenter containing applets for (basic) system
> > administration). Those should have backends for each distributor to fit
> > his needs (ideally perl I guess, assuming Perl knowlege > C++ kowledge at
> > most distributors). The other side is probably the marketing side of
> > things (many people buy Distributions because they like their tools, so I
> > guess many don't even want to drop sets of them for the sake of something
> > common. This also needs to be worked out.
> >
> > Type: Workshop
> > Participants: KControl-involved/interested developers, distributors
> > Organizer: so far only me. Chris, can you come/are you interested?
>
> When is the event at Nove Hrady?  I'm hoping to be in Europe for LinuxTag

You can check it out here: http://dot.kde.org/1051497356/

> in July, but I'm in the states until then, so I probably won't be able to
> make it.  I think it's a great focus area though, as I highly agree that
> basic system administration tools for the desktop user are just about
> completely missing, and most tools that exist aim somewhere inbetween smart
> user and linux expert, completely leaving out people who aren't very
> familiar with linux at all.

One word about LinuxTag: We'll handle Linuxtag a bit different from last year 
(probably we should make this more public, it seems some developers expect it 
be a little developer meeting again as the last years). The differences are:
- focussing on the promo aspect
- no funding of travel expenses
- funding for hotel only if one helps out at the booth a significant amount of 
his time during the event
- all developers who want to come to Linuxtag in order to meet other 
developers should consider travelling to Nove Hrady instead

The main reason is, that our (KDE e.V.'s) budget is not that high and we want 
to spend it rather in Nove Hrady than for Linuxtag. Also people might not be 
able to travel twice and they want to meet as many KDE people as possible. 
This will be possible in Nove Hrady (we have 150 places there).

That for the general idea. It would be cool to have a meeting of the promo 
team at one of the events. Also members of the promo team might be interested 
to see how we do promotion in Germany. As far as I know the members of the 
german team will be present at both events, so for us it doesn't really 
matter where we have a meeting.

Greetings,
eva

>
> Even if I can't be there, I'd like to stay involved in any discussions
> about this.
>
> -Chris