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[Aaron J. Seigo]

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On Saturday 19 July 2003 05:13, Harri Porten wrote:
> just wanted to let you know that Havoc Pennington has confirmed that
> he'll be able to make it to the conference (22.-27.). 

cool

> He has handed in 
> abstracts for two talks (freedesktop.org/GNOME and D-BUS) which should
> be valuable contributions.

the DBUS talk sounds interesting. i have reservations over the 
freedesktop.org/GNOME talk, however. these reservations stem not from the 
freedesktop.org part of it, which i think is timely and on-topic, but the 
GNOME part of it. 

from the abstract at 
http://events.kde.org/info/kastle/conference_program.phtml:

" To build common infrastructure, first we have to understand the various 
toolkits and applications that currently make up the open source desktop 
community. Thus, part of this talk will describe the state of the GNOME 
desktop infrastructure, including both the positives and the negatives. Where 
would GNOME developers be most interested in making improvements? What 
lessons can we learn from GNOME's experiences, about what to do and what not 
to do?"

perhaps the abstract is misleading, but this talk sounds fairly off-topic for 
a KDE conference. a discussion of GNOME's infrastructure is likely 
interesting within the context of GNOME, but out of respect for the people 
who are spending time and money to attend this conference to learn about, 
discuss and improve KDE, the conference should be kept on-topic. how much of 
this talk is going to focus on GNOME, exactly?

note that i'm not saying "don't say anything about GNOME or other platforms at 
Kastle". some of the other talks will be doing just that. the talks on 
accessability and KStreamer are two examples, but the emphasis is still 
firmly on KDE in those discussions.

IMHO, if deemed necessary, Havoc should be made aware that the focus of his 
talk should be KDE since that is the topic of the conference and the abstract 
updated to reflect that.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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