Fwd: Interest in a KDE Distro BoF?

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 6:23 PM, Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> wrote:
> I'm going!
>
> Nate

Very cool, Nate! Would you prefer doing the lightning talk, or ?

I notice that Wrishiraj Kaushik (rrix) will be speaking on Saturday.
I'll ping him to see how late in the week he's staying. He is the
developer of Libresoft (SuperX), which is based on Kubuntu in part.
Last I heard, it was the official distro in use by the government of
Assam in India. Hopefully he'll be around for the BoF as well.

Limux team, will you be there? Franklin? Meeting up and doing some
planning could be really good for all of us.

Valorie

> On 07/05/2018 05:19 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
>>
>> Hello folks, I'm going to Akademy! Tickets are bought, accomodations
>> are booked, and funding is applied for.  Now it's time to plan how to
>> support Kubuntu there. Who else is going? If you have registered, you
>> are on the attendees list and got the below. If not, please register
>> now: https://akademy.kde.org/2018
>>
>> I've signed myself up for the BoF below, and hope that some of the
>> rest of you will be there as well. So far there is only one other
>> person signed up.
>>
>> https://community.kde.org/Akademy/2018/KDE_Distro_BoF_Lightning_Talks
>>
>> What are the important points I should cover, or would someone else
>> prefer to do the talk?
>>
>> Valorie
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
>> Date: Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 4:13 PM
>> Subject: Interest in a KDE Distro BoF?
>> To: akademy-attendees at kde.org
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would be interested in hosting a BoF for KDE distros, i.e., GNU/Linux
>> distributions or distribution remixes focusing on Plasma and on KDE/Qt
>> applications (e.g.: KDE Neon, Kubuntu, Netrunner, OpenSUSE, KaOS, Kannolo,
>> etc. (list in arbitrary order and with no expectation of completeness)).
>>
>> Please note that this is my first time trying to organize a track at any
>> conference, so please bear with me if I ask the wrong questions.
>>
>> My concept would look as follows:
>>
>> 1. A lightning talk session where every KDE distribution can present
>> itself in a
>>     few minutes and talk about the choices and experiences made. Of
>> course,
>>     Plasma need not be the only desktop environment on the distribution to
>> fit in
>>     into this session, but other desktop environments should not be the
>> focus of
>>     the presentation. (If we can get a video projector ("beamer") in the
>> seminar
>>     room, that would be nice, otherwise we'll have to be content with the
>>     blackboard/whiteboard.) These presentations may also be interesting
>> (to
>>     listen to) to non-distribution people (KDE developers and even users).
>>
>> followed by
>>
>> 2. A common open discussion (classic BoF) round where we can all talk
>> together
>>     and share experiences and solutions. And I really mean "all" here:
>> even if
>>     you just package some KDE application for a non-KDE distribution, you
>> may
>>     still contribute to the discussion. Only the space constraints of the
>> room
>>     shall limit attendance.
>>
>> The topics of interest are:
>> * building a distribution, either from scratch or by choosing an upstream
>>    distribution to "remix",
>> * packaging KDE software (Plasma, KDE Applications) for distributions,
>> * building a user experience: customizations to Plasma, choice of
>> applications
>>    (e.g., Falkon vs. Firefox, minimal vs. complete default application
>> choice,
>>    etc.),
>> * challenges encountered that may be of interest to other distributions.
>>
>> My questions are:
>> * Is there interest in this?
>> * How many KDE distribution people will be present at Akademy? I see KDE
>> Neon
>>    has enough people to do a dedicated BoF, and there is me from Kannolo,
>> what
>>    other distros are coming? Are there distro packagers from the Akademy
>> sponsors
>>    (i.e., from Netrunner, Kubuntu and OpenSUSE) coming? And anyone else?
>> * So, as per the above, should I reserve some remaining slot(s) for it?
>> * If yes, what day and time would you prefer? I would go for some time on
>>    Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday even though slots are filling up on these
>> days
>>    because more people will still be there and because Thursday and Friday
>> also
>>    have the trainings.
>> * Is the format sound? Would you rather jump straight to informal
>> discussion? Or
>>    would you even rather make this a pure talk session? (I figured a mix
>> of both
>>    is probably the best to make everybody happy, but there may be other
>> ideas.)
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>          Kevin Kofler

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