Random bits from Osnabruck: day 0+1
Yesterday I woke up, put some clothes in a bag and drove up to Hengelo to pickup Bertjan and go to the PIM-Meeting. The drive was fine. In some of the narrow streets of Osnabruck the roads were a bit slippery, so I could verify that my cars traction control was working just fine and it informs me that it is working due to flashy light on the dashboard. Good to know that….
At the meeting we started right away with addressing some of the pending issues. It is amazing how much faster you can get all to the same page when you are in a face-to-face meeting. Like evaluating the Akonadi migration. We all agree the beta period has been pretty good in that regard. A lot of distro’s made changes in the packaging and we got a good overview about which areas need a bit more work. And that’s exactly what the goals were.
We also talked about kdepim runtime split and the move of akonadi to freedesktop.org. Kevin already blogged about that earlier, so no point in repeating that. This morning we had a very nice presentations from the student project from Toulouse. They have created applications for addressbook and calendars which work based on Akonadi and the layout is adjusted for the Nokia N810. It was nice to see that. After that Bertjan presented a bit about what he was working on, which resulted in nice discussions about licensing within KDE. I hope we can lift the awereness of licensing and copyright a bit, so in 10 years we don’t end up with a mess.
Also we discussed a bit about Akonadi promotion, the websites, bug handling and kdepim on the mac and windows. There is so much to discuss. It is important to see that everyone is talking to everyone, everyone is eating with random sets of people. No fixed groups of people all hanging out with only the same poeple. The KDEPIM team seems to be bigger and more friendly than ever… to be continued…
Hi,
Thanks for taking the time to comment. I had just little time to write my blog, so I kept it short. The next weeks I will blog about some parts in more detail.
But basically, you are right, we suck at making websites. It is caused due to the fact we are mostly technical people and not good in wording stuff for a websites. Next to that, there is nobody who pulls it out of us…
Basically we just need help and in a way that is substantial and long lasting. Sometime someone comes by, does a bit and is then probably dissapointed in us and leaves, leaving the websites unmaintained.
I hope you understand it, there is not much that we can do, except prevent happening it in the future…
Nice to hear some first comments from Osnabrück.
I have only one suggestion: Please decide to give the KDE-PIM-Website some love! You said you discussed already about “the websites, bug handling” etc. What were the topics?
The Websites are very outdated, the bug-tracker is full of bugs not having any comment from the developers since 2004! Please do something about it! Even the Wikipedia-Pages about KDE-PIM are more informative than the official website.
There is some information needed, what the current features of the suite are, what the short-, mid- and long-term plans were (per application!). Which Bugs do you plan to work on? When do you plan to work on? What were the Milestones? Many questions — (nearly) no answer.
Since 2005, the only “news” you posted on the KDE-PIM main-page were three lines about the meetings in Osnabrück. This year no one even posted this! The KDE-PIM-Project is so important for KDE, please let the Users know, what you plan to do with it! Even in your Blogs, there is not much information about it!
Thanks for your attention,
Philip
PS: Sorry for my poor English