KDE at QCS/QCS 2011

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KDE at the Qt Contributors Summit

The Qt Contributors Summit is happening in Berlin from 16-18 June.

Attendees

Please add your name if you are attending QCS, indicating if you are also representing another organisation or company.

We are unable to provide t-shirts, please bring your own to raise the KDE profile. The blue "Part of the solution" t-shirts are recommended.

Please indicate if you could attend a KDE meet-up/dinner on the Wednesday evening to discuss plans. A booking will be made for all people signed up by Monday.

We understand that many KDE attendees will firstly be representing your employer, but will appreciate your contribution from a KDE perspective whenever possible.

Dinner on Wednesday 15th June

We have reserved a table for 15 people for 8 pm at Brauhaus Lemke, Hackescher Markt. It's a brewery that serves German food.

The address is: Dircksenstraße, Im S-Bahnbogen 143. It is in walking distance from Alexanderplatz and the Park Inn hotel. Also close by S-Bahn-stop Hackerscher Markt.

Table is booked under the name "KDE/Rauch"


QCS Attendees
Name Dates attending Representing T-Shirt Size Hotel Wed Dinner? Comments
John Layt 15-19 June KDE S Park Inn Yes
Volker Krause 16-18 June KDAB XL
Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen 15-19 Gluon XL Park Inn yes
Lydia Pintscher 16-18 KDE M very likely
Dario Freddi 15-18 Collabora/KDE L or XL, most probably L NH Hotel AlexanderPlatz f**k yea
Aurélien Gâteau 15-18 Canonical L Park Inn Unlikely (landing at 20:25)
Richard Dale 15-18 Codethink XL Park Inn Yes
Stephen Kelly 16-18 June KDAB L
Cornelius Schumacher 15-19 June KDE XL (German size) Park Inn Yes
Artur Souza 15-19 June INdT S Park Inn Need to check
Jarosław Staniek 15-18 Samsung Electronics M Park Inn Depends on time, I'll be in hotel at ~20:30
Frederik Gladhorn 15-19 Qt/Nokia S ? Probably, not sure
Manuel Nickschas 15-18 KDE, Quassel IRC L Park Inn yes
Marius Bugge Monsen 15-19 Cutehacks M Park Inn Probably, not sure
Olivier Goffart 15-21 Qt S ? probably not.
Anselmo Melo 15-19 INdT M Park Inn not sure
Alexandra Leisse 14-19 Qt M Park Inn Unlikely...
Pierre Rossi 15-18 Qt/Nokia M Park Inn ?? Possibly
Harri Porten 15-17 froglogic XL Park Inn Possibly
Fathi Boudra 16-18 Debian, KDE, Linaro L Park Inn Possibly
Richard Moore 15-18 KDE, Westpoint Ltd L Park Inn Arriving too late

Session Topics

The proposed topics are listed on the QCS Wiki Topic List. Please add any sessions you think are required.

The following topics have already been proposed by KDE community members:

KDE topic proposals
Topic Coordinator Comments
KDE Technology in Qt John Layt (?) Specific code and functionality we want to move into Qt
Printing John Layt
Metatype / Introspection Model Stephen Kelly
KDE & Qt Communities Corenelius Schumacher, Frederik Gladhorn
Language Bindings (similar to Metatype / Introspection Model) Richard Dale

The following topics are important to the KDE community and should be attended (please add any more you think are important):

Important Topics
Topic Attendees Comments
Localization John Layt Looking at QLocale, QDateTime, maybe i18n
Build System
Platform Support
Qt Product Definition (incl Qt Addons)
Legal Training Raise questions on group code contributions
QtSql / Qt ORM Jarosław Staniek
KConfig vs. QSettings vs. DConf
QML and Qt Components Artur Souza, Jarosław Staniek

Technical Tasks

The following are technical issues KDE wants to address.

  • Printing
  • Localization
  • Date/Time
  • KUrl stuff, KIcon stuff,
  • KAction partly. The entire problem can't be solved, but some more data fields could help
  • QLineEdit clear button
  • QCompleter not powerful enough
  • Itemviews stuff
  • Mimetype stuff
  • Geolocation core classes
  • Port KConfig's INI parser to QSettings
  • A standard C++ parser (unify the KDevelop, Smoke, PySide etc parsers)
  • ...

Community Tasks

The following are tasks concerning the Qt Community and Open Governance that KDE wants to address.

  • Qt Addons website / CPAN for Qt
  • Building a relationship with Digia
  • ...