Akademy/2014/AllBoF
All BoF Sessions
BoF sessions on Monday, September 8 2014
All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.
Possible BoF Wrap-up
Outside the main entrance of Technicka 10, grassy slope by the reflecting pool, on the right as you exit the building - 18:00
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project.
Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.
Room 1 - 8 September
| Room 1 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 10:00 | Workshop: From QtWidgets Legacy to QtQuick and beyond | Kevin Ottens |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Workshop: Integrating native features with your Qt mobile app | Kai Uwe Broulik |
| 15:00 | ||
| 16:00 | Workshop: Profiling 101 | Milian Wolff |
| 17:00 | Workshop: Put your code to the test! | Shantanu Tushar |
Room 2 - 8 September
| Room 2 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 10:00 | Workshop: Creating interface mockups and textures with KDE software | Timothée Giet |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Workshop: Visual Design and QML | Andrew Lake |
| 15:00 | ||
| 16:00 | Workshop: Effective Speech Recognition in Your Application | Peter Grasch |
| 17:00 | Workshop: Improving the KDE <-> Qt community ties | Tero Kojo |
Room 3 - 8 September
| Room 3 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | Kexi - Towards leading point&click application development environment for individuals, education, organizations and businesses. | Interested? You're welcome! You'll hear what happened within the past 10 years, share opinions, learn about possible areas of contribution (coding, testing, documentation, software design, UX design, promo) and perhaps business too. Kexi is a feature-packed software. It's the only FOSS and Qt-friendly offering table, query and business reports designers. It contains a kind of Qt Designer for data-aware forms. Javascript-based scripting, web/cloud services are coming! -- Jarosław Staniek (staniek @ kde.org, maintainer) |
| 10:30 | Application Scripting | Sharing experiences of using script languages like JavaScript or Python to write extensions for Qt/KDE applications. Discussion of possibilities for shared scripting framework, QtScript vs QJSEngine, etc |
| 11:30 | Application Scripting | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | FOSS in Taiwan -- The NTPC project, and the KDE's problem we see here. | This is about promoting, not technique session. NTPC project is an important milestone of promoting FOSS in Taiwan's school. I'll describe the whole project, and its status now. Also, during this project, what KDE's problems we saw? -- Franklin Weng <franklin at goodhorse dot idv dot tw>, the coordinator of KDE zh_TW l10n team. |
| 15:00 | Plasma | |
| 16:00 | Plasma | |
| 17:00 | Plasma |
Room 4 - 8 September
| Room 4 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | The Ten Commandments of Technical Writing | A talk by Mikey Ariel, senior technical writer at Red Hat. The talk covers the basic principles of technical writing within the context of open source projects. |
| 11:30 | The Ten Commandments of KDE Documentation | Moderated discussion where we examine the KDE doc base, find the main pain points, and create a prioritized list of action items for improving the documentation. notes |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 1700 | Documentation hackfest | Come and hack at the KDE documentation! Based on what we covered in the morning sessions, let's get started on those action items while the information (and enthusiasm) are fresh in our minds. All are welcome, even if you missed the morning sessions! |
| 17:00 | KDE Austria BoF | Probably never before Akademy was closer to Vienna, the heart of Austria. It's time for all Austrians, Neighbours and people who have ideas how to strengthen/enlarge the local community to come together and discuss ideas. |
Room 5 - 8 September
| Room 5 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 - 11:30 | User Interface Design Room | You would like some interaction and/or visual design input for your project? KDE's visual designers and usability experts are here to help you! (Host: Thomas Pfeiffer) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Follow up on "A quick guide how you can save the world or why it is impossible to do usability" | Let's disuss ideas and open questions arising from my talk on Sunday 11:40 and let's see if we can actually start to save the world. (Host: Björn Balazs) |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Packagers bof | Place for packagers to shake hands and hug eachother - and whine about the evil upstreamers. (Host: Sune) |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Human-Centered Design for the KDE HIG | We see the KDE Human Interface Guidelines as a product, so we use human-centered design to optimize the HIG for its users, which are KDE developers as well as designers. So come to this BoF to help us find out what you need! (Host: Thomas Pfeiffer) |
| 17:00 | User Interface Design Room | See above |
BoF sessions on Tuesday, September 9 2014
All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.
BoF Wrap-up
Ground Floor Lobby; 18:00
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project.
Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.
Room 1 - 9 September
| Room 1 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 10:00 - 12:30 | Plasma Media Center | Discussion about current features PMC have and upcoming features for next release. Next PMC release will be a major release (2.0), so good time to provide any kind of feedback/ideas which can be added into it. There will be also discussion on overall vision of PMC.
--- Sinny Kumari ([email protected]) |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | KDE Frameworks | Details here |
| 15:00 | KDE Frameworks | |
| 16:00 | KDE Frameworks | |
| 17:00 | KDE Frameworks |
Room 2 - 9 September
| Room 2 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | Inqlude | Follow up discussion on Everything Qt. How do we make best use of Inqlude as Qt library archive? How do we benefit within KDE? How do we use it to popularize Frameworks to the Qt community? What is needed on a technical level? Host: Cornelius Schumacher |
| 11:30 | Solid | You can find some info here, feel free to add your tasks, requests or whatever you want. |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 17:00 | Solid | You can find some info here, feel free to add your tasks, requests or whatever you want. |
Room 3 - 9 September
| Room 3 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 - 11:30 | Network KCM discussion | You would like some interaction and/or visual design input for your project? KDE's visual designers and usability experts are here to help you! (Host: Thomas Pfeiffer) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | The future of Activities | How can Activities be (more) useful? Hosts: Björn + Ivan |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | User Interface Design Room | (See above) at 15:00 discussing Artikulate's design |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | "Workspace-wide services on non-file objects" | Guest: Friedrich |
Room 4 - 9 September
| Room 4 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 - 12:30 | KDE PIM BoF | Host: Daniel Vrátil (does not mean he's in charge of the BoF :-)) Notes |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | KDE Edu use in India | The FOSS community in Hyderabad, India (with help from ThoughtWorks) have started to use KDE Edu apps for teaching children in govt run schools. We have made some progress and also have plans on adding new applications. This BoF will help to plan how to use KDE Edu better and integrating the new applications. Please join us if you work with any KDE Edu application. (Rishab Arora, Shantanu Tushar) |
| 15:00 | ||
| 16:00 | KDE India Future Plans | From Future event plans to setting up Legal identity in India. |
| 17:00 | Localization BoF | Albert Astals Cid |
Room 5 - 9 September
| Room 5 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | ||
| 15:00 | ||
| 16:00 | ||
| 17:00 |
BoF sessions on Wednesday, September 10 2014
All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.
Possible BoF Wrap-up
Room ??; 18:00
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project.
Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.
BoF rooms will close at 12:30
Room 1 - 10 September
| Room 1 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | Accessibility | Frederik: learn how to test apps with screen readers, get involved (fixing the KCM for example). Ask any question. |
| 10:30 | Accessibility | |
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Room 2 - 10 September
| Room 2 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | Release Team BoF | Albert Astals Cid - Follow-up discussion after https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2014/public/events/142 |
| 10:30 | The Case For Spyware BoF | Albert Astals Cid - Follow-up discussion after https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2014/public/events/161 |
| 11:30 | The KDE Applications website[s] | Andreas Cord-Landwehr - Generating KDE Applications website[s] from appdata files discussion |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Room 3 - 10 September
| Room 3 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 - 12:30 | User Interface Design Room | You would like some interaction and/or visual design input for your project? KDE's visual designers and usability experts are here to help you! (Host: Thomas Pfeiffer) |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Room 4 - 10 September
| Room 4 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Room 5 - 10 September
| Room 5 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch |
BoF sessions on Thursday, September 11 2014
All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.
Possible BoF Wrap-up
Room ??; 18:00
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project.
Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.
Room 1 - 11 September
| Room 1 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | Language Learning File Format | Andreas Cord-Landwehr, Inge Wallin |
| 10:30 | Language Learning File Format | Andreas Cord-Landwehr, Inge Wallin |
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | KDevelop | Milian Wolff |
| 15:00 | ||
| 16:00 | ||
| 17:00 |
Room 2 - 11 September
| Room 2 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | SLC - internals and UI (wayland, kpeople, ...) | Ivan and the rest of Plasma team |
| 10:30 | SLC - contd. | Ivan and the rest of Plasma team |
| 11:30 | KDE France | Discussion about the France KDE community next main actions, Akademy-Fr, http://fr.kde.org, brainstorming... Host: Kévin Ottens (ervin) |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | "Quality is in the eye of the beholder" BoF post discussion | Albert Astals Cid - Discussion post https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2014/public/events/96 |
| 15:00 | Okular BoF | Albert Astals Cid |
| 16:00 | Fundraiser Team BoF | Albert Astals Cid |
| 17:00 |
Room 3 - 11 September
| Room 3 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | ||
| 10:30 - 12:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 18:00 |
Room 4 - 11 September
| Room 4 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| 11:30 | KDE Windows | Patrick / If you have any questions regarding KDE on Windows just join the BOF. |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | ||
| 15:00 | ||
| 16:00 | ||
| 17:00 |
Room 5 - 11 September
| Room 5 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | Kubuntu | |
| 10:30 | Kubuntu | https://notes.kde.org/p/kubuntu-akademy |
| 11:30 | Kubuntu | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Kubuntu | |
| 15:00 | Kubuntu | |
| 16:00 | Kubuntu | |
| 17:00 | Kubuntu |
BoF sessions on Friday, September 12 2014
All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.
Possible BoF Wrap-up
Room ??; 18:00
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project.
Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.
Room 1 - 12 September
| Room 1 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | ||
| 15:00 |
Room 2 - 12 September
| Room 2 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | ||
| 15:00 |
Room 3 - 12 September
| Room 3 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | ||
| 15:00 |
Room 4 - 12 September
| Room 4 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | ||
| 14:00 | ||
| 15:00 |
Room 5 - 12 September
| Room 5 | seats 20 | |
|---|---|---|
| Time | Subject | Host/Notes |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:30 | ||
| 11:30 | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | ||
| 15:00 |