Calligra/Meetings/Mid 2009 meeting/Ideas

For a somewhat final agenda, see Programme.

Tell here about things you want to discuss, so that we can prepare an agenda.

Please add yourself as an 'owner' of an idea and prepare something if applicable to make optimal use of our time. Indicates what you want to be developed in a general session (on Saturday), or in a BoF (on Sunday)

General session

• Update on KOfficeSource gmbh^W(some new name). There will also be a guest presentation.
• Collaborative editing
  • Presentation of kword change tracker (PierreSt)
  • Presentation of krita action recorder (Cyrille)
  • Overview of KDE technologies (telepathy, kopete widgets, etc)
• Community (user/devs)
  • Team building (Alexandra)
  • Documentation
  • Community building, next step ?
• Marketing
  • KAtelier
• Release process (Cyrille)
  • koffice library organisation (kofficelibs module vs koffice/libs, organization and hierarchy of our libraries) (boud)
  • kofficelibs what should go in kformula, KoXmlReader as candidates for now.
  • How to make it easier to edit / read/ understand KOffice code?
  • What parts of Kexi are going to be standalone libraries (often Qt-only) (Jaroslaw)
• Integration
  • Flake (Thorsten)
    • update needed to make it possible for kpresenter to do all effects on shapes. e.g. change color of a shape
    • page variables how to make them work for kopageapp
    • predefined styles support for graphical objects like for text styles
    • missing features
    • Source code reorganization to make shapes more stand-alone (example: parts of the text shape is in kword)
    • add a way to the textshape to make its content vertical alignable
    • ideas about what the connection tool should permit users to do
    • notification when shape properties change, (mis)use of shape property widgets
  • Kexi & KOffice short/mid/long term planning (Jaroslaw)
    • What are data/database-related needs that Kexi can cover for other apps (tabular data import/export, conenctivity, mail merge, integration with reporting)
    • ODT format as a base for document-based reporting (i.e. more like the mail merge, not the current Kexi Reports)
• next meeting, when, how long, where ?

Orphan ideas (ideas that need someone to pick it up, if we want to talk about it)

• Use of mindmapping in KOffice (would belong in integration section)

BoF

• Krita :
  • Optimizations Where is Krita slow? (Color management, Krita vs Gimp)
  • Krita scripting API
  • Image shape
  • 3D Brush
  • Brushop palette
  • Tiles backend
  • Dynamic brush
  • Durian? (Sven)
  • Shape management (Sven)
• Collaborative editing (Cyrille, PierreSt)
  • brainstorming (BoF)
  • What's needed, how to converge ?
• GSoC
  • Some time for students to meet their mentors and discuss their projects and ask questions.
  • tables for textshape
  • formula shape