BoF sessions on Tuesday, August 14th 2018

All rooms are on the third floor (except 125, second floor) of Neues EI and have either a blackboard or a whiteboard.

Floor plans:

If you need any other equipment, please send an email to [email protected].
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

BoF Wrap-up at 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.

The Akademy team might reasign BoFs based on operational needs

Room 121 (37 people, priority for workshops) - 14th August

121
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	KDE India	We'll spend some time discussing how to sustain and scale our growing KDE India community and plan for the next edition of conf.kde.in. The BoF is open to all community members interested in KDE India activities. Host: Devaja Shah, Bhushan Shah
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Streamlined Onboarding	General discussion on issues about this goal. Plan how to move forward with the "Making it easy to set up a development environment for KDE software" objective and discuss about the upcoming related sprint. Host: Neofytos Kolokotronis
15:00
16:00
17:00

Room 122 (25 people) - 14th August

122
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	VDG Current State	Andy Betts (Anditosan) - Revision of work to date and new work coming up.
11:30	VDG Goals	Andy Betts (Anditosan) General session to define goals for the future. Community input.
12:30	Lunch
14:00	KDE neon	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/kde-neon-bof-2018 - exact schedule TBD - [email protected]
15:00	KDE neon	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/kde-neon-bof-2018 - exact schedule TBD - [email protected]
16:00	KDE neon	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/kde-neon-bof-2018 - exact schedule TBD - [email protected]
17:00	GPG Key Signing	Akademy/2018/GPGKeys - [email protected]

Room 125 (20 people) - 14th August

125
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	KDE and Qt BOF	Session for members of the KDE community who are interested in KDE’s collaboration with Qt – We will talk about the KDE Free Qt Foundation (legal setup; history and future; perspectives: What is important for the KDE community going forward?) Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer <[email protected]>
10:30	Config Workshop (1)	Topics: Collaboration with https://www.libelektra.org; Config Migrations, kconf_update; See Akademy/2018/Config_Workshop; Host: Markus Raab <[email protected]>
11:30	Config Workshop (2)	Topics: Collaboration with https://www.libelektra.org; KConfig XT (code generation), caching of configuration files; See Akademy/2018/Config_Workshop; Host: Markus Raab <[email protected]>
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Config Workshop (3)	Topics: Collaboration with https://www.libelektra.org; Configuration Management, Configuration Specification (Schemas), Kiosk Mode; See Akademy/2018/Config_Workshop; Host: Markus Raab <[email protected]>
15:00	The Maui Project	The Maui project aims for a cohesive shell and set of apps tightly integrated that work on mobile and desktop devices, such as Android, Plasma Mobile and GNU Linux distributions. Maui makes use of KDE technologies. With this session the idea is to shared what has been done, talk about future plans and overall have a discussion with the members of the community on all the interested parties from the KDE Frameworks Maui makes use of.
16:00	Kirigami	Using kirigami by apps, tutorial on the code, design session, reporting of problems kirigami users are having.
17:00	KDE Applications on Android	There's been big progress this year getting nightly builds of KDE Applications and getting a container that can fetch dependencies and produce binaries without much hassle. We'll see how this is done and what can we do to make sure it has the most impact.

Room 127 (37 people) - 14th August

127
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	Flatpak and Snap BoF	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-flatpak-snap-bof Hosts: Jan Grulich / Aleix Pol
11:30	Flatpak and Snap BoF	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-flatpak-snap-bof Hosts: Jan Grulich / Aleix Pol
12:30	Lunch
14:00	KDE PIM	[email protected]
15:00	KDE PIM	[email protected]
16:00	KDE PIM	[email protected]
17:00