Re: What's going on ?

Le vendredi 9 Avril 2004 06:28, Pupeno a écrit :
> Hello people at [email protected],

Hello Pupeno, =)

> What's going on here ?

Lot of thing recently... I'll try to present some of them below...

> I mean, after being frustrated by several distributions that tried to be
> desktop distributions I came here with the hope to find 'some answers' here
> and a place to put my development efforts.

It's one of my motivations too...

> Reading some posts in the archive I see that you are developing a distro
> named Kalyxo, right ? Debian based of course... what are the goals ?

I'm tempted to say "right", but I don't know if this effort can be only 
considered as a distro development... For example, Alexander Neundorf as 
started a sub project in freedesktop.org to centralize KDE integrative 
efforts.

I like to see two goal in our work :
- the KDE integrative effort, trying to integrate foreign (non KDE based) 
application the best possible in a KDE desktop, this is of course very distro 
agnostic
- the Debian centric effort, trying to have a debian based desktop where KDE 
has the central place... it of course benefits of the KDE integrative 
effort...

> I see there's not much on the web, what's done ? what is it needed ?

The web space is one of the area still opened... We have a draft made by 
Alejandro Exojo, but maybe he would be glad to have some help.
I hope to see a lot of things happen in this area... it's important if we want 
people to know that work is going on!

There's a packaging effort going that I tried to present in a previous mail... 
some potential packages are still orphans.

There's of course the integrative effort... IIRC Alexander Neundorf is alone 
on this one.
(Except on fuse_kio where I'd be glad to contribute again... If I find 
something useful to do!)

Some admin oriented tools are developed (kapture, guidance, knetworkconf...)

I'm surely missing some areas... Feel free to complete this list!

> are you open to new ideas (I have lot of them!!!!) ?

Of course we are open to new ideas.

Regards.
-- 
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Ne font reculer l'ignorance."