Re: some text about the solid sprint and previous meetings

On Friday 01 October 2010 22:26:43 Agustín Benito Bethencourt (Toscalix) 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've never written a dot story. 

I think maybe you just did :-)

> I'm not trying to. I just send you these
> notes about the solid sprint and the previous representative meetings just
> in case somebody can write one.

Could you/another attendee add a few notes about day two? (and the other days 
if it lasted more than two). If so then I think this will just need a little 
bit of editing and will be ready for the Dot.

> My english is not too good but I think you will understand what has
> happened

It's really not bad at all :-)

Cheers,
Stu

> 
> -----
> Sebastian Kügler, Release Manager and KDE e.V. Board of Directors member,
> is visiting Spain to take part on the Solid Sprint, host by UFOCoders (a
> local sponsor) in Madrid during this weekend. Before the beginning of the
> Solid Sprint Sebastian, along with Rafael Fernandez, KDE Spain
> VicePresident and some ASOLIF (The federation of free software SME
> associations) representatives, met some local representatives from Madrid
> City Council, and the Central Goverment (IT Department) to introduce KDE
> and KDE Spain.
> 
> During both conversations, spanish local representatives showed interest in
> legal, economic and management aspects related with free software
> communities in general and KDE in particular. Sebastian Kügler explained
> the basic keys that are making KDE such a successful project and what are
> the major goals to achive during the following months. Rafael explained
> how is the relation between KDE Spain and the global KDE community and the
> specific plans to improve the local community. As a result of these
> conversations, KDE Spain will be presenting KDE 4 next week on SIMO
> Networks, the most relevant IT event that takes place in Madrid, along
> with other preliminary actions in order to make KDE more popular in Spain.
> 
> Since ASOLIF actively supported the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit event,
> Sebastian Kügler and Pablo Gómez, ASOLIF President, talked for a few
> minutes about the II Desktop Summit that  will take place in Berlin in
> August 2011. Sebastian explained the expectations KDE have on this event
> and what is the current state of the organization.
> 
> After these meetings, the KDE developers involved in the Solid Team had
> lunch together before the begin of Solid Sprint.
> 
> Solid Sprint Day 1
> 
> The first day of the Solid Sprint could be divided in two different parts.
> During the first part, some relevant disscussions took place in order to
> coordinate efforts and knowing the state of the art of the different Solid
> components, going through the major issues that will be accomplished in
> the following months. During the second part of the session a lot of
> hacking on the major tasks decided in previous discussions took place. As
> it usually happens in KDE Sprints, the hacking session finished late at
> night.
> 
> It is getting clear that Solid is becomming a well defined team within KDE
> and everybody is exited about the idea of atracting more developers
> interested in hardware support to the desktop, mobile devices, netbooks,
> media center, etc. Tomorrow a log hacking day is expected so exciting news
> are comming. ----
 
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