Re: some text about the solid sprint and previous meetings

Thanks guys. We can put together an article from this no problem.

Who wants to be author?

Cheers,
Stu

On Sunday 03 October 2010 19:25:47 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Sunday, October 03, 2010 12:37:30 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> > On Friday 01 October 2010 22:26:43 Agustín Benito Bethencourt (Toscalix)
> > 
> > > 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 :-)
> 
> Day one should maybe also mention Agustin:
> 
> Agustin Benito Bethencourt took care of commmunication tasks during the
> sprint, freeing up time of other developers to fully concentrate on code,
> architecture and design.
> 
> ====
> 
> Day two of the sprint nominally began when the Solid hackers returned from
> dinner in down-town Madrid. Even late at night, almost everybody was still
> active until the early morning hours, and great things were achieved. Dario
> Freddi and Sebastian Kügler got large parts of the re-newed powerdevil core
> and configuration working, while Lamarque Souza made strides towards
> support for setting up mobile broadband connections using the network
> management framework in Solid. Kevin "ervin" Ottens pushed the new backend
> for Storage devices based on udisks towards completion, while Alex Fiestas
> restructured bugreports for the new BlueDevil framework to make user
> support easier. Rafael "ereslibre" Fernández López took care of the new
> Udev backend, a provider of information for generic types of devices. Will
> Stephenson put his muscle into researching how bluetooth and networking
> interact, and provided invaluable information for implementing tethering
> (connecting your laptop through your phone to the Internet) in KDE's
> Plasma components, based on Network Manager and BlueDevil. Most people
> took a couple of hours off in the early Sunday morning to catch some badly
> needed sleep, though apparently not everybody decided that this would be
> time well spent.
> 
> At the end of the sprint, the KDE Solid team looks back at a huge pile of
> work done. Some Solid components have moved to a more flexible, scalable,
> usable and energy-friendly architecture, while others have received love
> in usability, stability and feature-completeness. Janitor-like tasks like
> deprecating HAL in KDE software have been moved forward, and are expected
> to be completed with the next feature release of the KDE software in
> January, 4.6.0.
> The sprint was a great success, thanks to its sponsors <a
> href="http://www.ufocoders.es">UFOCoders</a> and thhe <a
> href="http://ev.kde.org">KDE e.V.</a>, who have donated another invaluable
> contribution to the KDE community and its millions of users.
> 
> ===
> 
> The text might not be perfect, as I'm quite sleep-deprived, but hopefully
> serves as a good base to bring it to Dot-quality.
> 
> I'll blog some photos later tonight, keep an eye on the Planet.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
 
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