Re: some text about the solid sprint and previous meetings

On Wednesday 06 October 2010 20:26:01 Agustín Benito Bethencourt (Toscalix) 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm overloaded these days but Sebas is right. I have almost finished day1
> I'll send it tomorrow or the day after. Sorry for the delay. Ididn't
> forget, it's that I haven't being able.

With what you and Sebas sent we have the basis of an article that I sent to 
dot-editors. It needs some tidying up but we can do that. However, don't 
expect publication until next week :-)

Below is the text so far (it is quite messy, partiuclarly the start which is 
more or less in note form and will need rewriting - we still have plenty to 
do)

Of course, if you have some things to add just let us know

Cheers,
Stu

PS - I just published the interview with Jesús

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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. 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.

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.

Day 2

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. Would be nice to 
have www.interdominios.com link, since they've
sponsored the event together with us (ufocoders) and the event took
place in they building with they support, so I think is fair :p
 
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