Re: some text about the solid sprint and previous meetings

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

Solid Sprint story started with just the text below.

Carl


>
> 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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