Re: some text about the solid sprint and previous meetings

Al 07/10/10 18:51, En/na Carl Symons ha escrit:
> 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

I'm a bit confused, is somebody writing the history or going to? if not
I can try to help.
 
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