Re: KDE at Linux Foundation's ELC-EU

Hi,

this is a very interesting event to promote KDE among a different audience.
ELC EU remains being very technical centric. It is co-hosted with OSS
Europe which increases the scale and the commercial approach of the event.

I would like to see KDE presenting talks related with technical topics on
the mobile space/embedded space. Think about topics interesting for kernel,
toolchain or drivers people, to SoCs, automotive companies, electronic
consumers companies, device manufactures, etc.

We can also present our approach to freedom in the mobile space to the OSS
Europe conference.

I have participated at ELC and ELC EU several times, having talks. I can
help with the abstract.

In summary, ELC EU is a technical event. They want technical talks.

Agustin Benito (toscalix)
KDE eV member
Profile: http://es.linkedin.com/in/toscalix

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 6:10 PM, Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Recent experiences with other companies and communities have proven to us
> that, beyond our bubble, and even within the realm of the Free Software
> community, people who are not KDE community members know very little about
> the
> technologies driving Plasma, Plasma Mobile, and KDE apps.
>
> As part of our aim to reach larger audiences, in this case of potential
> contributors, developers, and companies, we have been talking to the Linux
> Foundation. We want them to help with some of our future events and we
> want
> our contributors to participate in some of theirs.
>
> Regarding the former, we are currently talking about sponsorships for
> future
> editions of Akademy (not this year's unfortunately) and working on trying
> and
> attract the attention from Linux Foundation member companies, with the aim
> of
> gaining some more enterprise support.
>
> Regarding the latter, our first step has been to become the community
> partner
> for ELC Europe
>
> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/elc-openiot-europe-2018/
> sponsors/
>
> We hope to get exposure from this and we are hoping to get a booth out of
> it
> too (still working on this). At ELC-EU we want to show off stuff like
> Plasma
> Mobile and Qt Automotive stuff and any other embedded stuff we can fit in
> there to companies and developers that attend this event.
>
> We (KDE and LF) have agreed that it would be beneficial to help them
> promote
> the event within our community. They want us to help them attract more of
> our
> community to the event (as attendees and especially as speakers) and we
> want
> more companies to take notice of our technologies and more developers to
> join
> us. Securing talking spots at the event for KDE-related technology could
> help
> with both things.
>
> They want us to push this link:
>
> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/speak-at-elc-openiot-
> summit-eu-proposals-due-by-sunday-july-1/
>
> And have suggested the following posts:
>
> "Share your expertise and speak at ELC + OpenIoT Summit Europe taking
> place
> October 22 - 24, 2018 in Edinburgh. Proposals due July 1."
>
> "View the full list of suggested topics for ELC + OpenIoT Summit Europe
> and
> submit your proposal now!"
>
> "ELC + OpenIoT is the place to collaborate and share your expertise with
> people building applications on embedded Linux. Submit your proposal by
> July
> 1!"
>
> I think we should adapt it a bit to our community, even expand it to
> explain
> the advantages for projects to submit ideas for talks.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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