GNOME and KDE Join Forces To Co-Host Linux App Summit

'GNOME and KDE are co-hosting this year's Linux App Summit (LAS) in
Barcelona from November 12th to 15th.

An anonymous reader shared the big announcement:

LAS is the first collaborative event co-hosted by the two
organizations since the Desktop Summit in 2009. Both organizations are
eager to bring their communities together in building an application
ecosystem that transcends individual distros and broadens the market
for everyone involved.

KDE and GNOME will no longer be taking a passive role in the free
desktop sector. With the joint influence of the two desktop projects,
LAS will shepherd the growth of the FOSS desktop by encouraging the
creation of quality applications, seeking opportunities for
compensation for FOSS developers, and fostering a vibrant market for
the Linux operating system.

* "I am excited to see GNOME and KDE working together on LAS, and I
believe that the event will help lay down strong foundations for
collaborative cross-project development that would benefit Linux users
across all distributions and on any compatible device." -- Christel
Dahlskjaer, Private Internet Access and freenode Project Lead.

* "Together with GNOME, counting with the collaboration of many
distributions and application developers, we'll have the opportunity
to work side by side, share our perspectives and offer the platform
that the next generation of solutions will be built on." -- Aleix Pol
Gonzalez, KDE e.V Vice-President says about the inaugural effort about
LAS.

* "By partnering with KDE we show the desire to build the kind of
application ecosystem that demonstrates that Open Source and Free
Software are important; the technology and organization we build to
achieve this is valuable and necessary." -- GNOME executive director,
Neil McGovern

* "The desktop wars is not really a thing any more. It makes more
sense to work together and pool resources." -- Paul Brown, a KDE
Communications Specialist (quoted by ZDNet)

ZDNet called the collaboration "a major step forward," giving their
story the headline "GNOME and KDE work together on the Linux desktop."
But the Twitter feed for the KDE community quickly clarified that KDE
"is working with GNOME to create a common, fair, sustainable and open
app ecosystem, not a desktop."

"The GNOME and KDE communities want to provide users with free and
open applications that will respect their privacy and rights. That is
what Linux App Summit is about."'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/08/03/0240209

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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