Akademy/2018/AllBoF

All BoF Sessions

Please note: This page is for viewing the schedule only, in order to add a new BoF you should go to the wiki page of the day you'd like the session to take place: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

BoF sessions on Monday, August 13th 2018

All rooms are on the third floor (except 125, second floor) of Neues EI and have either a blackboard or a whiteboard.

Floor plans:

• 3rd floor
• 2nd floor

If you need any other equipment, please send an email to [email protected].
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

BoF Wrap-up at 18:30
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project. Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.

KDE eV AGM Following on from the reports during the weekend the private part of the KDE eV AGM, for eV members only, will be held during the extended lunch break in EI7 (talk room 1)

The Akademy team might reassign BoFs based on operational needs

Room 121 (37 people, priority for workshops) - 13th August

121
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	Conan Workshop	Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN - Discuss how is best to use Conan in KDE - https://phabricator.kde.org/T8484
11:30	Conan Workshop	Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN - Add Conan packages to KDE frameworks - https://phabricator.kde.org/T8484
12:30	Lunch
15:30
16:30
17:30	KDE in automotive (embedded), the crazy guys.	Evaluate this past year activities and plan the next 6 months. Notes

Room 122 (25 people) - 13th August

122
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Plasma BoF	Plasma team (topics TBD)
10:30	Plasma Mobile BoF	Plasma team
11:30	Plasma + Wayland.	TODOs. Remote Desktop, virtual desktops, whatever else
12:30	Lunch
15:30	Plasma - Long term architecture plans	We have a bunch of floating ideas, we should get stuff written down - Hosted by David Edmundson
16:30	HIG - Report status and ongoing work	Give an update about the HIG after porting it to rst / sphinx. Discuss how to improve, contribute, ... - Hosted by Fabian Riethmayer
17:30

Room 125 (2nd floor, 20 people) - 13th August

125
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Promo BoF	Ivana & Paul - Notes
10:30	Promo BoF	Ivana & Paul - Notes
11:30	Promo BoF	Ivana & Paul - Notes
12:30	Lunch
15:30	VVAVE Project	UI and UX discussion around VVAVE features and the VVAVE Stream platform for music information sharing. Ideas, plans and discussions.
16:30	KDE Sysadmin BoF	BoF/Minisprint for KDE Sysadmin team
17:30	Phabricator BoF	Host: Bhushan Shah, Discussion around current phabricator workflows and future improvements

Room 127 (37 people) - 13th August

127
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	Discussing Community Data Analytics (metrics and code sharing for producing the metrics)	ervin
11:30	KDE's Goals - retro and input for what's next	Lydia ([email protected])
12:30	Lunch
15:30	KDE Distro BoF	Host: Kevin Kofler Lightning talk session introducing different GNU/Linux distributions or distribution remixes focusing on Plasma and other KDE/Qt software Open discussion round about distribution-related topics details (mailing list login required)
16:30	KDE Distro BoF (cont.)
17:30	KDE Distro BoF (cont.)

BoF sessions on Tuesday, August 14th 2018

All rooms are on the third floor (except 125, second floor) of Neues EI and have either a blackboard or a whiteboard.

Floor plans:

• 3rd floor
• 2nd floor

If you need any other equipment, please send an email to [email protected].
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

BoF Wrap-up at 18:00
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project. Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.

The Akademy team might reasign BoFs based on operational needs

Room 121 (37 people, priority for workshops) - 14th August

121
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	KDE India	We'll spend some time discussing how to sustain and scale our growing KDE India community and plan for the next edition of conf.kde.in. The BoF is open to all community members interested in KDE India activities. Host: Devaja Shah, Bhushan Shah
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Streamlined Onboarding	General discussion on issues about this goal. Plan how to move forward with the "Making it easy to set up a development environment for KDE software" objective and discuss about the upcoming related sprint. Host: Neofytos Kolokotronis
15:00	KDE in Americas	We'll make a brief recap about some actions we did in the past (Camp KDE, KDE League, Akademy-BR), the ones we've been pushing lately (LaKademy, QtCon Brazil, some conferences in EUA) and what we can do to better articulate joint actions for KDE in Americas. Hosts:Sandro/Aracele/Filipe
16:00
17:00

Room 122 (25 people) - 14th August

122
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	VDG Current State	Andy Betts (Anditosan) - Revision of work to date and new work coming up.
11:30	VDG Goals	Andy Betts (Anditosan) General session to define goals for the future. Community input.
12:30	Lunch
14:00	KDE neon	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/kde-neon-bof-2018 - exact schedule TBD - [email protected]
15:00	KDE neon	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/kde-neon-bof-2018 - exact schedule TBD - [email protected]
16:00	KDE neon	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/kde-neon-bof-2018 - exact schedule TBD - [email protected]
17:00	GPG Key Signing	Akademy/2018/GPGKeys - [email protected]

Room 125 (2nd floor, 20 people) - 14th August

125
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	KDE and Qt BOF	Session for members of the KDE community who are interested in KDE’s collaboration with Qt – We will talk about the KDE Free Qt Foundation (legal setup; history and future; perspectives: What is important for the KDE community going forward?) Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer <[email protected]>
10:30	Config Workshop (1)	Topics: Collaboration with https://www.libelektra.org; Config Migrations, kconf_update; See Akademy/2018/Config_Workshop; Host: Markus Raab <[email protected]>
11:30	Config Workshop (2)	Topics: Collaboration with https://www.libelektra.org; KConfig XT (code generation), caching of configuration files; See Akademy/2018/Config_Workshop; Host: Markus Raab <[email protected]>
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Config Workshop (3)	Topics: Collaboration with https://www.libelektra.org; Configuration Management, Configuration Specification (Schemas), Kiosk Mode; See Akademy/2018/Config_Workshop; Host: Markus Raab <[email protected]>
15:00	The Maui Project	The Maui project aims for a cohesive shell and set of apps tightly integrated that work on mobile and desktop devices, such as Android, Plasma Mobile and GNU Linux distributions. Maui makes use of KDE technologies. With this session the idea is to shared what has been done, talk about future plans and overall have a discussion with the members of the community on all the interested parties from the KDE Frameworks Maui makes use of.
16:00	Kirigami	Using kirigami by apps, tutorial on the code, design session, reporting of problems kirigami users are having.
17:00	KDE Applications on Android	There's been big progress this year getting nightly builds of KDE Applications and getting a container that can fetch dependencies and produce binaries without much hassle. We'll see how this is done and what can we do to make sure it has the most impact.

Room 127 (37 people) - 14th August

127
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	Flatpak and Snap BoF	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-flatpak-snap-bof Hosts: Jan Grulich / Aleix Pol
11:30	Flatpak and Snap BoF	Topics: https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-flatpak-snap-bof Hosts: Jan Grulich / Aleix Pol
12:30	Lunch
14:00	KDE PIM BoF	Main topics: upstreaming to Frameworks, promo/marketing of Kontact, improving public perception, attracting users and contributors, konquering the world. Full agenda: https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-2018-pim Host: Dan Vrátil
15:00	KDE PIM BoF	Main topics: upstreaming to Frameworks, promo/marketing of Kontact, improving public perception, attracting users and contributors, konquering the world. Full agenda: https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-2018-pim Host: Dan Vrátil
16:00	KDE PIM BoF	Main topics: upstreaming to Frameworks, promo/marketing of Kontact, improving public perception, attracting users and contributors, konquering the world. Full agenda: https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-2018-pim Host: Dan Vrátil
17:00

BoF sessions on Wednesday, August 15th 2018

All rooms are on the third floor (except 125, second floor) of Neues EI and have either a blackboard or a whiteboard.

Floor plans:

• 3rd floor
• 2nd floor

If you need any other equipment, please send an email to [email protected].
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

BoF Wrap-up Thursday at 18:00
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project. Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.

The Akademy team might reasign BoFs based on operational needs

Room 121 (37 people, priority for workshops) - 15th August

121
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Neon CI infrastructure tooling training	[email protected]
10:30	GSoC and SoK BoF	Any person that is interested in knowing about KDE progress in these programs is invited. The main idea will be to interact between ourselves and let the students share experiences about their projects.
11:30	OpenQA testing	Bhushan Shah and Harald Sitter
12:30	Lunch and Daytrip

Room 122 (25 people) - 15th August

122
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	Wayland Surgery - Test your apps on wayland and fix any issues	David Edmundson
11:30	Wayland Surgery - Test your apps on wayland and fix any issues	David Edmundson
12:30	Lunch and Daytrip

Room 125 (2nd floor, 20 people) - 15th August

125
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Documentation	Claus Christensen. Discuss how we can improve our documentation and create an active team to care about this. Notes: https://userbase.kde.org/User:Valoriez
10:30	Atelier	Lays Rodrigues and Tomaz Canabrava, Discuss improvements, Web Layer and QML version for Embedded devices. And of course, Hacking
11:30	Atelier	Lays Rodrigues and Tomaz Canabrava, Discuss improvements, Web Layer and QML version for Embedded devices. And of course, Hacking
12:30	Lunch and Daytrip

Room 127 (37 people) - 15th August

127
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Akademy Tools BoF	Akademy Team Initial tasks: https://phabricator.kde.org/T9312 https://phabricator.kde.org/T9313
10:30	Akademy Tools BoF	Akademy Team
11:30
12:30	Lunch and Daytrip

BoF sessions on Thursday, August 16th 2018

All rooms are on the third floor (except 125, second floor) of Neues EI and have either a blackboard or a whiteboard.

Floor plans:

• 3rd floor
• 2nd floor

If you need any other equipment, please send an email to [email protected].
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

BoF Wrap-up at 18:00
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project. Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.

The Akademy team might reasign BoFs based on operational needs

Room 121 (37 people, priority for workshops) - 16th August

121
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Training "Nonviolent Communication"
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Training "Nonviolent Communication" cont

Room 122 (25 people) - 16th August

122
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30	KDevelop BoF	Future development, current issues, feedback. If you use KDevelop, we're also interested in your thoughts! Interested new contributors are also very welcome. Host: Sven Brauch <mail at svenbrauch.de>
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00
16:00	Mycroft BoF	Session on writing skills for Mycroft AI, Integrating your KDE Application with voice assistance technology, Exploring use-cases for further integration with the multiple Plasma platforms and existing KDE Applications. Host: Aditya Mehra <[email protected]>
17:00

Room 125 (2nd floor, 20 people) - 16th August

125
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	User sessions with logind	Max Harmathy – introduction and discussion on the backgounds of Bug 389144 (libkworkspace: logind instantly kills all user sessions on shutdown)
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00	User sessions with logind	Max Harmathy
15:00	Improving the "build from source" experience	Host: Michael Pyne <[email protected]>. Building KDE-based software from source is essential for developers, interested power users, and testers. It can potentially even impact our ability to attract and retain contributors. kdesrc-build has long been used for this function, but is this still the best experience for our users in 2018? Would different methods (e.g. OBS, KDE Neon, Docker containers) be better for different audiences? What are the most important 3-5 improvements to make? How can we streamline the initial setup process here to be seamless?
16:00
17:00

Room 127 (37 people) - 16th August

127
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Training "Online Fundraising and Campaigning"
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Training "Online Fundraising and Campaigning" cont

BoF sessions on Friday, August 17th 2018

All rooms are on the third floor (except 125, second floor) of Neues EI and have either a blackboard or a whiteboard.

Floor plans:

• 3rd floor
• 2nd floor

If you need any other equipment, please send an email to [email protected]. Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

BoF Wrap-up at 17:00
Please join the BoF wrap-up session this evening. Another opportunity for communication. Share outcomes and plans, cross-pollinate, attract attention to your project. Please select someone from your BoF to give a summary—topic, what was discussed and decided, what's next, resources desired.

The Akademy team might reasign BoFs based on operational needs

Room 121 (37 people, priority for workshops) - 17th August

121
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Training Documentation Writing
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00	Teardown and Closing BBQ

Room 122 (25 people) - 17th August

122
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	Informal workshop / cursory introduction on functional programming and logic using Haskell and Isabelle/HOL	Prerequisites: some interest and / or pre-existing knowledge in functional programming and / or formal methods; the covered topics are driven by that ;-). The required tools should be installed on your machine: a Haskell environment (GHC https://www.haskell.org/ghc/ is part of many Linux distribution) and Isabelle/HOL (https://isabelle.in.tum.de/ – Isabelle2018 being freshly released).
11:30	Informal workshop / cursory introduction on functional programming and logic using Haskell and Isabelle/HOL
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00	Teardown and Closing BBQ

Room 125 (2nd floor, 20 people) - 17th August

125
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00	Teardown and Closing BBQ

Room 127 (37 people) - 17th August

127
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00	Teardown and Closing BBQ