Akademy/2014/AllBoF

BoF sessions on Monday, September 8 2014

All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

Possible BoF Wrap-up
Outside the main entrance of Technicka 10, grassy slope by the reflecting pool, on the right as you exit the building - 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.

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Room 1 - 8 September

Room 1	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
10:00	Workshop: From QtWidgets Legacy to QtQuick and beyond	Kevin Ottens
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Workshop: Integrating native features with your Qt mobile app	Kai Uwe Broulik
15:00
16:00	Workshop: Profiling 101	Milian Wolff
17:00	Workshop: Put your code to the test!	Shantanu Tushar

Room 2 - 8 September

Room 2	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
10:00	Workshop: Creating interface mockups and textures with KDE software	Timothée Giet
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Workshop: Visual Design and QML	Andrew Lake
15:00
16:00	Workshop: Effective Speech Recognition in Your Application	Peter Grasch
17:00	Workshop: Improving the KDE <-> Qt community ties	Tero Kojo

Room 3 - 8 September

Room 3	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Kexi - Towards leading point&click application development environment for individuals, education, organizations and businesses.	Interested? You're welcome! You'll hear what happened within the past 10 years, share opinions, learn about possible areas of contribution (coding, testing, documentation, software design, UX design, promo) and perhaps business too. Kexi is a feature-packed software. It's the only FOSS and Qt-friendly offering table, query and business reports designers. It contains a kind of Qt Designer for data-aware forms. Javascript-based scripting, web/cloud services are coming! -- Jarosław Staniek (staniek @ kde.org, maintainer)
10:30	Application Scripting	Sharing experiences of using script languages like JavaScript or Python to write extensions for Qt/KDE applications. Discussion of possibilities for shared scripting framework, QtScript vs QJSEngine, etc
11:30	Application Scripting
12:30	Lunch
14:00	FOSS in Taiwan -- The NTPC project, and the KDE's problem we see here.	This is about promoting, not technique session. NTPC project is an important milestone of promoting FOSS in Taiwan's school. I'll describe the whole project, and its status now. Also, during this project, what KDE's problems we saw? -- Franklin Weng <franklin at goodhorse dot idv dot tw>, the coordinator of KDE zh_TW l10n team.
15:00	Plasma
16:00	Plasma
17:00	Plasma

Room 4 - 8 September

Room 4	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	The Ten Commandments of Technical Writing	A talk by Mikey Ariel, senior technical writer at Red Hat. The talk covers the basic principles of technical writing within the context of open source projects.
11:30	The Ten Commandments of KDE Documentation	Moderated discussion where we examine the KDE doc base, find the main pain points, and create a prioritized list of action items for improving the documentation. notes
12:30	Lunch
14:00 - 1700	Documentation hackfest	Come and hack at the KDE documentation! Based on what we covered in the morning sessions, let's get started on those action items while the information (and enthusiasm) are fresh in our minds. All are welcome, even if you missed the morning sessions!
17:00	KDE Austria BoF	Probably never before Akademy was closer to Vienna, the heart of Austria. It's time for all Austrians, Neighbours and people who have ideas how to strengthen/enlarge the local community to come together and discuss ideas.

Room 5 - 8 September

Room 5	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30 - 11:30	User Interface Design Room	You would like some interaction and/or visual design input for your project? KDE's visual designers and usability experts are here to help you! (Host: Thomas Pfeiffer)
11:30 - 12:30	Follow up on "A quick guide how you can save the world or why it is impossible to do usability"	Let's disuss ideas and open questions arising from my talk on Sunday 11:40 and let's see if we can actually start to save the world. (Host: Björn Balazs)
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Packagers bof	Place for packagers to shake hands and hug eachother - and whine about the evil upstreamers. (Host: Sune)
15:00 - 17:00	Human-Centered Design for the KDE HIG	We see the KDE Human Interface Guidelines as a product, so we use human-centered design to optimize the HIG for its users, which are KDE developers as well as designers. So come to this BoF to help us find out what you need! (Host: Thomas Pfeiffer)
17:00	User Interface Design Room	See above

BoF sessions on Tuesday, September 9 2014

All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

BoF Wrap-up
Ground Floor Lobby; 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.

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Room 1 - 9 September

Room 1	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
10:00 - 12:30	Plasma Media Center	Discussion about current features PMC have and upcoming features for next release. Next PMC release will be a major release (2.0), so good time to provide any kind of feedback/ideas which can be added into it. There will be also discussion on overall vision of PMC. --- Sinny Kumari ([email protected])
12:30	Lunch
14:00	KDE Frameworks	Details here
15:00	KDE Frameworks
16:00	KDE Frameworks
17:00	KDE Frameworks

Room 2 - 9 September

Room 2	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30	Inqlude	Follow up discussion on Everything Qt. How do we make best use of Inqlude as Qt library archive? How do we benefit within KDE? How do we use it to popularize Frameworks to the Qt community? What is needed on a technical level? Host: Cornelius Schumacher
11:30	Solid	You can find some info here, feel free to add your tasks, requests or whatever you want.
12:30	Lunch
14:00 - 17:00	Solid	You can find some info here, feel free to add your tasks, requests or whatever you want.

Room 3 - 9 September

Room 3	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30 - 11:30	Network KCM discussion	You would like some interaction and/or visual design input for your project? KDE's visual designers and usability experts are here to help you! (Host: Thomas Pfeiffer)
11:30 - 12:30	The future of Activities	How can Activities be (more) useful? Hosts: Björn + Ivan
12:30	Lunch
14:00 - 16:00	User Interface Design Room	(See above) at 15:00 discussing Artikulate's design
16:00 - 18:00	"Workspace-wide services on non-file objects"	Guest: Friedrich

Room 4 - 9 September

Room 4	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30 - 12:30	KDE PIM BoF	Host: Daniel Vrátil (does not mean he's in charge of the BoF :-)) Notes
12:30	Lunch
14:00	KDE Edu use in India	The FOSS community in Hyderabad, India (with help from ThoughtWorks) have started to use KDE Edu apps for teaching children in govt run schools. We have made some progress and also have plans on adding new applications. This BoF will help to plan how to use KDE Edu better and integrating the new applications. Please join us if you work with any KDE Edu application. (Rishab Arora, Shantanu Tushar)
15:00
16:00	KDE India Future Plans	From Future event plans to setting up Legal identity in India.
17:00	Localization BoF	Albert Astals Cid

Room 5 - 9 September

Room 5	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00

BoF sessions on Wednesday, September 10 2014

All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

Possible BoF Wrap-up
Room ??; 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.

BoF rooms will close at 12:30

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Room 1 - 10 September

Room 1	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Accessibility	Frederik: learn how to test apps with screen readers, get involved (fixing the KCM for example). Ask any question.
10:30	Accessibility
11:30
12:30	Lunch

Room 2 - 10 September

Room 2	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Release Team BoF	Albert Astals Cid - Follow-up discussion after https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2014/public/events/142
10:30	The Case For Spyware BoF	Albert Astals Cid - Follow-up discussion after https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2014/public/events/161
11:30	The KDE Applications website[s]	Andreas Cord-Landwehr - Generating KDE Applications website[s] from appdata files discussion
12:30	Lunch

Room 3 - 10 September

Room 3	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30 - 12:30	User Interface Design Room	You would like some interaction and/or visual design input for your project? KDE's visual designers and usability experts are here to help you! (Host: Thomas Pfeiffer)
12:30	Lunch

Room 4 - 10 September

Room 4	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch

Room 5 - 10 September

Room 5	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch

BoF sessions on Thursday, September 11 2014

All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

Possible BoF Wrap-up
Room ??; 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.

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Room 1 - 11 September

Room 1	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Language Learning File Format	Andreas Cord-Landwehr, Inge Wallin
10:30	Language Learning File Format	Andreas Cord-Landwehr, Inge Wallin
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00	KDevelop	Milian Wolff
15:00
16:00
17:00

Room 2 - 11 September

Room 2	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	SLC - internals and UI (wayland, kpeople, ...)	Ivan and the rest of Plasma team
10:30	SLC - contd.	Ivan and the rest of Plasma team
11:30	KDE France	Discussion about the France KDE community next main actions, Akademy-Fr, http://fr.kde.org, brainstorming... Host: Kévin Ottens (ervin)
12:30	Lunch
14:00	"Quality is in the eye of the beholder" BoF post discussion	Albert Astals Cid - Discussion post https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2014/public/events/96
15:00	Okular BoF	Albert Astals Cid
16:00	Fundraiser Team BoF	Albert Astals Cid
17:00

Room 3 - 11 September

Room 3	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30 - 10:30
10:30 - 12:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00 - 18:00

Room 4 - 11 September

Room 4	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30	KDE Windows	Patrick / If you have any questions regarding KDE on Windows just join the BOF.
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00

Room 5 - 11 September

Room 5	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30	Kubuntu
10:30	Kubuntu	https://notes.kde.org/p/kubuntu-akademy
11:30	Kubuntu
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Kubuntu
15:00	Kubuntu
16:00	Kubuntu
17:00	Kubuntu

BoF sessions on Friday, September 12 2014

All rooms have chalkboards and projectors.
Please put your name and email address in the Host/Notes section. There is no length limitation; text will wrap.

Possible BoF Wrap-up
Room ??; 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.

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Room 1 - 12 September

Room 1	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00

Room 2 - 12 September

Room 2	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00

Room 3 - 12 September

Room 3	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00

Room 4 - 12 September

Room 4	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
13:00
14:00
15:00

Room 5 - 12 September

Room 5	seats 20
Time	Subject	Host/Notes
9:30
10:30
11:30
12:30	Lunch
14:00
15:00