[Development] [Marketing] Qt 5 alpha approaching

[gareth.stockwell at accenture.com]

I recently published a post on Qt Labs Blog about using shader effects to transform video / viewfinder content in QML.
http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2012/02/29/pimp-my-video-shader-effects-and-multimedia/

Strictly speaking, this isn't Qt5-specific: there is a version of the demo app which runs on Qt4 (using the Qt.labs.shaders plugin).  But with the scene graph, the rendering path is optimised (decoder -> texture -> shader -> framebuffer), which should give better performance.

And even if I say so myself, the demo does tick the cool box :)


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From: development-bounces+gareth.stockwell=accenture.com at qt-project.org [development-bounces+gareth.stockwell=accenture.com at qt-project.org] on behalf of quim.gil at nokia.com [quim.gil at nokia.com]
Sent: 07 March 2012 17:57
To: development at qt-project.org
Subject: [Development] FW: [Marketing] Qt 5 alpha approaching

Forwarding to the [Development] list since all the Qt 5 maintainers are here. Please check the alpha release marketing proposal and provide the info & pointers related to your module. Thank you!


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From: Quim Gil [quim.gil at nokia.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:44 AM
To: marketing at qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Marketing] Qt 5 alpha approaching

Thanks Lars, can we aim for March 20 (Tuesday) as a working release
date? You can check with maintainers and I can check with marketing dudes.

On 03/06/2012 06:54 AM, ext lars.knoll at nokia.com wrote:
> In addition to that we'll need to start putting together some release
> notes, and our marketing folks should start thinking about how to best
> announce things to the world.

Ok, I have started with http://wiki.qt-project.org/Qt_5 . I haven't been
involved in any Qt release previously - bare with me and help improving
the plans.

(I wasn't sure about what wiki to use, if you prefer
http://qt-project.org/wiki/ we can use that).

Beef we need from the maintainers:

- What modules are involved in the release. Essentials and which add-ons
(if any)?

- What are the highlights of each module.

- What extra materials are availale: docs, code examples, screenshots,
videos...

- What areas in their module welcome more attention from testers,
feedback, etc.


Then we need to agree on the Qt 5 highlights. And how we promote them
best in this Alpha release.


All corners of the Qt Project are encouraged to find and contribute some
spice to the release day. Can the MediaHub showcase some gerat visual
features in an integrated way? Is someone making the most of the new QPA
with some port? Is there some HTML5 beauty to show thanks to the new
QtWebKit2? Any simple QtQuick 3D code generating amazing results?
Anything running on a Raspberry Pi?

You see where I'm coming from. If you are working on something cool and
you can achieve an alignment with the Alpha release let us know here
sooner than later.

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Quim
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