[Marketing] Qt at Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland

[Romain Pokrzywka]

On Wednesday, April 11, 2012 07:11:22 PM adam.weinrich at nokia.com wrote:
> On quarta-feira, 11 de abril de 2012 09.43.00
> 
> >> If the schedule still permits, I can offer to do a technical talk or a
> >> small  training session, like we do at the dev days. Is it something
> >> you're coordinating, Adam?
> 
> I have taken on the 'coordinating' role for Qt activities for our Qt
> community although theres no obligation to go through me.   Im hoping
> others from the Ubuntu side have Qt sessions.
> Thiago wrote:
> >UDS usually doesn't have "talks". They have planning sessions where
> >discussions happen on what to do in the next one or two iterations of
> >Ubuntu. It's the model we based on for the Qt Contributor Summit.
> 
> True but there is some wiggle room if the topic is aligned with enough
> Ubuntu interests. Their community has much broader interest areas and much
> larger audience than Qt Contributors Summit.   Most sessions are breakout
> rooms with usually a group of people discussing a topic with an interactive
> audience of 15-50 and IRC questions too.  At past UDS we've  "trainings" in
> the form of live codings focused on an interest group (such as QML for
> designers) and demos that are discussions of the technology involved and
> how Ubuntu do something similarly. There is an expectation of some action
> items resulting from the event but this might just be follow up on detailed
> questions from Ubuntu devs.
> 
> This year we will probably try to do something on the Qt Media Hub BSD
> project because it could be of value to the Ubuntu TV efforts or maybe hook
> into Ubuntu one media stored objects.
> 
> I know that there is interest in the topic of how to create QML components
> on Qt5 for Ubuntu and properly do a Qt Creator target integration.   If
> KDAB could speak of their experience with the Blackberry porting efforts it
> would be a brilliant addition to a  breakout discussion on what a
> comprehensive Qt port for Ubuntu targets should look like.

Sure thing.

I liked Peter Mui's idea of having a "Qt area", and where such topics could be 
discussed depending on the interests of the passers-by.

Romain

> 
> Cheers,
> Adam.
> 
> 
> -Adam