[Marketing] Digia and the comunity for Qt

[Knut Yrvin]

Tirsdag 16. oktober 2012 12.46.17 skrev Jens Weller:

> As I started my own conference this Summer, I also asked the Qt
> Community for talks. 

I suspect it's the Meeting C++ in November which you're refering to?: 
http://meetingcpp.com/

> Despite beeing a new guy and conference, I had 0
> talks submitted for Qt. All Qt related talks for my conference came
> from KDAB and RIM.

I saw your invitation on the clang developer list from July 12. That was 
one month after Nokia internally declared they would sell Qt, where all Qt 
developers was in a Limbo until Digia announced they would acquire Qt 
August 9. The acquisition was formally done September 17 at midnight. 

As you might understand, there was no one in Nokia who could in July make 
a decition for participating on a conference in November. Such acquistion 
freezes all actions, and it will take some time to reconnect from a new 
company. 

That said, in July and August there was +35 well prepared Qt relevant 
talks and +50 BoF sessions at the annuall KDE conference Akademy in 
Tallinn, Estonia. We got a booth and six Qt talks and Qt traning at FISL 
13. It's one of the world biggest free software conferences with 7700 
participants in Porto Alegre in Brazil. 

 > I can understand that people like to have their talks placed at a
> conference, but there is also a lot of competition, as many people
> submit talks. Also, this years edition of QtDevDays was announced very
> shortly, due to that, there was no big time to plan and get funding for
> Community Members IMHO.

For the later years, plans for Qt Dev.Days was anounced in March or April, 
which is 5-6 months before the conference, which usually are run in Munich 
in October and San Francisco in November. 

Why has this been different this year? Well, the Qt part of Nokia was 
acquired by Digia in a period where we usually worked our butts off to get 
Qt Developer Days organized, including the other events comming in the 
autumn and winter. 

I suggest everyone who got events including Qt or doing Qt talks to update 
the Qt Events calendar:
http://qt-project.org/wiki/Category:Events

Best regards

Knut Yrvin
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Open Source Community Manager - Digia, Qt
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