[Marketing] Digia and the comunity for Qt

[Jens Weller]

Betreff: Re: [Marketing] Digia and the comunity for Qt

> 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/

Yes. But that doesn't matter for the discussion.

> > 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. 

ah, that explains a lot. I posted on June 28th on qt-project, and also on other qt related sites.
 
> 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 didn't say no one gives talks on Qt ;)
I said that I wondered why there was that little reaction/submissions.
And ofc Academy or Contributor Summit are well known events.


> 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

Ah, thats good to know :)

regards,

Jens Weller