[Qbs] Session at Qt Contributor Summit next month?

[Kai Köhne]

Hi Richard,

Sorry for taking so long to come back to you ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Qbs <qbs-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Richard Weickelt
> Sent: Friday, October 18, 2019 11:43 PM
> To: qbs at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Qbs] Session at Qt Contributor Summit next month?
> 
> Hi Kai,
> 
> thanks for the heads-up.
> 
> > Nov 19-21th 2019 Qt contributors gather in Berlin to discuss the state
> > of the project, make plans and sometimes also do decisions 😉 I'm
> > wondering whether there's interest also for a Qbs session? So far
> > nobody registered one ...
> 
> Since Qbs will not become Qt's next build system, I would guess that the
> target audience of this summit wouldn't be interested in Qbs at all.

Well, it's a summit for all contributors to the Qt project - including people that 
contribute to Qbs.

> Such a
> session might make more sense at a world summit and would probably have
> promition character like what Jake did. How great was the interest in
> 2016/2017 - do you know?

I'm not sure about the exact year, but the session I remember with Jake got
quite some interest indeed.

Anyhow, for the World Summit there's a formal schedule, and the call for papers
Is long gone, so if anything you (or anyone who likes to promote Qbs) can submit
a proposal only next year.

> My personal motivation to travel in the middle of a week without being paid is
> 0.

Understood.
 
> But I would be interested to know (and that's somewhat off-topic), if there is
> any other project under the Qt Project umbrella that is not directly driven by
> the Qt Company, but by the community.

Depends on how you define 'project' 😊 Many of the qt-labs modules are not driven by the Qt Company, and there are also Qt Creator plugins and Qt addons that weren't created by (employees of) The Qt Company.

Regards

Kai