Second and last day of the conference. In the morning I basically attended the whole quality track, and even participated in it since I had my first talk there. Overall it was a good track I think. I particularly appreciated the SQO-OSS one. It was a very good talk by Paul Adams, very clever, lot of humour… and very interesting approach on the how to deal with quality metrics, and how to build them. I’ll definitely attend the follow-up BoF. These kind of tools are a good way to improve the overall quality of the project and strengthen our release process without to go through the bureaucracy hassle. I’m looking forward to use more the EBN and the results coming out of SQO-OSS in this regard.
The Qtopia for Developers talk by Harald Fernengel was really good too… the only “downside” is that after the talk you definitely want to get a Greenphone to experiment quite a lot of stuffs with it.
It was followed by the group photo and lunch. I had interesting discussions with Aaron, Lars, Marius and Zack during this lunch.
During the afternoon I particularly appreciated the community talks. First, Claire talk about how we could get more involved in research projects. Actually, I think she has a very good overview of the situation, even if I consider her a bit too optimistic on the amount of projects we could handle short term. That said, I’m really willing to invest some time to make that happen… The only unknown being how much time I’ll have available overall after my PhD.
The last talk I attended was the one by Anne which was about how to build consensus. Very, very interesting topic for community like us. We sometimes try to build consensus with no clear rules and it makes it harder. We sometimes also rely on votes, which matches our “real life” habits, but generate bureaucracy. I’m glad to see people working on such issues.
Then it was my turn again, I had a talk about the students projects I setup at the IUP ISI. I think it got well received, and I hope to see the ideas in it grow outside of Toulouse.
Finally we had the aKademy Award Ceremony. This year the committee awarded Sebastian Trueg for K3B, Matthias Kretz for Phonon and Danny Allen for the commit digest. Congrats to all of them!
That was the last day of conference, monday is about the KDE e.V. general assembly so I’ll probably won’t blog much, and then the Hacking Marathon is coming with lot of nice BoFs, extra talks and coding fury!
