On his spare time, Elad Lahav (a kernel developer at BlackBerry) built an experimental Qt-based desktop environment to try and see if he could use QNX as a desktop operating system. And it works!
Anyone up to porting KDE to QNX for desktop use?
More at https://membarrier.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/qnx-7-desktop/
I am boarding my flight to Brussels to attend FOSDEM.
The Desktops DevRoom will be a blast again this year. While I have been in charge of it for 6? years already, the last two (since my twins) were born I had organized remotely and local duties were carried on by the Desktops DevRoom team (thank you Christophe Fergeau, Philippe Caseiro and others!).
I am anxious at meeting old friends again. I will be at the beer event today.
Video streaming will be available thanks to the Video Team. If you want to help, please contact us in the desktops-devroom@lists.fosdem.org mailing list, or directly at the devroom.
Also, this year will be the first for me using the job corner to recruit: my company (everis) is recruiting globally for many open positions. Drop us a mail at fosdem@everis.com with your CV, desired position and location (we have direct presence in 13 countries and indirect in 40 countries) and I will make sure it reaches the right inbox.
FOSDEM 2016 is going to be great (again!) and you still have the chance to be one of the stars.
Have you submitted your talk to the Desktops DevRoom yet?
No?
Remember: we will only accept proposals until December 5th. After that, the Organization Team will get busy and vote and choose the talks.
Here is the full Call for Participation, in case you need to check the details on how to submit:
FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2017 Call for Participation
Topics include anything related to the Desktop: desktop environments, software development for desktop/cross-platform, applications, UI, etc
FOSDEM is one of the largest (5,000+ hackers!) gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe).
Once again, one of the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “CrossDesktop DevRoom”), which will host Desktop-related talks.
We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience.
Topics accepted include, but are not limited to:
Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of distributing a desktop application with snap vs flatpak, or as general as using HTML5 technologies to develop native applications.
Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2016 schedule might give you some inspiration.
Please include the following information when submitting a proposal:
All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/submi
To submit your talk, click on “Create Event”, then make sure to select the “Desktops” devroom as the “Track”. Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any devroom at all.
If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact desktops-devroom@lists.fosdem.
The deadline for submissions is December 5th 2016.
FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of 4 & 5 February 2017 and the Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, February 5th 2017.
We will contact every submitter with a “yes” or “no” before December 11th 2016.
The talks in the Desktops DevRoom will be audio and video recorded, and possibly streamed live too.
In the “Submission notes” field, please indicate that you agree that your presentation will be licensed under the CC-By-SA-4.0 or CC-By-4.0 license and that you agree to have your presentation recorded. For example:
“If my presentation is accepted for FOSDEM, I hereby agree to license all recordings, slides, and other associated materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 International License. Sincerely, <NAME>.”
If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part.
The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing list desktops-devroom@lists.fosdem.
Use this page to manage your subscription: https://lists.fosdem.org/
The Desktops DevRoom 2017 is managed by a team representing the most notable open desktops:
If you want to join the team, please contact desktops-devroom@lists.fosdem.
Want to give a talk at a 6,000+ guest conference with more than 6,000 guests?
Do you feel you can deliver better than any other the other 250 speakers?
Here is your opportunity!
The FOSDEM Organization has graciously given devroom organizers a little extension. We are therefore extending our own deadline for the Desktops DevRoom: the new deadline is December 14th. There will be no further extensions.
Check the details on how to submit in the Call for Participation:
FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation
Topics include anything related to the Desktop: desktop environments, software development for desktop/cross-platform, applications, UI, etc
See you in Brussels!
FOSDEM 2016 is going to be great (again!) and you still have the chance to be one of the stars.
Have you submitted your talk to the Desktops DevRoom yet?
No?
Remember: we will only accept proposals until December 6th. After that, the Organization Team will get busy and vote and choose the talks.
Here is the full Call for Participation, in case you need to check the details on how to submit:
FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2016 Call for Participation
Topics include anything related to the Desktop: desktop environments, software development for desktop/cross-platform, applications, UI, etc
FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium, Europe). One of the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “CrossDesktop DevRoom”), which will host Desktop-related talks.
We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience.
Topics accepted include, but are not limited to:
Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; or as general as predictions for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2015 schedule might give you some inspiration.
Please include the following information when submitting a proposal:
All submissions are made in the Pentabarf event planning tool: https://penta.fosdem.org/
When submitting your talk, make sure to select the “Desktops” devroom as the “Track”. Otherwise your talk will not be even considered for any devroom.
If you already have a Pentabarf account from a previous year, even if your talk was not accepted, please reuse it. Create an account if, and only if, you don’t have one from a previous year. If you have any issues with Pentabarf, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org.
The deadline for submissions is December 6th 2015. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 30th and 31st 2015 and the Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, January 31st 2015.
We will contact every submitter with a “yes” or “no” before December 18th 2015.
The talks in the Desktops devroom will be audio and video recorded, and possibly streamed live too.
By submitting a proposal you consent to be recorded and agree to license the content of your talk under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license.
If you want us to stop the recording in the Q & A part (should you have one), please tell us. We can do that but only for the Q & A part.
The official communication channel for the Desktops DevRoom is its mailing list desktops-devroom@lists.fosdem.org.
Use this page to manage your subscription: https://lists.fosdem.org/listinfo/desktops-devroom
The Desktops DevRoom 2016 is managed by a team representing the most notable open desktops:
If you want to join the team, please contact pgquiles at elpauer dot org
It is now official: KDE will be present again at FOSDEM in the 2016 edition, on the 30th and 31st of January, 2016.
Talks will take place at the Desktops DevRoom, on Sunday the 31st, but not exclusively: in past years, there were Qt and KDE-related talks at the mobile devroom, lightning talks, distributions, open document editors and more.
KDE will be sharing the room with other desktop environments, as usual: Gnome, Unity, Enlightenment, Razor, etc. Representatives from those communities will be helping me in managing and organizing the devroom: Christophe Fergeau, Michael Zanetti, Philippe Caseiro and Jérome Leclanche.
I would like to extend the invitation to any other free/open source desktop environment and/or related stuff. Check last year’s schedule for an example. Closed-source shops (Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, etc) are ALSO invited, provided that you will talk about something related to open source.
We will publish the Call for Talks for the Desktops DevRoom 2016 soon. Stay tuned.
In the meanwhile, you can subscribe to the Desktops DevRoom mailing list to be informed of important and useful information, and talk about FOSDEM and specific issues of the Desktops DevRoom.
We are less than 10 days away from the deadline for the Desktops DevRoom at FOSDEM 2015, the largest Free and Open Source event in Europe.
Do you think you can fill a room with 200+ people out of 6,000+ geeks? Prove it!
Check the Call for Talks for details on how to submit your talk proposal about anything related to the desktop:
http://www.elpauer.org/2014/10/fosdem-2015-desktops-devroom-call-for-talks/
FOSDEM is one of the largest gatherings of Free Software contributors in the world and happens each February in Brussels (Belgium). One of the tracks will be the Desktops DevRoom (formerly known as “CrossDesktop DevRoom”), which will host Desktop-related talks.
We are now inviting proposals for talks about Free/Libre/Open-source Software on the topics of Desktop development, Desktop applications and interoperability amongst Desktop Environments. This is a unique opportunity to show novel ideas and developments to a wide technical audience.
Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: Enlightenment, Gnome, KDE, Unity, XFCE, LXQt, Windows, Mac OS X, software development for the desktop, general desktop matters, applications that enhance desktops and web (when related to desktop).
Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of development with Qt on Wayland over X11/Mir; or as general as predictions for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome. The FOSDEM 2014 schedule might give you some inspiration.
Please include the following information when submitting a proposal:
The deadline for submissions is December 7th 2014. FOSDEM will be held on the weekend of January 31st-February 1st 2015 and the Desktops DevRoom will take place on Sunday, February 1st 2015. Please use the following website to submit your proposals: https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15 (you do not need to create a new Pentabarf account if you already have one from past years).
You can also join the devroom’s mailing list, which is the official communication channel for the DevRoom: desktops-devroom@lists.fosdem.org (subscription page for the mailing list)
– The Desktops DevRoom 2015 Organization Team