Re: GNOME/KDE interoperability hothouse

[Thomas Leonard <tal00r ecs soton ac uk>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 02:31:42PM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 10:54:12PM -0400, Jim Kingdon wrote:
> > Hi, I'm Jim Kingdon from the Free Standards Group (I'm also known for
> > CVS, GDB, and other random things).
> > 
> > We're trying to set up a GNOME/KDE interoperability hothouse at
> > LinuxWorld in San Francisco in August.  There are various pieces to
> > put together if this is going to happen, but at the moment, the big
> > one is figuring out who can make it and what they would try to get
> > done there.
> > 
> > On the question of who, I'm accepting indications of interest.  There
> > are lots of considerations here, such as trying to get people who can
> > make decisions about the relevant bits of code, matching the people
> > with the tasks, balancing GNOME and KDE (and others like ROX as
> > relevant), and more.  But I'm willing to start with: Who would find
> > this fun?  Who sees something here they'd like to work on?
>
> I fear that the KDE group will be hugely under presented as long as this
> is done in the US.
> Most KDE people are from Europe, plus that I will not travel to the USE
> in the first place. There are probably others that feel likewise.
> 
> I hope some of this development can be moved out of the 'free world' so
> the open source software developers that care about Free are able to
> cooporate.

I'm in the UK, and I think many of the other ROX developers are in Europe
too. Though I don't know if it would be worthwhile attending yet... it
depends how much would be relevant to us.

Not sure where the XFCE people are based... guys?

[ sorry for expanding the CC list yet further! ]


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