Kicking off planning session planning

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Hi all,

So far, the activity on the wiki around the planning sessions has been 
modest (to say the least).

To kick things off, I'd like to propose some stuff.

First, there's a page in the wiki 
http://live.gnome.org/Stuttgart2005/FreeformSessions which people can 
use to announce sessions, define agendas and invite participants.

I would like to propose 4 "tracks" for the planning sessions - we have 4 
big rooms, and they can serve as points-of-contact for people with a 
zone of interest, and there should be lots of small rooms or spaces 
available for people to scoot off into their own little groups 
afterwards. The rooms should be meeting points for people to find the 
project/session they're interested in.

The 4 tracks I propose are:

* Interoperability - everything to do with making GNOME work better with 
KDE, OO.o, XFCE, Mozilla - not just a freedesktop session, but primarily.
* Developers platform - gtk+, glib, atk, gconf, gnome-print, libgnome: 
All the infrastructure we share across the desktop. Probably a good 
place to talk about ABI stability too.
* Desktop - the user-visible desktop, planning sessions and 
brainstorming for application teams goes here.
* Infrastructure - Bugzilla, docs, web team, source control, marketing 
(which is in the schedule already)

The whole afternoon is really one big planning session - Topaz for 
discussion of major desktop-wide changes, the foundation AGM for 
organisational brainstorming, and 2 hours 'freeform'.

So far, we haven't really defined what "freeform" means. Consider this a 
definition.

Cheers,
Dave.

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David Neary
bolsh gimp org