Re: [guadec-list] Mobile track at Gran Canaria Desktop Summit?

[Quim Gil <quim gil nokia com>]

Hi,

ext Stormy Peters wrote:
> Do you think it's best to have a separate day or to just run a track
> during the main conference? Or maybe we should do both ... By running it
> during the main confernece, I think we would expose the topics to people
> that might not consider themselves part of the GNOME mobile group. That
> would be good for general awareness and maybe even growing the group.

There are potential sessions that are very specific to mobile desktops
with no direct implications for 'static desktops', but there is a lot of
stuff going on that is initiated by mobile projects or needs but have an
impact overall (e.g. presence, bluetooth, connectivity management,
search & metadata, desktop widgets, media players...).

Cornering all this stuff in a mobile track would be as unfair as detach
it from the main tracks. Also, even if what most people have nowadays
(and therefore what most app developers target) are 'static desktops',
when it comes to new developments a lot of the innovation is being
pushed by the mobile business and use cases. It's "only" because the
hardware is still not so available and popular that there is less users
and less app developers, but if we believe the expectations of Nokia,
Intel, Access, LiMo, Canonical... all this is meant to change and the
Desktop Summit looks like the right place to highlight this.

-- 
Quim Gil