Re: DRAFT Agenda for GNOME Mobile meeting in Austin

["David \"Lefty\" Schlesinger" <lefty access-company com>]

Dave, I'm generally happy with this agenda. It covers the points I'd 
like to get into and then some.

If you've been smoking crack, I'd go ask for my money back...

=D

Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is a first draft of an agenda - I would really like feedback on
> this, and I plan on hassling people about it over the next couple of
> days to get you to do some homework before the event, if possible.
>
> I'm phrasing the agenda in terms of objectives, rather than topics.
> There's a reason for that - the topics can be quite loose and lend
> themselves to talking without concrete results for a couple of hours, I
> am hoping that by having solid objectives, and some meat on the bones,
> that we can make some decent progress during the meeting.
>
> The one thing which risks being a little bit more vague is the
> discussion on mid- and long-term goals. We can make these concrete, eg
> "Create a virtualised sample GNOME Mobile platform people can play with,
> and publicise and distribute it", or vague, eg "Ensure GNOME Mobile is
> the platform of choice for mobile application writers". I would prefer
> us to keep things as concrete as possible. Also, to help with over-run
> prevention, I put this before lunch :)
>
> Feedback is greatly appreciated, on-list, especially of the "you're
> smoking crack" variety if I'm on the wrong track.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> Morning:
>
> 08:30 - 09:00: Registration, breakfast, session opening.
>
> 09:00 - 10:30:
>
> Generate a list of features and patches which are being maintained
> out-of-tree, and identify resources to get them integrated, where
> relevant, into the upstream project.
>
> Examples:
>  - EDS DBus back-end
>  - Gconf DBus back-end
>  - GTK+/glib patches
>
> 10:30 - 12:00
>
> Identify 1 or 2 mid- and long-term goals for GNOME Mobile. Define a
> strategy for attaining them. Discuss again strategy for communication,
> as on the previous call. Include certification programs in discussion.
>
> Afternoon:
>
> 13:30 - 15:00
>
> Define the packages to be included in the GNOME Mobile release package,
> and the short-term goals running up to 2.24 and 2.26.
> Briefly discuss candidate technologies.
>
> 15:00 - 16:30
>
> Ramping up mobile collaboration: Identify features in the mobile
> platform which is missing, and workgroups to collaborate on building
> them. Goal: A short list of specific features, matches to names of
> people who will commit resources and commit to collaborating within GNOME.
>
>
>