Hi there,
thought this might be interesting for this mailing list too.
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Lutz Thuns
openSUSE official member (lOtz1009)
LXDE team
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Subject: [Lxde-list] Meeting minutes from the Lightweight Meet up 2011
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:19:22 +0200
From: Christoph Wickert
To: LXDE list
Hi fellow LXDE friends,
as you might know Desktop Summit [1] currently takes place in Berlin
and
we took the opportunity to meet up for the "Lightweight Desktop
Summit" [2].
Please find attached the meeting minutes of our meeting on Sunday.
Theyare also available at http://titanpad.com/lightsm11
Regards,
Christoph
[1] https://desktopsummit.org/
[2] http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Lightweight_Desktop_Summit_2011
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Begin minutes
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Lightweight Meet up 2011
c/o desktop summit
Attendees
Christian Dywan (Xfce) kalikiana@noicq.org
Andrea Florio (openSUSE) andrea@opensuse.org
Mario Behling (LXDE) mb@mariobehling.de
Julien Lavergne (Lubuntu) gilir@ubuntu.com
Christoph Wickert (Fedora) cwickert@fedoraproject.org
AGENDA
* What happened during 2010/11
* Financial status
* Foundations sent out invitations
* organized online activities
* was present at events:
FOSSASIA,
Desktop Summit,
participated in calls for donations e.g. Thomas Krenn
Future of LXDE Foundation/Project
1. collect donations?
2. set up servers 'in-berlin' - Mario talks to Sven and in-berlin,
Christoph checks on companies that want to sponsor servers
3. reduce costs use resources more efficiently by using existing events
(Christian)
a join Desktop Summit: who to discuss with (Andrea)
* how to bring people from Europe/America and Asia together (Julien)
* We need face to face meet ups (all)
* Consensus we all need to meet up at the desktop summit
b) Desktop Summit 2012
* Propose to developers on Mailing list
* Need to make a budget plan
* Need a responsible for Desktop Summit from LXDE project's side
* LXDE Foundation can be used to get donations
* Need to Contact from KDE/Gnome - Who is it? Christoph has contacts
e.g. Claudia Rauch
* Need to talk to main organizers about talk in big rooms: LXDE and
XFCE
to give keynotes
* Find locals to support organization in city that is chosen for
Desktop
Summit 2012
* Separate work locally and on a project level: Who could do it? What
are the responsibilities?
Local: Support organization set up, checking infrastructure, catering,
airport pick up
Global Project: Responsible for calls for donations, call for speakers,
contact for project and decision contact for talks/rooms etc., decide
on
travel sponsorship with project contributors
Collaboration Light DEs
* exo (source package): upstream contribution by LXDE developers
(Christoph will talk to PCMan etc.)
* preferred applications - agree on a common framework
* proposal to freedesktop.org: setting mechanism, uri x_scheme handler
(Christoph/Christian)
Getting more contributors
Ideas
* How about pushing it with interns like KDE
- could any companies host interns?
- what could interns do
- do we need funding to pay some support to interns or could
companies do that?
* Google Summer of Code (Christian)
- who could be a mentor for the future
- how to choose students (Mario: prefers people who are known or
contributed before)
- how about people who help certain distros with LXDE?
* Booths at events
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End minutes
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