Hi there, thought this might be interesting for this mailing list too. --- Lutz Thuns openSUSE official member (lOtz1009) LXDE team -------- Original Message -------- 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 ==================================================== Begin minutes ==================================================== 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 ==================================================== End minutes ==================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-lxde+help@opensuse.org