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FOSDEM Interviews

Posted by samzenpus on from the listen-up dept.

FOSDEM writes "The first FOSDEM speakers' interviews are available on the FOSDEM website. The FOSDEM folks have produced 3 great interviews of Alexander Larsson from Nautilus (Gnome), Matthias Ettrich from KDE and Olivier Fourdan from XFCE."

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  1. Re:Freedesktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    Olivier Fourdan - We are not much involved in the freedesktop.org group. In fact, we try to stay compliant with the freedesktop.org standards as much as we can but we take no part in the standards themselves. We have very limited resources, and being involved with the freedesktop.org would probably mean less involvement with Xfce (well, at least for me).
    Where does he say "they don't pay a lot of attention to it?"
  2. Re:Freedesktop by asv108 · · Score: 4, Informative
    The KDE mentions a little bit of cooperation, and the XFCE guy outright stats that they don't pay a lot of attention to it. The exact words of the Oliver:

    Olivier Fourdan - We are not much involved in the freedesktop.org group. In fact, we try to stay compliant with the freedesktop.org standards as much as we can but we take no part in the standards themselves. We have very limited resources, and being involved with the freedesktop.org would probably mean less involvement with Xfce (well, at least for me).

    XFCE4 is compliant with many freedesktop.org standards, but their developers are not involved in writing the standards.

  3. Don't let the facts get in the way.... by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 3, Informative
    But these interviews show that Freedesktop is barely making a difference. The KDE mentions a little bit of cooperation
    Er....
    FOSDEM - In your point of view, how do you see the relationship between the KDE and GNOME community, but also FreeDesktop.Org?

    Matthias Ettrich - If you mean "community" as in "developer community", there is a professional level of cooperation through freedesktop.org. While many KDE developers had some initial skepticism towards freedesktop.org, it has now gained broad acceptance.
    and
    FOSDEM - Are there any plans for KDE 4 to colaborate more closely with Gnome to establish a common framework for things like IO, database access, multimedia, configuration, usual desktop services like file open dialog, print dialog, systray icon, etc

    Matthias Ettrich - Most of the things you mentioned are covered through continuous efforts done at freedesktop.org. In the area of multimedia there's even more cooperation, so I guess the answer is yes.
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  4. Re:I'm excited about going ;) by unknownalain · · Score: 2, Informative

    As mentionned by the news, these are the FIRST interviews, which means there will be others, from all speakers !

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  5. Re:FOSDEM by Dicky · · Score: 3, Informative
    Lazy git!

    FOSDEM is the Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting, a free, grassroots, um, free and open source software conference which takes place in Brussels every February. It's an intensely communal event which gathers people from all over Europe (I'm part of a group which has gone over from the UK for the past few years) for a weekend of technical stuff, beer, socialising, beer, networking, beer, and of course Belgian beer. Amongst other things, they have a tradition of posting interviews with as many of the speakers as they can before the conference, a lot of the conference is webcast live or recorded, and the annual GNU Free Software award has been announced and presented there for the past few years, which normally means a bonus high-profile speaker :-)

    In short, it's a blast, network conjestion excepted, and we'll be at Roy d'Espagne as usual on Friday night...

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