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Linux Desktop Summit Program Announced

Posted by Soulskill on from the scheduled-for-2002 dept.

jrepin writes with this excerpt from an announcement by KDE: "The Desktop Summit is a joint conference organized by the GNOME and KDE communities, the two dominant forces behind modern graphical software on free platforms. Over a thousand international participants are expected to attend. The main conference takes place from 6-8 August. The annual membership meetings of GNOME and KDE are scheduled for 9 August, followed by workshops and coding sessions on 10-12 August."

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  1. Interesting times by KugelKurt · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is the Desktop Summit (Akademy/GUADEC) I'm looking forward the most since years.
    GNOME has entered a new era with GNOME 3.0 and KDE has a lot going on with Active (KDE's mobile initiative). The news about Qt 5 and a possible KDE Platform 5 is also very interesting.
    These higher level software are paired with the arrival and switch to Wayland.

    Lot's of stuff happening in the FOSS world to shed legacy technologies that hold the entire stack back.
    While not officially announced, I'm hoping the newly announced TermKit http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit will be discussed during the open days. TermKit is new concept to replace the decades old Unix pipes with a modern implementation based on JSON. The Desktop Summit sounds like a perfect place to bring it to Linux and possibly FreeBSD,... as well (the current implementation is written for Mac OS X but it is not bound to it).

    After years of maintaining the status quo in the FOSS stack some much needed renovating happens now.
    Exciting times!

    PS: I'm also glad to see that this Desktop Summit is not a "KDE + GNOME and a bit of support architecture" show. Someone from Enlightenment will also be there and talk about E17 and EFL.