diff --git a/reports/ev-2018/images/logos/neon-logo.svg b/reports/ev-2018/images/logos/neon-logo.svg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8381a51 --- /dev/null +++ b/reports/ev-2018/images/logos/neon-logo.svg @@ -0,0 +1,164 @@ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + image/svg+xml + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + diff --git a/reports/ev-2018/lakademy.html b/reports/ev-2018/lakademy.html index 6dab78f..9f37f1d 100644 --- a/reports/ev-2018/lakademy.html +++ b/reports/ev-2018/lakademy.html @@ -1,80 +1,80 @@

Lakademy, October 2018, Florianopolis

By Sandro Andrade

LaKademy - the Latin American Akademy - took place from 11th to 14th of October 2018 at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in the city of Florianopolis, Brazil. Members of the local Free and open source software community gathered at the event. It was a fantastic opportunity for everyone to work on KDE projects, but also on other unrelated projects that each person contributes to. The participants strengthened their friendship bonds and shared experiences about creating, using, and maintaining software.

On the first day, more than 20 participants, including Karina Mochetti and six students of Computer Science from the Federal University Fluminense (UFF, Niteroi) started resolving the issues in translation scripts used by the localization team. A lot of work was done on restructuring the translation process, and on preparing guidelines and tutorials for newcomers to the translation team.

The participants also worked on the KDE Edu software - the educational suite for everyone from age 5 to 95. It was the first time that the project had this kind of help - from a formal partnership between a university and its students - and also the first LaKademy with so many attendees from all corners of the continent.

-
Workshop at LaKademy.
--> +
Workshop at LaKademy.

More development work happened during the event; namely, cryptography was added to Konsole History file. Participants also overhauled Atelier Core compatibility and added support for new technologies. Last but not least, they updated the KDE Timeline website with additional significant events.

On Saturday, October 13th, the traditional promo meeting took place, where the future of the Latin American KDE community was discussed. The meeting covered a wide range of topics: from communication tools, KDE's presence at Brazilian events, and the promotional materials to the proposal of migrating the KDE Brasil site to Wordpress.

Finally, on Sunday (October 14th) everyone celebrated the 22 years of KDE with a cake. Konqui was there, too! The community also considered potential host cities for LaKademy 2019, and shared some thoughts on making it happen outside of Brazil as a way of reinforcing the "Latin-American-ness" of the event.



diff --git a/reports/ev-2018/linkat_neon_sprint.html b/reports/ev-2018/linkat_neon_sprint.html index db08977..bb5942b 100644 --- a/reports/ev-2018/linkat_neon_sprint.html +++ b/reports/ev-2018/linkat_neon_sprint.html @@ -1,80 +1,80 @@
-

Linkat-Neon Sprint, September 2018, Barcelona

+

Linkat-Neon Sprint, September 2018, Barcelona

By Jonathan Riddell

In October 2018, developers from the KDE neon and Plasma teams visited Barcelona. We were there to meet with KDE-related software projects in the Catalan government and schools that we had heard about. Aleix Pol lives locally and works on Plasma and Discover. He invited Plasma release manager and KDE neon developer Jonathan Riddell, KDE neon continuous integration master Harald Sitter, and hardware enablement guru Rohan Garg to meet the teams evaluating our software and supporting our users.

Meeting with Pablo of Catalan Generalitat distro Linkat.

We first met Pablo, who runs the Linkat project for the Catalan government. Linkat is a Linux distribution they offer to schools, and it currently runs lightweight, simple desktop environments. As Plasma 5 now tends to use as little or less memory and resources than many lightweight Linux desktops, the Linkat team is interested in trying it. We met with the officials from the education department and discussed accessibility needs, looking at Mycroft for voice control and integrating with phones using KDE Connect.

The next day we visited the largest technical school in Catalonia, the Escola del Treball (”school of the workers”). Within their impressive Gaudí-inspired building, they run a few thousand computers on which they are trying to reduce the costs. They showed us the setup they had developed using thin clients with a simple Atom computer or Raspberry Pi. The thin clients use a remote desktop protocol to talk to virtual machines on a central server. The technically-minded teachers can customize what's running on the virtual machine with a range of distributions and operating systems available. Their server has hosted over 3000 virtual machine images just on the trial computers, all for the individual use-cases of the teaching staff. Unlike with proprietary setups, this means they do not have to ask for a budget to install software.

They discussed some problems their virtual machine software was having with Plasma and tested some fixes made by Aleix. Rohan was interested in finding the best machines they could use for their thin clients.

In the evening, we met with developer Angel Docampo and talked about the deployment he worked on for the Ajuntament (city council) of Barcelona. The Ajuntament is also interested in moving towards Free Software on their computers. This deployment is based on Kubuntu, and it is currently in trial by about 30 employees. Angel reported they are happy with the setup; however, taking it further will likely depend on the politicians' will to drive the change forward.

As we were about to leave, we learned about a project called openUAB at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. They are making a KDE neon-based system for their own uses. We expect to find out more about this project after Aleix meets with them in the upcoming weeks.

This was an exciting trip that opened our eyes to the increasing number and variety of users and use-cases of KDE software. The insights we collected will help us deliver better software, and strengthen the bonds between our community and the rest of the world.