diff --git a/_posts/2018-08-21-Plasma-Mobile-at-Akademy-2018.md b/_posts/2018-08-21-Plasma-Mobile-at-Akademy-2018.md index 6cbfaac..256f235 100644 --- a/_posts/2018-08-21-Plasma-Mobile-at-Akademy-2018.md +++ b/_posts/2018-08-21-Plasma-Mobile-at-Akademy-2018.md @@ -1,66 +1,89 @@ --- title: "Plasma Mobile at Akademy 2018" created_at: 2018-08-21 19:39:00 UTC+1 author: Jonah Brüchert layout: post --- The Plasma Mobile team had a great time at the Akademy in Vienna Plasma Mobile in Vienna ## Talks Akademy 2018 had multiple talks which were related to Plasma Mobile one way or another, ### Day #1 **Bhushan Shah** presented the collaborative efforts of KDE community to use the mainline kernel instead of Halium on more open devices. Slides for which are available [on Bhushan Shah's website.](http://blog.bshah.in/slides/akademy2018/). Bhushan Shah ### Day #2 **Oliver Smith** (founder of postmarketOS) gave a talk on postmarketOS project. Slides for which are available [on postmarketOS project website.](https://postmarketos.org/static/slides/2018-akademy/). Oliver Smith **Volker Krause** presented KDE Frameworks 5 for yocto and also demonstrated Plasma Mobile running on Raspberry Pi 3 using Yocto project. In another talk Volker presented the application to assist with the usage of travel reservations, itinerary which also targets Plasma Mobile. Volker Krause Volker Krause **Camilo Higuita** talked about VVave, a cross platform project which uses the Kirigami and targets the Plasma Mobile in addition to other projects. Camilo Higuita -## Plasma Mobile BoF +## BoF Sessions -In our BoF session, we discussed our biggest problems with other Plasma developers, and came to the following conclusions: +After two days of talk session, Akademy progressed into BoF days -- We should start making proper releases, to make it easier for packagers to bring Plasma Mobile to the users. - Currently it is hard to know if the latest unreleased Plasma Mobile packages depend on an unreleased version of Plasma or not. +### Plasma Mobile BoF (monday) -- Make it easier to develop apps for Plasma Mobile in an emulator - This would only require extending the qemu feature of postmarketOS' pmbootstrap for app deployment. - -- Move KCMs which are universal out of plasma-desktop to make them available on Plasma Mobile - We still need to test which modules work fine on a mobile form factor, but we already know we can share e.g the locale module. +Kirigami BoF 2 -- We want to create a list of all apps that are compatible with Plasma Mobile, to make it easier to find out which apps they need to package +Plasma Mobile team had hosted the Plasma Mobile BoF on monday, in our BoF session, we discussed various things with other Plasma Developers and community members, and came to the following conclusions: -- Fix flatpaks in combination with libhybris - Currently flatpaks don't work with hardware accelerated graphics on libhybris based systems, since they don't include libhybris (which could be solved by a flatpak Platform extension) and don't have the permission to talk to the android services. +- We should start making proper releases, to make it easier for packagers to bring Plasma Mobile to the users. Currently it is hard to know if the latest unreleased Plasma Mobile packages depend on an unreleased version of Plasma or not. -- We noticed we need to communicate more about our work. - Some people got the impression that Plasma Mobile wasn't progressing much, we want to prove the opposite! This post is the first part of making the plan reality. +- Move KCMs which are not specific to Desktop platform out of plasma-desktop to make them available on Plasma Mobile. We still need to test which modules work fine on a mobile form factor, but we already know we can share e.g the locale module. - Bhushan Shah concluded that if we package the Maui Project's apps and write some basic apps that are still missing (like a timer application), Plasma Mobile could actually become usable as a daily driver! -## Hacking session +### Flatpak and Snap BoF -postmarketOS and KDE Neon was flashed to phones and apps and postmarketOS packages were improved during our hacking sessions. +We joined the Flatpak and Snap BoF to discuss the state of bundles on the Plasma Mobile, while bundles would just work on open devices which is using mainline kernel and opensource drivers. Currently bundles don't work with hardware accelerated graphics on libhybris based systems, since they don't include libhybris and don't have the permission to talk to the android services. We discussed the potential solution for this problems with the other developers. -If you want to help us on our journey to implement this years KDE goals, usablilty, privacy and an easy way to improve the software, in the mobile space, please join our [communication channels](https://www.plasma-mobile.org/join/), [find a task](https://www.plasma-mobile.org/findyourway), and start contributing! +### Onboarding new developers for Plasma Mobile + +Plasma Mobile team met with the Neofytos Kolokotronis and Dimitris Kardarakos who are working on goal to improve and streamline the onboarding process for new contributors, and discussed what should be our strategy to gain new contributors. + +- We noticed we need to communicate more about our work. Some people got the impression that Plasma Mobile wasn't progressing much, we want to prove the opposite! This post is the first part of making the plan reality. + +- We want to create a list of all apps that are compatible with Plasma Mobile, to make it easier to find out which apps needs to be packaged and also to which applications new contributors can contribute to. + +- Make it easier to develop apps for Plasma Mobile in an emulator + +- After BoF session we were contacted by the Louise Stolborg who provided us important feedback for our [find your way webpage](https://www.plasma-mobile.org/findyourway). She provided us feedback on what are good points about that web page and what are pain points. We will be working to improve the website based on her feedback in upcoming days. + +### Kirigami BoF + +Kirigami team hosted the BoF session to discuss the everything Kirigami, You can find more details about their BoF session on the [blog post of Marco Martin.](http://notmart.org/blog/2018/08/akademy-2018/) + +Kirigami BoF 1 +Kirigami BoF 2 + +### MauiKit and VVave BoF + +There were also VVave BoF and MauiKit BoF sessions. More details about them can be found at the [blog post by the developer of the MauiKit.](https://medium.com/@temisclopeolimac/maui-roadmap-c303cacf21eb) + +## Community The postmarketOS/Plasma Mobile Team +The UBports/Plasma Mobile Team + +Ofcourse Akademy means socialization, and meeting new people! We used this opportunity to meet up with the postmarketOS developer team, UBports developer Florian Leeber, Purism team, one of the Bronze sponsors for KDE Akademy and many other developers. + +## Sounds exciting? + +If you want to help us on our journey to implement this years KDE goals, usablilty, privacy and an easy way to improve the software, in the mobile space, please join our [communication channels](https://www.plasma-mobile.org/join/), [find a task](https://www.plasma-mobile.org/findyourway), and start contributing! diff --git a/img/akademy18-kirigami-1.jpg b/img/akademy18-kirigami-1.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b34cdb7 Binary files /dev/null and b/img/akademy18-kirigami-1.jpg differ diff --git a/img/akademy18-kirigami-2.png b/img/akademy18-kirigami-2.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..498ae1f Binary files /dev/null and b/img/akademy18-kirigami-2.png differ diff --git a/img/akademy18-plamo-bof.jpg b/img/akademy18-plamo-bof.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da9a05b Binary files /dev/null and b/img/akademy18-plamo-bof.jpg differ diff --git a/img/plamo-ubports-flohack.jpg b/img/plamo-ubports-flohack.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..391897a Binary files /dev/null and b/img/plamo-ubports-flohack.jpg differ