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Mail to kde-community and kde-embedded so people join kde-embedded

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Dear KDE friends,

during Akademy 2017 I delivered a lightning talk "Opening new doors: KDE in embedded" in line with a mail[2] sent to kde-community mailing list in April 2016 and a blog post[3] published in October 2016.

After the talk, several of you approached me with the idea to organize a BoF. We did. The talking points were:

  • Presentation of every participant (around 12) and description of the opportunity they see in automotive for KDE.
  • Those of us who are currently (or has been in the past) involved in automotive described which opportunities we see nowadays for KDE in automotive..
  • We agreed on working towards creating a basic demo that shows the capabilities of KDE technologies in the automotive field to show it in events related with Open Source in automotive.
  • Overview of the challenges to face to make thar demo come true.
  • And then?

    So in general the idea of the BoF was to find out if there was enough interest in the topic which there was.

    Now it is time to shape a plan and work towards creating a simple demo that shows the potential that our technologies, the project and the community has in this sector, specially within those incipient open and collaborative environments that were formed a couple of years back and that are growing fast creating Linux based distributions for automotive. AGL and GENIVI are the best known examples..

    One of the most recent decisions has been to revive the kde-embedded mailing list[4]. A project in phabricator[5] has also been created. Please join us there too, specially if you are willing to contribute.

    In the coming weeks we will try to move from intentions to action.

    [1] https://conf.kde.org/en/akademy2017/public/events/357 [2] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2016q2/002654.html [3] http://toscalix.blogspot.com.es/2016/10/automotive-what-opportunity-for-kde.html [4] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-embedded [5] https://phabricator.kde.org/project/profile/242/

    Best Regards
toscalix created this task.Aug 3 2017, 10:37 PM
vkrause added a comment.Aug 4 2017, 8:28 AM

Sounds good to me. Maybe also worth mentioning is the related effort around Yocto (https://phabricator.kde.org/project/profile/241/), which is another outcome of the same meeting and which is already moving forward nicely.

toscalix added a comment.Aug 7 2017, 12:47 PM
  • I would consider this as the same "project". Even if we cannot make it until the end, this effort can be considered as an outcome of this effort.
  • I sent a simpler mail to the kdeembedded mailing list. I will mention the progress in supporting Yocto in the above mail, to be sent to the kde-community mailing list.
toscalix moved this task from ToDo to In progress on the Automotive board.Aug 7 2017, 1:51 PM
toscalix moved this task from In progress to ToDo on the Automotive board.Aug 15 2017, 11:56 AM
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toscalix moved this task from ToDo to In progress on the Automotive board.Aug 30 2017, 10:14 AM
  • @vkrause added the link to the Yocto Phabricator project
  • Updated the text since the mail was done a few weeks ago.
  • Sent it to kde-community mailing list
toscalix moved this task from In progress to Review on the Automotive board.Sep 4 2017, 10:26 AM
toscalix moved this task from Review to Closed on the Automotive board.