If you'd like to be there live, just add me to your circles on Google+ and you'll get an invite. If you can't make it, the video will appear on Youtube directly after the video cast concludes and you can pick it up there. Either way, feel free to leave questions, comments and topic suggestions in the comments below. You can, of course, bring your questions to the live show, too!
Here is the agenda (as currently planned) for the show:
- Marble-ocity: Cool things you can do with the Marble mapping application. 5 minutes
- Forkification: a reflection on the phenomenon of major Free software communities that have experience significant forks in recent years (MySQL, OpenOffice, XFree86, GNOME ... ) and those that have maintained their community in one piece (PostgreSQL, Linux, XFCE, KDE ...). 5 minutes.
- Vivaldi tablet: finally! I can briefly share what we have been working on, our timelines and the implications for KDE software on devices. 5 minutes.
- Audience interaction: updates from last week's audience interaction, then on to new topics: discussion, questions and answers. 30-45 minutes.
5 comments:
This initiative to talk to the community is great.
I would like to suggest a topic for discussion: "the state of chat/audio/video/presentation meetings using floss: what we must, should and could do".
Google's and other providers services, like G+, Facebook, etc, are great. They are very fine tunned and easy to get started with (and gratis). However, I think we should try to improve on floss tools that enable anyone to provide those kind of services, in a privacy and security oriented way. Things like secureshare (secushare.org), friendica (friendica.com), friendica red, noosfero, etherpads, owncloud, etc. Maybe an integration of those, or an effort to help out with secureshare or other...
By the way, I'm also eager for the Vivaldi announcement.
Cheers
@Luis: Yes, it's really unfortunate that we still do not have tools for those things.
It's a great topic ... I'll schedule it in :)
I'm looking forward to hearing about Vivaldi too.
Just had a look at opentablets.org and it appears to have shutdown - which is sad...
@Aaron
I couldn't watch the hangout live, but I watched it later on youtube. I've figured you didn't have the complete answer to "the state of chat/audio/video/presentation meetings using floss: what we must, should and could do" :-)
But my idea was to really get people thinking on it. I am, myself, very interested in having some sort of turn key floss solution... Maybe with other people involved something could be done (or improved on).
BTW, sorry for not giving you more information (my name is Luis Soeiro, @luissoeiro in identi.ca, my blog is actually under re-construction), but thanks for scheduling it in.
Another thing: thanks for the status on the Vivaldi tablet. Besides hoping to grab a couple for myself :-), I'm rally hoping that you guys can sell lots and lots of them. That way, the guys the produce GPUs and other bits can see there there is a market just eager to buy and build stuff based on free/libre and open source code. If Vivaldi really catches on (and I think it will), maybe larger vendors might also see the advantage of having a community around floss and their hardware. Maybe then we will finally have 100% floss based tablets, smartphones and all other gadgets.
That bit about the upgradeability of Vivaldi is also very interesting. There is also an appeal to ecologically correct behavior for a hardware company.
Cheers
ps-> Is there someplace where I can find you email address?
if you put a gsm chip on vivaldi (it's cheap: no umts/hdspa, only gsm for voice calls), it will become my favourite phone! ;)
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