[ug-bosug] KDE Solaris IRC Conference - Call for action

[Joe G (Joseph George)]

This would be an event to participate.

Manish: I am sure you will be.

BeleniX has made a lot of contributions to KDE on Solaris. This would  
be place to get our views heard and generally participate.

o Who from this group is interested in participating? If you are  
interested, please email Stefan to let him know of your interest.
o What should we do?

Thanks,
~Joe


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stefan Teleman <stefan.teleman at gmail.com >
Date: May 2, 2007 11:27 PM
Subject: KDE Solaris
To: Stefan Teleman <stefan.teleman at gmail.com>

Dear KDE Friends,

I am writing to you on behalf, and as a member, of, the KDE
Foundation -- KDE e.V. I would like to take a few moments of your
time and ask for your help in building our Community.

To quickly recap what is already well known by now, the K Desktop
Environment was started by Matthias Ettrich in 1996
[http://groups.google.com/group/de.comp.os.linux.misc/msg/ 
cb4b2d67ffc3ffce].
The KDE Solaris Community was pioneered by our current President of
the KDE Foundation Board, Eva Brucherseifer, in 2002. It began as a
mailing list hosted on the kde.org domain, kde-solaris, "dedicated to
KDE on Solaris and questions about Solaris". Over time, with your
involvement, and your support, it grew into having its own dedicated
site [http://solaris.kde.org/]. In 2002, the very idea of starting a
Free and Open Source Software Community dedicated to a closed source
operating system [Solaris] was courageous, to say the least. It also
showed a great deal of insight into the future of Solaris.

Eva's intuition was correct, and Sun Microsystems launched OpenSolaris
in 2005, and the KDE Community was one of the first external
Communities to open at OpenSolaris
[http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/kde/].

This year will be the year of KDE4. This coming June will also mark
the second anniversary of OpenSolaris. The time has come for KDE
OpenSolaris to evolve beyond its current status, and for the KDE
Solaris Community to coalesce and grow. The reality is: if we don't
do it, noone else will. I have always felt that our Community has
always been perceived as being smaller than it really is. And maybe
this inaccurate perception makes it easier for our Community to be
labeled as minuscule, or easily discountable. We should not settle
for, or accept, this perception, simply because it is not an accurate
reflection of reality. We aren't just a page with a screenshot at
OpenSolaris.

We are all part of the KDE Community. Implicitly, we are also part of
the greater F/OSS Community. But, community affiliation can quickly
become immaterial without continuous, direct and active involvement
from its members. Our material existence as a F/OSS community is
ultimately determined by our common interest: Software, by our common
goal: KDE and KDE Solaris, and also by our actions: involvement.

Without further ado, the KDE e.V. would like to invite all of you to
our kick-off KDE Solaris IRC Conference. The goals of this Conference
are:

1. Get everyone [virtually] together for the first time
2. Current status of KDE Solaris
3. Future direction of KDE Solaris
4. Plan Of Action
5. Get Involved!
6. Let's Build KDE Solaris!

This Conference won't be long. The tradition at KDE has always been
that actions are more important than meetings. But, once in a while,
meetings are necessary. I believe the time has come for all of us
to "get organized". I can promise that our Conference will be focused
and goal-oriented:

- building and testing QT Solaris
- building and testing KDE Solaris
- porting, building and testing KDE Solaris' external dependencies
- submitting patches for discussion
- submitting patches upstream to mainline KDE
- submitting patches upstream to their corresponding communities
- packaging KDE Solaris and making it available for everyone

Some of these tasks are relatively easy, while others can be tricky,
and sometimes even crazy. However, in a real Community, noone is ever
left alone. Others will always be available to help.

Achieving all these goals will not only enrich our Community; it will
also achieve something more important: we will build friendships with
other Communities.

I would like to kindly ask you to reply to this email and indicate
your interest in participating in our IRC Conference, and in the
future development of KDE Solaris. And, if you have any friends whom
you know might be interested as well, please forward them this
invitation.

Precise date and time of the IRC Conference will be sent shortly in a
separate email. We are aiming for sometime shortly after May 15th,
2007.

Thank you very much for your time. We are all counting on your help,
and I am confident that together we can make KDE Solaris shine.

Stefan Teleman

--
Stefan Teleman
KDE e.V.
stefan.teleman at gmail.com
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