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

[Manish Chakravarty]

Hi Everyone,

> This would be an event to participate.
>
> Manish: I am sure you will be.
You bet I am. I will surely join this conference.
I will mail stefan as well. regarding this.
Joe, Thank you so much for forwarding the mail.
> BeleniX has made a lot of contributions to KDE on Solaris. This would 
> be place to get our views heard and generally participate.
It surely has, IMHO.
Belenix still has a long way to go, but it already does a pretty good 
job at providing an opensolaris-based kde live cd. (and not to forget, 
XFCE as well)


> 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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