Saturday, April 26. 2008Amarok SoC: Context View
I'd like to welcome William Soares (Liw- on IRC), one of the Amarok SoC students for 2008. I'll let his words introduce him:
My name is William Viana Soares, I live in Spain although I am from Brazil and this is my 4th year as a Computer Science Engineering student. My goal during this summer will be to make Amarok Context View more usable. I will focus on the the use of libplasma capabilities to create a nice zooming user interface where all the context information will lay. I will also be working on Amarok's Plasma packaging system and in the development of new applets with contextual information. I'm really excited that my application was accepted and I'm looking forward to start coding and see my improvements done for the sake of Amarok and my own since I'm an Amarok user  We are very glad to have someone working on the Context View again this summer, and i personally can't wait to see all the exciting things that he comes up with. Saturday, April 26. 2008Amarok Resolved
Dear Tristan, I like further developed ideas, mostly, and I also like to develop ideas further.
...I just read such a further developed idea and since I like it a lot, I am goint to develop it further (normal process for me). Tomorrow Amarok, Linux market leader in the Music Application segment, will announce something revolutionary. We came to the decision that others know better and therefore we will sync our release schedule to Ubuntu, Linux market leader in the Home User Operating System segment. Our current model of partly time-based and partly feature-based release planing is apparently creating enormous inefficiency in the development of our high-quality software. Mainly because of this we will do 2 releases per year, each 2 days before Ubuntu releases a new version, so that the build servers have enough time to build the packages. In order to join this with our very fast and feature rich development we will provide at least 25% new or changed code in a time-frame of one year (2 releases), we hope that by setting this minimal growth rate we are able to increase our userbase by 213% per year. To support these alternations quality assurance will be reduced to a minimum as it can cause scaling issues in combination with this new concept. This is however only the first step. In a long-term view we aim to breakup the underlying project of Amarok and become a 100% part of the Ubuntu project to share resources and create a strong leader in thew newly created market of Music Home User Appliaction Operating Systems. We also want to prevent our users from wasting half their life with compilation, so we will stop releaseing source tarballs but instead only offer Ubuntu DEB-files. We will also suggest KDE and all the distributions, we have intensive collaboration with, to start a strong binding to the Ubuntu project as well, and possibly become part of it. Watch out for the announcement and the moving of our structures from KDE/Amarok ones to Ubuntu/Launchpad. A nice day wishes your soon-not-to-be-anymore-project-manager. Saturday, April 26. 2008Open Tech Summit Taiwan - Day 1Reporting from the luxuries of free Internet at our hostel in Taipei, Ian and I have been going over the talk that we’ll be giving on Amarok tomorrow at the Open Tech Summit here in Taiwan. The entire day today has been spent at the (very nice) Asus corporate headquarters - about 20 minutes on the metro ride outside of Taipei. The metro itself is a nice analogy to the Taiwanese people. Exceptionally efficient, very friendly and hospitable, immaculately clean and well thought out. Kudos to you, Taiwanese government. So friendly have the Taiwanese people been that I’ve been escorted up 10 flights of stairs, around train stations and through chaotic traffic - just to lend a hand. The Asus headquarters are totally awesome, if simply for this rendition of the Mona Lisa created entirely out of motherboard parts.
The aim of OTST is to promote open software and hardware to the Taiwanese, who are quite backward in their thinking of FOSS culture. We’re here on a religious missionary crusade to try and convince them to pick up free software! There were a number of interesting talks today, such as an introductions to OHI and OpenPattern, ultra cool speech recognition software for the EeePC and a general EeePC hacking howto. There were a few talks in Chinese, but I still found it easy to understand how cool it was to see compositing support on the EeePC. In the early evening we had a light dinner party (which was quite heavy as we’d been fed all day), with two performances by local creative-commons artists. It’s heart-warming to see that Asus is putting a lot of effort into hosting this event and really trying to push the FOSS movement in Taiwan. Saturday, April 26. 2008 |
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