Projects/Plasma/Tokamak4

Tokamak 4 Oxygen 3 2010

The fourth Tokamak Plasma Meeting and the third Oxygen Gathering will take place in Nuremberg, Germany on February 19th to 26th.

Location

We will be hosted by Novell in the openSUSE offices in Nuremberg. The community space includes a large meeting room with AV infrastructure, a cafe-style area and a hacking bar. And of course you benefit from being only metres away from the KDE SVN server.

SUSE Linux Products GmbH
Maxfeldstr. 5
90409 Nuernberg
Germany

Accomodation

Accommodation has been organised in the Berufsförderungswerk Nuernberg (Nuremberg Professional Training College) and the youth hostel in the historic Imperial Stables in Nuremberg's castle! Echoes of Nove Hrady...

Accommodation Friday + Saturday

(change to #2/depart on Sunday)

Berufsförderungswerk Nürnberg gemeinnützige GmbH
Schleswiger Str. 101
90427 Nürnberg
phone +49 911 938-6
http://www.bfw-nuernberg.de

Accommodation Sunday to Friday

Jugendherberge Nürnberg
Burg 2
90403 Nürnberg
phone +49 911 230936-12
http://www.jugendherberge.de/jh/bayern/nuernberg/

Tokamak 4 Location Map shows where things are. Note that the accommodation for the first 2 nights (Friday and Saturday) is not the same as for the rest of the week.

Travelling

Nuremberg is easily reachable by air or by train. The nearest airports for intercontinental flights are Frankfurt and Munich, and Nuremberg is served from other European hubs such as Paris Charles De Gaulle and Amsterdam. Nuremberg is only a few hours by train from most of the rest of central Europe.

You can reach the SUSE office in 6 minutes by tram from the rail station by taking the number 8 tram towards 'Thon' from the tram interchange in front of the railway station, follow the square 'Tram' signs. Alight at 'Maxfeldstr' as shown on the signs inside the tram and go to the SUSE office at Maxfeldstr. 5.

From the airport, a taxi will cost 10-14 EUR and takes about 10 minutes. Alternatively, take the U2 metro from outside Arrivals (any train), alight at 'Rennweg', leave the station by the south exit (in the direction of travel, go to the tram stop in the middle of the road on your right as you exit the metro, and get the number 8 tram towards 'Thon' as above.

Maps and ticket details coming soon.

Participants

Participants

Name	Email	Arrival	Depart	Cost	Sponsor?	Hotel?	Food	Work	Airport	Flights
Aaron Seigo	[email protected]	TBD	TBD	~$1300?	yes	yes	vegetarian	Overall facilitation
Marco Martin	[email protected]	19	26	93€	yes	yes	whatever	whatever coding and else, Plasma mobile	Nuremberg (NUE)	In ABB8403 19:20 / Out ABB8403 08:35
Ivan Čukić	[email protected]	19.2	26.2	approx €250	yes	yes	whatever	nepomuk activities merging, libfavorite...	Nuremberg (NUE)	In LH3405, LH938 12:05 / Out LH943, LH3402 12:45
Artur de Souza	[email protected]	19	26	~1000 euros	yes	yes	whatever	coding, mobile, bug fixing, etc...
Nuno Pinheiro	[email protected]	19	24	aprox 250€	yes	yes	whatever	whatever artwork, mobile, planing, etc....
Chani	[email protected]	19 (20:16)	26 (11:25)	~$1300	yes	yes	vegetarian	activity management / js / random bugs	In: train. Out: NUE	Out: Delta 9500
Martin Gräßlin	[email protected]	19.	21.	0	no	yes		KWin on embedded devices
Lukas Appelhans	[email protected]	19. - 18:24	21. - 17:33	~150€	yes	yes	whatever	Quicklaunch-Applet, KGet-Applets, Shaman/Aqpm-Applets, Raptor?
Frank Karlitschek	[email protected]	19	26	50EUR	yes	yes	whatever	Social Desktop
Dario Freddi	[email protected]	19	22	~150€	yes	yes	whatever	stuff that nobody wants to do, as usual
Riccardo Iaconelli	[email protected]	19	21	TBD, I suppose ~150-200€	yes	yes	whatever	plasmoids, art, ideas, fun :-)
Sebastian Kügler	[email protected]	19th	26th	~100€	yes	yes	whatever	Power- and networkmanagement, web integration, PIM stuff
Davide Bettio	[email protected]	TBD, probably 19th	TBD, I don't know	TBD, I suppose ~150-200€	yes	yes	whatever	TBD
Will Stephenson	[email protected]	Local	Local	0	no	no	whatever	Keeping everyone else happy, networkmanagement	N/A	I can see the venue from my kitchen
Eugene Trounev	[email protected]	19-11:15	26-11:50	$1,126.97 CAD	yes	yes	no meat. fish, eggs, and milk are OK	various artowrk (like wallpapers), designs and more	Nuremberg(NUE)	In AC9268/Out AC9195
Igor Trindade Oliveira	[email protected]	19	26	~800 euros	yes	yes	whatever	coding, animations, netbook etc...
Frederik Gladhorn	[email protected]	19.2.	26.2.	~50 euros	yes	yes	whatever	opendesktop integration
Martin Zilz	[email protected]	TBD (20.?)	TBD (24.?)	~150 euros	no	yes	whatever	arts, ux, freaky out of the box stuff
Luboš Luňák	[email protected]	19	23	~100 euros	no	yes	whatever	KWin
Alexis Menard	[email protected]	19	26	Approved by Nokia -> 0	no	yes	whatever	Plasma-Mobile and Qt	Nuremberg(NUE)
Friedrich Kossebau	[email protected]	19	26	max. 100 EUR	yes	yes	whatever	Plasmoids (one of): Timeline, Khalkhi (Porting to KDE4), Network devices
Adenilson Cavalcanti	[email protected]	20	25	~800 euros	yes	yes	carnivorous	coding, animations, etc
Richard Moore	[email protected]	19	24	I'll pay for flight	accommodation only	yes	yes please	silky stuff, api review etc.	NUE	In LH4869, LH 0938. Out LH0939, LH4864
Sandro Andrade	[email protected]	20th 1825	27th 0955	~1000 euros	yes	yes	preferably vegetarian	plasmoids, data engines, and plasmate interest	Nuremberg (NUE)	In TP7784 / Out TP7795
Kevin Ottens	[email protected]	19	26	~200 euros	yes	yes	no seafood	mobile, api review, solid if times permit

Special Needs

• Laptop/desktop for hacking with KDE trunk on it for: Lukas Appelhans
• Helpful for hacking on the 3 Intel devices (not vital, but would preed thing up especially the ethernet adaptor):
  • usb hub (preferably powered)
  • usb-to-ethernet adaptor (unreliable drivers for the internal wifi)
  • extra storage/file transfer can be done with the ethernet adaptor of with microsd/thumbdrives
  • usb keyboards and mice would ease things a bit too since it supports them
• For presentations a video camera would be nice, preferably with a remote microphone. (available in openSuse offices?)

Topics

We will be focusing on the KDE SC 4.5 release of Plasma, with a particular attention on feature completion, polishing and quality improvements across the code base. Activities and Plasma Mobile will also be topics of interest.

Oxygen, finishing it up for 4.5 plans for the future.

Opening Day Presentations

• Plasma mobile: State of art (Alexis)
• Plasma netbook: State and road ahead - most important work still to be done (Marco Martin)

• Context: [Details later] (Chani and Ivan)
• Shaman - Bringing software management into the workspace and into 2010 [if time permits] (Dario and Lukas)
• Oxygen what it was, what it will be?

Development Topics

• ZUI replacement in plasma-desktop
• Plasma Mobile
• Plasma Netbook
• Plasma Media Center
• Plasmate
• Applet handles as plugins?
• Moving the toolboxes out of libplasma
• Plasma::Storage
• Dataengines caching
• Plasma wallpaper scripting
• Focus and drag&drop issues
• Store/load containment layouts
• RTL
• use of configChanged() in widgets
• reusable widgets for groups of iconized items (like the entries in the taskbar)
• guidelines (with code support) for consistent looking rows of different widgets (e.g. like with bars on the top of the screen, as known from mobiles' UI or the Mac UI)
• Plasma OSD service
• GSoC
• http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Plasmoid-Issues
• application dashboards using View/Corona/Newspaper

Breakout Groups

Starting on day two we will split up into small groups to focus on specific topics and challenges. The breakout group tracks will start with short presentations designed to share important information about the topic of interest to get everybody up to speed. A schedule for each of the presentations will be posted closer to the start of Tokamak 4.

Some people will stay with a specific track for the duration of Tokamak 4, but everyone is welcome to drift between the different breakout groups to bring their needs and ideas to bear.

Plasma Mobile

Topic

Plasma shells on devices with small screens and designed for mobility. The focus use case will be touch screen driven smartphones.

Duration

All week

Facilitator

Marco

Presentations

Moblin SDK, Marco, Day 2

Maemo SDK, Alexis, Day 2

Particpants

Marco

Alexis

Aaron

Nuno Pinheiro

Kevin

Context and Activities

Topic

The behind-the-scenes orchestration of environment-wide Context as well as the UI presentation of them (and/or their activities?) to the user

Duration

Facilitator

Presentations

Participants

Ivan Čukić

Chani

Oxygen

Topic

Desktop themes, widgets styles, window decorations, icons, coherent branding, sites, Plasma panels, how can we clean them?

What is next? Helium? Fixing kde app's UI's one by one?

Duration

All week

Facilitator

Nuno Pinheiro (19-24)

Presentations

Participants

Nuno Pinheiro

KWin

Topic

The present and future of the window manager component of the KDE Workspace.

Duration

All week

Facilitator

Presentations

Areas In Which Plasma Desktop Should Get Out of the Way and KWin Should Step In, Aaron, Day ?

Participants

Nuno Pinheiro

Marco

Application Menus

Topic

Sharing Application Menu specific code, Nepomuk integration, new menu structure (TOM?)

Duration

Half-day

Facilitator

Lukas

Presentations

Participants

Lukas

Ivan Čukić

Riccardo

Nuno Pinheiro

Socials

Saturday - thai buffet?

On Tuesday there will be a dinner sponsored by openSUSE at Herr Lenz restaurant

Thursday - End of Tokamak party at Downtown?

Open Tokamak

On Saturday, we'll have an Open Day at Tokamak. Visitors are welcome to join us that day, and possibly for evening/night-time activities. On Saturday we'll also plan the presentations, If there will be enough interests some talks could be redone/improvised for the public.