Projects/Solid/Meetings/Akademy2010

Attendees

In alphabetical order, these are metalworkers expected to be at Akademy 2010:

• Alex Fiestas
• Kevin Ottens
• Michael Zanetti
• Sebastian Kügler

Please also declare which days/timeslots you will be around: http://www.doodle.com/7cm3ucw2ubvxague

Topics For Discussion

• Deprecating libsolidcontrol
  • Current state in bluetooth, network, power, etc.
  • Breaking out in tasks to get there

• Narrowing/strengthening libsolid API
  • Finding features we duplicate from the Qt API itself
  • Finding (almost) unused or useless frontend interfaces

• Adopt a backend session

• Bluetooth integration in libsolid

• Bluetooth plans for 4.6
• Network plans for 4.6

• if people can be available via audio conferencing
  • (Dario) PowerDevil plans for 4.6
  • (Paulo) GSoC2010, UPnP support in libsolid

• KDE Hardware wiki

Workshop, get your hands dirty

Kevin can show you how to get started in writing your own libsolid backend. A mini-hackfest for that could be nice. Put your name in front of a backend to adopt it:

• Alsa
• BlueZ
• fstab/mtab, network shares only
• UDev, for "other" devices (camera, mediaplayer, etc.)
• UDisks
• UPnP (Paulo, Friedrich)
• UPower