Quick notification: on Saturday the 18th (tomorrow by my clock, but today already for many others) there is a Plasma meeting to determine our game plan leading up to the hard feature freeze mid-November. It will start at 15:00 UTC. Plasma people: be there, or be square!
I'm also considering doing a weekly live broadcast via Ustream.tv. I'd like to do some technical tutorials, do some general user updates and some KDE business related updates (e.V. stuff, for instance). I'd like to make it interactive with people asking questions or providing input on an IRC channel. I'm still not completely sold on the idea ... so I'd like to hear what you think.
Btw, I haven't found any Free internet broadcasters (meaning ones that don't use flash or other proprietary stuff), so if you know of one please let me know.
Also, if anyone knows of any decent Free software that runs on Linux that can combine a live video stream with a live desktop stream, please let me know. Otherwise, I think there's a great opportunity for an interesting v4l2 based project just waiting to be filled: imagine if we had the Free sofware tools to do live education on both usage and deveopment of Free software. The mind boggles! =)
(Oh, and speaking of "ways I communicate to others", for those that haven't stumbled upon it, I also twitter, because it's what all the cool kids are doing and I like to do what the cool kids do in a form of silent ironic mockery. Or something. Meh.)
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http://freej.dyne.org/ maybe useful
I've been kicking an idea around in my head lately, only problem is ability to deliver.
I'm looking at a number of the technologies in KDE for my purposes, and thought that a podcast (no video for me) of the process of discovering how to use them would be useful, including interviews with developers, full transcript and source. You know what you do when you are trying to figure out how to use an api; it would be enormously helpful to talk to a developer, ask the obvious and non obvious questions. I know what I do with ideas. I come up with a strategy, then sit down and figure it out, write some code. I end up having to redesign, reconsider, re everything once I know the api, it's strengths, weaknesses. Documentation is helpful and necessary, but not enough. And simple one page articles are helpful for surface knowledge, but getting something to fit exactly how you want takes much more time and effort.
I thought of starting with akonadi, then moving to solid, plasma, and that's as far as I got.
Derek
I watch 100% of my TV with miro.
www.getmiro.com
I don't think that I'd watch the show more than "Maybe once in a while." if it's not a Video Podcast.
Yes, please put it as a video podcast, or you will loose 60-80% of your audience!
As for Flash alternatives -- the problem with them is that Flash is installed on virtually every browser, while there is no alternative you can say the same about
http://giss.tv ?
@LXj
I would not say that flash is installed everywhere KDE can be installed.
I have an iBook running Linux quite perfectly. There is no Flash from Adobe for me.
By the way, KDE 4.1 works nicely for me.
Thanks for all the work you have done
Thanks for all your blog posts that are really easy to understand and really interesting.
I'm trying to figure out which button to press. I regularly check this blog, the dot, and nuno's for kde 4 news. I love KDE 4 and recommend it to others since 4.1. I might describe myself as an enthusiastic power user. I'd love to see KDE news, reviews, and tech; but also video tutorials like your "Mac-like" dashboard activity how to and something like: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/creating-your-first-opera-widget/
applied not only to plasmoids, but other kde hacking projects. I would like to contribute, but am not as smart as I'd like to be when it comes to coding. So I guess I'd like end-user centric content, but also simple, step by step technical stuff as well- I only know a little html and c.
thank you and all who've made KDE4 possible,
( I recently installed it on a Pentium 2, for a non-profit, customized the desktop for their needs and it runs nicely on a P2! )
I don't think a "live" video broadcast will keep audience away, as it can be recorded and converted later to a video podcast, retaining the advantages of both formats.
I selected "once in a while" but just for extremely poor bandwidth.
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