This week's Luminosity of Free Software show will be recorded tomorrow on Friday, instead of the usual Thursday time slot. I have another engagement tonight, and it will be interesting to see how viewership changes, if at all, on Fridays.
Topics tomorrow will include:
- Plasma Media Center: .. or "PMC" as we lovingly refer to it, had its first stable release this week We'll take a peek behind the scenes to see what drives it. We'll also glance at it's goals, purpose and future.
- freedesktop.org Summit: If you haven't heard of this event that's happening in three weeks time, don't feel bad as it wasn't announced very broadly at all. I'll share with you what I've learned about the event and speculate on what we can hope to come from it.
- Lernstick: Not just "Bootable Linux on a USB device", but also a log in key that can automatically create the user on the stick and mount the USB device as the home directory. Pulling this off is trickier than one might think. I'll examine how this device designed for schools works as well as look at where it is in use today.
- Q&A: Otherwise known as "chaotic happy fun time" in which you ask questions and I do my best to foment further discussion. :)
See you there on Google+ Hangout tomorrow (Friday) at 20:00 UTC. You can watch the live feed (assuming all that magical hangout stuff decides to work) or afterwards at your leisure on my Youtube channel. I watch the chats in G+, Youtube as well as in #luminosity on irc.freenode.net during the show. Ask questions and offer additional information there.
3 comments:
Hi Aaron,
Another quick question: Are there any developers looked at bringing plasma to Raspberry Pi, in particular plasma media centre?
It would be nice if this was investigated, because despite all efforts, I find interfaces on modern televisions intolerably difficult to use. And jokes apart my parents didn't even know what was the pause button was on a remote who are scared of the complexities of anything technical, so I assume there is an underlying problem in this area.
Understandably you've stated the team's priorities previously; so I won't ask for a complex discussion.
It would be just nice to hear if this may have been brought up in discussions beforehand.
Huge Thanks!
Luke Parry
I was wondering if kde was interested in doing a papercut list. Ie. Being able rename a sd memory card from dolphin
HI Aaron,
Thanks for your Luminosity episodes. You spoke the other week about forking, and looking at libre office its in a really strong position.
What do you think is the difference in this fork and say that of the forks of KDE and Gnome?
Just a quick look at the trinity website and it was last updated in Nov 12, but Gnome forks appear to be doing quite well.
What is the tipping point do you think that means that some forks work and some whither?
Thanks for your time
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