 All right everybody, welcome to the Boff wrap-up session for Academy on Monday, August 13th, 2018. We've got about 100 people here. We had 12 Boff sessions today and so I'm going to ask a representative from every Boff to come up and give a little one minute, two minute summary of what you did today in your Boff. And we're going to start with the Conan Boff, which has Ovidiu's name on it. Have we got any Conan people? All right, no Conan today. I can briefly say that we found out lots of things are awesomely prepared and then complexity hits, so we figured out yes, one Git repository provides several libraries sometimes, so we should split it into several Conan packages so that makes things a bit more complicated, but we might actually end up with something pretty nice and hopefully make building stuff when you're a new contributor much easier and also even actually creating applications and deploying them easier potentially. So yeah, it sounds hopeful but a lot of work is needed. If you have a bit of Python time on your hands, it would be greatly appreciated. All right, thank you Frederic. Next up is the automotive session. Who did automotive? Okay, that is the camera. Last year we worked on identifying the gap between where Katie was back then and what we need to showcase our software in R&D automotive environments. This year that gap is way shorter and we are ready to start working in showcasing Katie's software on small devices on Yocto. So we have been discussing which applications would be interested to showcase. We need something that works on Plasma Mobile that is interesting and also we have been discussing where we can showcase it during the rest of the year up to FOSSTEM next year. So hopefully we will start showcasing Katie's software in embedded and automotive environments this year. Thanks Agustin. Now we're going to move on to the whole day worth of buffs for Katie's gear, products, the Plasma stuff. Dave, please talk about Plasma. Okay, so we had a bunch of different topics. We started with Plasma Mobile. We started with the Plasma Mobile. Mobile. Let's reset the rooftop. This is fine. Okay, so for the Plasma Mobile buff we discussed what is current state. And one of the important points we discussed is how to recruit new members for the Plasma Mobile because currently it's very low on the contributor side. And we basically discussed some more bits about on the technical side, like using bundles on the mobile. And I think the discussions were very useful. So yeah. Then we moved on to some of our Wayland topics, a discussion about screen sharing from Jan Wave. That really worked for your camera. Thank you. Wayland topics, several different protocols for input and screens and scaling. People talk about some of their issues that we need to address. So that came in to giving us a lot of to-dos and not a lot done. After lunch we came back to discuss some more of the long-term bigger picture topics. We discussed the talk that I gave yesterday about moving some parts out of the process and where we go. That came into a lot of good ideas of things to explore and some new discussion points. Afterwards? Afterwards, like both of every single academy since a decade or so, we talked about activities and virtual desktops. So since now we pretty much have to redo the work for the support in Wayland, both for virtual desktop and activities. We are looking about ways to either merge them or make them work better together. Good news is that we will have a virtual desktop spec in Wayland for 5.14. Then after that we'll start to look into activities. An interesting thing is every time we did a little polling of the people that were attending there. Quite some people were using both virtual desktops and activities at the same time for pretty much the same use case. One was using only activities and not virtual desktops. Some other were using only virtual desktops and not activities. But this gave us a bit of a better idea where to go with the architecture. Hopefully in Wayland it will be way more smooth and integrated and beautiful for everybody. The notes will be on the mailing list. Thanks Dave, Bouchan and Marco. Next up in that room there was the HIG, our Human Interface Guidelines. Yeah, the Human Interface Guidelines both. It was organized by Fabian Riedmeier who already had to leave so I will just wrap it up quickly. So we talked about this project that she initiated. We had the HIG in the Wiki but now we have it on a new address at hig.kd.org and you are welcome to visit it. And we talked about how we could improve it in detail. So it's a new format and it's things written now which improves in many aspects of how it was before. So we want to improve it in details more and we got some feedback but we also want to look at the bigger picture of it like how can we see the Human Interface Guidelines maybe now for the next few years in terms of Plasma and Breeze and all the applications and yeah we will discuss this or the designers will discuss this in the VDG meetings tomorrow and you are welcome to join them. Thanks Roman. Moving on we got a promo buff but I guess promo. Promo is probably promowing. Thank you. So in the promo buff today Paul and Ivana talked about everything they did in the year. He showed us a lot of statistics that they pulled from the Twitter, the page views. We talked about how to maintain user engagement, the other drops, what were the spikes. We also talked about how can we engage and that was one of the action items. Teach out to more t-shirts and see how we can get more kitty users there. What else did we discuss? We talked about mentoring programs and how can we do more outreach to the students. We talked about the plans of revamping the website and yeah I think that was about it. Thank you Dvaya. You're half a minute too late Paul to give a summary of your own work but Dvaya has covered for you. Is Camilo around for the Vave? Vave, Vave. Alright Michael please. Tell us about Vave. Camilo held his buff for his Vave multimedia app, a music player basically. In that buff we talked a lot about the focus because he's got very impressive vision, very long reaching scope. He's already got his app working on Kirigami so you can run it on Android today and he's able to show it and demonstrate it. You can run it on a plasma mobile today. You can use Case for that platform and again he showed it on a Nexus 5 running plasma mobile. He's also talking about backend stuffs like SoundCloud and how people can make music together and use free software apps like Wave in order to share that together. Some of the other stuff that we talked about is kind of approaching the intellectual property and copyright issues that are inevitably associated with anything with music nowadays and kind of where the current commercial market has kind of left opportunities for free software to develop like trying to play music on your phone without having you streaming or without an internet connection. So that's kind of the high point. A lot to do and very impressive progress so far. Thanks Michael. Next up is a category you wouldn't, it's hard to believe he's really here and that he's really real. There's the Sysadmin Boff. Thanks Adrian. So in the Sysadmin Boff we had a very productive, if somewhat lengthy discussion about how to handle Sysadmin onboarding as well as going over everything that we currently have in terms of infrastructure. What is easiest to delegate out to members of the community without affecting principles around trust and security of our infrastructure because our data is important and very sacred to us. And we came up with a list of systems and items that could very quickly be broken out which could reduce the load on the Sysadmin team so that we can focus on doing other items and we also came up with a list of other things that could potentially be broken out to in the long run reduce the issues with capacity we have and we also talked to a much lesser extent about the identity revamp and what's necessary to bring that forward and replace the current platform which now is quite dated and has reached into this lifetime. Thank you Ben. Next up is the fabricator Boff. So after migrating to fabricator like two years after, like that has been two years and there were like lots of complaints about fabricator and lots of people hated the fabricator at completely. So that's why I registered essentially this Boff to gather around some actual constructive feedback about what's wrong with the fabricator and how Sysadmin can solve it or possibly forward that discussions to upstream. I actually didn't expect that much audience in my Boff and it turned out that the whole room was completely full. But in the essence we gathered a lot of nice feedback about how... So essentially we gathered a lot of nice feedback of what the communities problems are with the fabricator and we also got solutions for many of the community members' problems right on the Boff. So that's the good. Thanks Bouchan. Also we have the community data and community metrics Boff. Is Kevin around? Otherwise I will give a summary. In the KDE community we've been using the blue blobs for years. The blue blobs have turned green and after that kind of pastel colors it's about measuring the health and the state of our community. We've used these blue blobs, green blobs to take a look at who's contributing and how often and who's busy. It's also a means of detecting when people go away because then you can be concerned. You can say, hey, where have you been? Welcome to your first academy. But there's more to measure in our community than just that and there's more to our lives than just commit messages. So we've been considering what other data sources we can add to the analysis tools and how we can extend the analysis tools to produce more information about how our community works so that when people ask us, hey, how are you doing? We can give a really lengthy factual answer. Alright, that was the community data session. Then Lydia led the community goals retrospective. She's away. Anyone else want to give a summary of the goals session? Is Neofitos here? Then Neofitos, I'm going to stick you with it. So, yeah. The discussion involved around the three goals that was voted. There was a discussion about the privacy goal a bit and how that can evolve that through the years and to integrate it better into what we're doing because there were some suggestions that were not committed enough on that goal. We were discussing a bit about how to think of the goals. How do we plan to end them or maybe how other goals might succeed them in the future and how do we decide that one goal is complete and one is not. We talked a bit more on each goal and what we can do going forward in regards to the onboarding goal and in regards to the usability goal. We shared also some problems we found so far in terms of trying to achieve these goals, what we see, what are the areas we can improve and what are the areas that we did well and we need to continue doing. That's what comes to mind now, actually. And of course it's good to have goals but in the end we need to get our software out there and that's why we had the distro-boff which got all the distros together to talk about our common goals and common issues. Yeah. So in the distro-boff first we had lightning talks introducing nine distros featuring KDE, some smaller ones and some large ones and then we had an hour of discussion where we discussed some of the issues that we are facing together and one big topic was how to deal with bug reports, how to get users to file good bug reports and how to get them upstream when needed because very often they end up sticking around in the downstream distribution bug trackers and another issue was also how to get distribution developers more involved in upstream development. What can we do for that? You want to add anything more? I would just say that a lot of people thought that we were going to fight and instead we're all collaborating. Thanks Kevin. That wraps up the Boff Wrap Up for today. I'll see you all again tomorrow morning at 9.30 for another session of Boffs. Have a good evening.