Hi Martin,
On 09/04/2017 06:00 PM, Martin Flöser wrote: > Am 2017-09-03 23:17, schrieb Sebastian Kügler: >> I do know that there is a good amount of interest >> in the community, but my impression is also that many people are >> playing a waiting game for others to move before they're getting their >> hands dirty. This is something we need to resolve to get the ball really >> rolling. A decent plan and coordination of these effort is definitely >> needed, and this is something we should come up with first. Build and >> they will come. > > *nod* - I absolutely think this is a chicken-egg problem. Due to not > having hardware nobody is interested in doing work and due to not > having software we don't get the hardware. Librem 5 might be just the > push to get out of this loop. What might be needed is getting > development boards early to KDE devs and we need to get the initial > setup story good, so that it's easy to hack on without having to fight > the system (I remember the horror of Nokia's maemo cross compiler) > >>> Now that is said - what suggestion do you have for a meeting around >>> promoting collaboration between Purism and KDE regarding Librem5? >>> Videoconferencing or async via mail? Other tools? I would add to the >>> discussion our CEO, CMO and Director of Creative. >> >> Video would probably work best, a phone conference is also an option. >> Plasma and KDE promo people are mostly in Europe, but I'm sure we can >> make something work, even if it's outside of office hours (I don't >> mind). > > If you need any input from the Wayland stack (e.g. rendering, input) > I'm happy to participate, though that would mean outside of office > hours ;-) (earliest 16 CEST). You should participate for sure as I plan to have Wayland as the only display server we will run (if we can avoid X and all its dependencies, that would be a good thing for all). I will now create a separate thread for the proposal of meeting date. > > Cheers > Martin Z
