[Ocs] Meeting Proposal: OCS Next Sprint Review

[Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail]

+1 :D

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Laszlo,
>
> Sorry for not being more active. I was super busy with other stuff. An Irc meeting and a sprint are very good ideas. I'm offline the next 2 because I'm on vacation. Anything afterwards is fine.
> Looking forward to make our 2.0 plans happen :-)
>
> Cheers
> Frank
>
>
> On 04.03.2012, at 11:04, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey there :)
>>
>> As you may already know, few of us, and actually more and more
>> projects are still interested in the second major version of the Open
>> Collaboration Services Standard, which is very impressive and awesome.
>> Meanwhile, having a wiki page or git repository setup for the draft is
>> a nice step, I believe, it is even better to have a focused and
>> coordinated meeting on the topic where we can revisit the ideas we
>> figured out at the sprint [1] last year. There are, of course, new
>> members in our community, thus the review would be welcome from those
>> people, and also, if they have further ideas for improvements.
>>
>> I have already discussed my idea with some of you about a potential
>> IRC meeting. Unfortunately, it is not a personal experience with each
>> other as the excellent one we had in Berlin last year, but I think it
>> is a good boost. I am personally unsure whether we would be able to
>> obtain financial support for a face to face meeting again, or just
>> find the time ourselves for the traveling and coordinating all the
>> neccesary practicalities for that (albeit, if you think that is a
>> better option, I can try to find the time for organizing one).
>>
>> Hence my proposal (I know it sounds a bit strange, but please bear with me):
>> What about an IRC meeting at some weekend, preferrably a dedicated
>> Saturday, either in the second half of March or the first half of
>> April ? I would not personally like to postpone this happening too
>> much (ie. months), if possible. Unfortunately, it does not work for me
>> earlier because of the upcoming Plasma Active 3 Sprint and the
>> post-activities of that event.
>>
>> My plans would be for this meeting, in a nutshell:
>> 1) Get as many contributors as possible around this standard to build
>> a nice community which can sustain itself later.
>> 2) Obviously, review the points we made about a RESTful Standard at
>> the previous Sprint :), and more importantly: get them written into a
>> draft format on some public page.
>> 3) Distribute standard editing tasks, due to the enumerated ideas, to
>> the participants.
>> 4) Clearly define the strategy for trying to make client side
>> implementation(s), like an add-on Qt5 module (which I, for instance,
>> would love to deal with), python, php implementation and so forth.
>> 5) Clearly define the strategy for trying to make server side
>> implementetation(s), like getting python, php and so forth,
>> contributors.
>>
>> I have also further ideas, like marketing around the Standard and
>> collecting potential clients for getting involved in the loop.. Also,
>> the testing of the API itself that Henri was pushing previously, and
>> so forth, but any good kick-off meeting would be brilliant, at least
>> in my opinion. =)
>>
>> What do you think, especially Frank ?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Laszlo Papp
>>
>> [1] http://dot.kde.org/2011/05/18/open-collaboration-services-next-sprint
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