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2009-09-09 Lumiera Developers Meeting
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Raffaella_Traniello_and_Hermann_Voßeler <prg@ichthyostega.de>
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Sep 9, 2009 on +#lumiera+ +
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^20:00 - 22:30 UTC^
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.Participants
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- cehteh
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- ichthyo
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- joelholdsworth
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- andrewjames
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- daniieel
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- hermanr
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- liveD
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- raffa
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- SimAV
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Point 1: FrOSCon
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Our participation to the conference was a success. We met other video
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developers and people interested in Lumiera.
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It has been a meeting opportunity for the community, it produced good and
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reusable propaganda material (about 100 flyers distributed).
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This success wouldn't be possible without a lot of people helping. +
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So lets say: *Thank you all*!
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We plan to be there again next year with another Lumiera meeting (possibly
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all the 3 core devs present). _Ichthyo_ consideres to do a dedicate talk
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(in German).
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Participation as a group to other possible events has been considered for +
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(in order of interest):
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LAC, Piksel, OVC, Piksel Summer camp, Linuxtag, FSCONS.
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To improve visibility _liveD_ proposes to extend the project also on the
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new social network like facebook. +
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The proposal is discussed but doesn't find supporters.
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Point 2: Funding
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Preparing for FrOSCon had some costs, paid by the people working in
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Lumiera. Ideally, _cehteh_ says, people working on Lumiera should not have
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to pay for working on it, no matter who pays.
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He proposes to make a project partnership with FFIS (a German non-profit
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organisation for founding free software).
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That means we could officially collect donations through FFIS (people
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donate to FFIS, to free software in general or specifically to Lumiera).
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That could work out well for specific scopes, like covering travel,
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lodging and diet for developer gatherings or for exhibition material and
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server.
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The proposal is accepted. _Cehteh_ will contact FFIS to propose them a partnership.
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If later on there will be funding for development (not just covering expenses)
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that would require a different approach and special communication with the
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community.
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_daniieel_ proposes to put a price to each request in "buglist". +
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The proposal is discussed and dismissed.
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Point 3: Website
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The news in the homepage makes the project look alive. But this is not
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enough to communicate the state of the Lumiera development. Two
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solutions are proposed:
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* The website needs to be reorganized and made accessible. andrewjames
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volunteers to work on it.
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* Quarterly development news will be published in the devel section of the
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website. The devs will post drafts to the mailing list and encourage the
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other devs to add their informations. Then someone shall aggregate this
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and make a news webpage. That creates a new task: help collecting the
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news and write them together.
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The devs will communicate their achievements more often in small steps
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to the mailing list
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_raffa_ proposes monthly news on the homepage with more broad topics
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(development, community, openvideo). +
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The proposal gets no interest.
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Point 4: Ticket Query clean-up
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Trac allows for creation of custom ticket queries. We've accumulated quite some
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custom reports, and _cehteh_ asks if some of them can be dropped (Ticket #225).
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_Ichthyo_ points out that he uses some reports frequently, and considers some
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others nice-to-have. Finally it turns out that only Report #5 isn't used by
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anyone and can be dropped.
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_Cehteh_ points out that the https://issues.lumiera.org/tags[TracTags] macro
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is a convenient feature -- for example it allows to tag tickets by required skill.
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Point 5: Coding
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_Cehteh_ finished a first stable NoBug release and intends to give uWiki a boost
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in the next weeks. _Ichthyo_ worked on a command frontend usable at the GUI/Proc
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interface; in the next time, there will be some integration work to be done
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together with _Joelholdsworth_ to get the GUI and high-level model connected.
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A short discussion about the relevance of uWiki for Lumiera follows. Indeed,
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it takes away some developer power, and _Joelholdsworth_ is concerned about that,
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as the project is a bit underpowered generally. _Cehteh_ on the contrary considers
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building a suitable (distributed) infrastructure as an important part of the
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project.
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