Month of KDE Contributor: From LaKademy …

In recent weeks I had an intense “Month of KDE Contributor” that began with LaKademy, the KDE Latin American Summit, and ended with Akademy, the KDE World Summit. It was a month somewhat tiring, hard work, but it was also filled with good stories, great meetings, new contacts, discoveries and, I can say, fun.

This post I will write about LaKademy and the next I will comment about Akademy.

The second edition of LaKademy took place in São Paulo, one of the biggest cities of Latin America, in FLOSS Competence Center of University of Sao Paulo, an entire building dedicated to studies and researches on various aspects of free software: licenses, software engineering, metrics extracted from repositories, social aspects of collaboration, and more.

This year I and Aracele were the conference organizers, and I believe that we could provide all the infrastructure necessary to LaKademy attendees had good days of work in a pleasant and comfortable places.

First day we had talks of collaborators, and one that most caught my attention was Rafael Gomes on KDE sysadmin. It’s amazing the size of the infrastructure behind the scenes, a solid base that allows developers to do their jobs. It would be interesting to promote more this type of collaboration to attract potential contributors who prefer this side of computing.

This day I presented a talk about Qt in Android, describing the development tools configuration in Linux, presenting a basic Hello World, and commenting on some softwares availables using this technology, specially the VoltAir and GCompris. The presentation is below (in portuguese).

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Second day we had a short-course about Qt, presented by Sandro Andrade. Impressive his didactic and how he manages to hold our attention for a whole day without getting boring or tiring. This day I was helping the other participants, especially those who were having the first contact with Qt development.

The third and fourth days were devoted to application hacking and projects development. I joined in “task-force” to port Bovo to KF5, I started the development of a metapackage to install all KF5 packages in Mageia, and I started the port of Cantor to KF5. I also fixed some KDE Brazil bots on social networks.

Task force to port Bovo to KF5

Fourth day we had a meeting to discuss some initiatives to promote KDE in Latin America, and we started to use Kanboard of KDE TODO to organize the implementation of these projects.

Besides the work we had some moments of relaxation at the event, as when we went to Garoa Hacker Clube, the main hackerspace in São Paulo, an activity we call Konvescote; and also when we all went to Augusta Street, one of the famous bohemian streets in the city.

KDE + Garoa

However, as in all events of Free Software and KDE Brazil, the best thing is see old friends again and meet new ones that are coming to the boat. For the novices, welcome and let’s to do a great work! For the veterans, we still have a good road ahead on this idea of writing free software and give back to the world something of beautiful, high quality technical, that respect the user.

KDE Brazil team wrote an excelent post enumerating what the attendees produced during the event. I suggest to all who still want more information to read that text.

I leave my thanks to KDE e.V. for providing this meeting. I hope to see more contributors in next LaKademy!