KDE MultiMedia Meeting
NederlandsData: from 26 to 28 May 2006 Location: Achtmaal (community of Zundert)
Multimedia
From the 26th to the 28th of May, an international KDE developer meeting about multimedia will take place in the Annahoeve in the Netherlands. Its aim will be to make the pervasive role of multimedia less of a burden to manage for users and developers.
People experience multimedia every day. Sound and animation are as common as written text. With the advent of more powerfull desktop computers, users want to be able to have the same experience while working at their computer as in real life. They want to play and organize their favorite music, watch a movie, and burn their own CDs and DVDs without having to put great effort into getting the respective applications to work. A professional desktop environment should aim to offer these by default, with good support for the majority of possible hardware configurations, in order to gain a solid user base.
What plans does the multimedia project have?
With the new major KDE release, KDE 4, coming up, the multimedia backend will be largely rewritten. A multimedia system for KDE is being developed wich is to solve a great deal of the problems in the existing, older multimedia parts. This new system will aim for better integration of media frameworks into KDE without locking out other multimedia applications. It will enable developers to easily add multimedia capabilities to their applications, without having to know nor care about the underlying platform.
Why do we organize a meeting?
For the KDE project it is important that developers enjoy their work. With a few exceptions, all developers contribute to KDE in their spare time without being payed for it. In 2005, a KDE-PIM event was organised by KDE Netherlands for contributors to the PIM (Personal Information Management) module, wich was under especially heavy development at that time. A group of developers gathered to discuss ideas, code, and more. The environment, ambiance, and services provided by the Annahoeve made sure that the attendees could focus on the things they came for: discussing, thinking, and creating. Meeting face to face and working together enabled them to lay the groundwork for new innovations. Important improvements to the usability of the PIM applications, notably Kmail, the email client have been made. The email client have been made. The results of last year's meeting proved that it is really worthwhile to organize such a (short) event.
Therefore, in 2006, another event is planned, again at the Annahoeve, this time for the multimedia part of KDE. Multimedia developers worldwide are expected to come together at the end of May and experience the same productivity boost as the PIM developers had in 2005. With a well-organised meeting and the excellent results of last year's meeting still in our mind, we are confident that the KDE MultiMedia Meeting will have a significant impact on multimedia development inside, but also outside, the KDE project.
Contact
For more information about the KDE MultiMedia Meeting, do not hesitate to contact the organising committee, reachable by e-mail viamm-meeting@kde.nl.
Links for further reading
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| The KDE project | http://www.kde.org |
| KDE Netherlands | http://www.kde.nl |
| KDE Multimedia | http://multimedia.kde.org |
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