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Get ready for Qt Contributor Summit!
With only roughly over five weeks to go, QtCS 2012 is approaching fast on the event horizon (pun absolutely intended). During the TiZen Developer Conference, Quim Gil and I, with help from Robin Burchell, found time to work on a draft, the result being visible in the QtDev wiki. Don’t be scared by the amount of pre-scheduled sessions, we will try to keep it as unconference-y as possible. However this allows us to properly prepare selected sessions.
Please keep in mind that QtCS 2012 is invite-only.
Session presenters, prepare!
If you are a maintainer of a Qt Essentials module, then you will have to drive one of the pre-scheduled sessions.
It might be a good idea to start writing a report about what happened in your area over the last couple of months, and where you plan to take your module for the Qt 5.1 release. Attendees of your session will probably expect you to talk about Qt 5 migration and how it will affect code using your module. On top of that, the most urgent bugs might get discussed, along with new feature requests, so please be prepared.
If you find a topic that isn’t showing up in the program yet, consider to get in touch with other interested folks (the Qt development mailing list or #qt IRC channel are good places to ask). With sufficient feedback, you should have everything it needs to drive the session yourself!
Plenary sessions
The first day will start with the State of the Union session about Qt 5 and Qt 5.1, summarizing where we are and where do we want to go with the Qt project.
The second day is about betting on Qt Quick, covering topics such as theming, platform integration and cross-platform. We want to invite the maintainers and a few vendors/users/contributors to expose their thoughts and needs with the hope of bringing a common understanding.
For the last day, we have a special surprise, as the topic will be HTML5 & the web. I am aware that this will raise a lot of controversy among the community, but it is an area where we need to find answers. With all the latest interest in web technologies, the answer can no longer be “We don’t do web”. That’s what killed the dinosaurs, remember? Then again, Qt already has better answers then that, so it’s about time for a fierce but honest panel discussion, including the Qt WebKit maintainers and other users/contributors driving this area.
Hack'n'Tell
Of course we also want to you to feel entertained during the summit, which is why we want to try out Hack'n'Tell sessions.
The rules are simple: Show us a cool hack involving Qt. You got 5 minutes. No slides.
I realize that preparing cool hacks takes some time, which is the original intent for this blog post: to announce the Call for Cute Hacks. For the first day at least, it would be great to have a couple of presenters before the summit starts. For the other days, I kind of hope that the summit itself will spark great ideas and demos that need to be shown immediately.
I hope I got you excited a bit, so let’s make QtCS 2012 an event to remember!
