{"id":1320,"date":"2006-05-28T23:31:19","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/kde-4-multimedia-meeting-done\/"},"modified":"2006-05-28T23:31:19","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T21:31:19","slug":"kde-4-multimedia-meeting-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/kde-4-multimedia-meeting-done\/","title":{"rendered":"KDE 4 Multimedia Meeting :: Done!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Getting<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tSo the KDE 4 Multimedia meeting is finished with only minor casualties. Leinir missed his train
\nand will be back here soon to spend another night in the beautiful village of Zundert – not
\ncompletely voluntarily though. We will give it another try to send him back home to Denmark
\ntomorrow. Today finally the sun showed up, resulting in a nice set of photos of the wild
\npeacocks<\/a> that are living in the neigbourhood of the Annahoeve.
\n\tOne of the first things that grabbed our attention this morning was Gábor announcing that
\nthe Qt4 port of amaroK actually started.
\n\tMatthias told me that he redesigned the core of Phonon to make some neat introspection features
\navailable. We also discussed some vague use cases for Phonon which really showed why Phonon is an
\nincredibly good idea, and that a simple audio \/ video backend such as GStreamer just doesn’t cut it:
\nImagine you’re listening to music while surfing the web. Then you’re clicking on a link playing a
\nvideo file embedded in a website, your music volume will be lowered so your the sound of the movie
\nfile, the movie file finishes playing and the music volume increases again – all done automatically.
\nI’m obviously really looking forward to all that goodness.
Allan who already left earlier this
\nafternoon showed us that seeking in KIO does actually work already for KIO file. That will make a
\nwealth of new stuff possible, I’m imagining running amaroK with your music collection on a remote
\nmachine (and then of course playing your files using Phonon’s NMM backend outputting the music to a
\nremote machine), using digikam with the photo collection on a remote machine …<\/p>\n

\tAll in all, the meeting has exceeded all our expectations by far. Not only have we seen a wealth
\nof new stuff going into svn (check Danny
\nAllen’s latest svn digest<\/a>, for example). We were able to offer the developers the possibility to
\nmeet each other in person, to exchange ideas that are not easily communicated via the Internet. The
\nnetwork effects of the meeting are not measurable, but probably even more important than the code
\nthat has actually been written, improved (or killed, such as the sexb^W eeh moodbar that’s gone
\nbecause it was unmaintained). We were also able to get the amaroK developers integrated more into
\nthe KDE community, probably another thing that’s not measurable but a long-term important thing.<\/p>\n

The concept of making an event possible where everything is taken care of – from
\nquality food to travel expenses, computers for those that don’t own a laptop, a great location,
\ninformation material and above all a friendly host<\/a> who is
\ncontributing in a very unique way to our project: Thanks Cees and José!<\/p>\n

\tTonight, after having dinner in a Wok restaurant where you could compile your own wok meal and
\nhave it prepared right in front of your eyes we couldn’t resist and hooked up our notebooks onto the
\nrandom neighbour’s access point again and read blogs, comments on dot stories, e-mail and of course
\nwrite a blogentry after a terrific and very special and productive KDE event.
Paraphrasing<\/a> our good friend<\/a>:
\n\tI love this community.<\/strong>\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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