Debian KDE Extras Team presentation for Akademy

[Mark Purcell]

pkg teams,

Submissions for Akademy papers close today, and I am intending to propose to 
give a presention covering the following on KDE-Extras.

Any comments from the pkg teams are welcome before I send later today.

Mark

To: akademy-talks-2006 at kde.org

The Debian KDE Extras Team would like to propose a presentation at Akademy 
covering the following topics.

The Debian KDE Extras Team maintain a portfolio of extra application packages 
for Debian GNU/Linux outside the KDE core applications. Highlights of th
ese applications in order of Debian popularity (excluding libraries) include; 
kile, kaffeine, kipi-plugins, digikam, kmplayer, knemo, taskjuggler, kmy
money, rsibreak and codeine.

This presentation will include discussion on the following areas:

* Brief overview on some of the key applications

* How KDE packages are incorporated into Debian

* Integration and interaction  with upstream KDE developers

* Debian bug tracking & synchronisation with KDE bug tracking
  -http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=pkg-kde-extras%40lists.alioth.debian.org

* Integration and interaction with (k)ubuntu developers

* svn.debian.org kde-extras archive and potential for non Debian contributers

* Debian Quality Assurance; lintian, kate & buildds for 11 archiectures
   -(alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc)
   -http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=pkg-kde-extras@lists.alioth.debian.org

* Debian Release cycles. What are sid, etch and sarge anyway.

* Debian Popularity Contest and KDE applications

Mark Purcell is an admin for the Debian KDE Extras and Pkg VOIP teams which 
also provides the KDE twinkle & kiax builds for ubuntu and debian distribu
tions. He has been a Debian developer since 2001 and his main Linux interests 
lie in VoIP, digital photography and multimedia applications.