It is late so I’m just going to provide a brief commentary. I most likely won’t get to my notes until this weekend.

First I would like to give a shout out to Aaron Seigo of KDE fame. We hung out today and I can say he is the type of person we need more of in the community. He is energetic, extroverted and shows a passion for life and the community. I’ll be going to aKademy this year if only because he owes me a beer.

I went to the LSB Summit as a GNOME Representative. Here is my immediate reaction to what I heard there.

Things I liked about the LSB:

  • desire to support ISV’s without cannibalizing the community - standards where they make sense as opposed to standards for standards sake
  • open dialog on the issues - I learned a lot including ISV concerns and accessibility issues
  • The ability to be candid with a KDE counterpart and find common ground

Things that scared me at the LSB:

  • Trying to please too many people - Multimedia and printing begin to sound like - If we can’t decide on just one lets support them all. Pick one or pick none and wait until one becomes the clear winner.
  • Portland Print Dialog - Perhaps I don’t understand it since I missed the first printing summit but UI by committee usually ends up in disaster. Where do we stop? Portland file chooser? Portland widget toolkit? Let technologies show up in Portland first then I think it is appropriate to discuss them with the LSB, not the other way around