Speaker
Description
If we told you there is a company with hundreds of desktops running KDE Plasma? If we also told you they've been using it for more than 10 years? Finally, what if we told you they're in Australia and making wines? Wouldn't you be curious to know more about them and what they think of our software?
Well, good for us they do exist: they are De Bortoli Wines, an Australian winemaking company.
It turns out they became an enioka Haute Couture customer and we developed an interesting relationship. The work they pushed our way has been interesting and challenging. As such this gave us an interesting insight on how KDE software can be used and the constraint such entreprise desktops can encounter.
We ended up looking at application code like Okular, to frameworks like KIO, or even dug deeper exploring issues close to the kernel. This might give ideas of features to prioritize or tests to carry to cater to such users.
If you're interested in the enterprise desktop use case, or if you like to hear about funny bugs and wine labels, this talk will be for you.
watch: https://live.kde.org/playersite_0a5de95e-0f2e-4479-8d59-d0095df9daf0.html
Biography
Kevin Ottens has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence which led him to focus on ontology engineering and multi-agent systems. As a student, he fell in love with the KDE community and has been involved for the past 20 years.
Next to contributing code, he has also been helping with the community stewardship, for instance participating in the creation of the KDE Manifesto.
Nowadays, Kevin strives at enioka Haute Couture having a very wide view on software engineering. His responsibilities range from software architecture and code to Open Source strategies. He also spends time coaching teams and other engineers in leadership positions.
He still lives in Toulouse where he participates to regular C++ meetups.
Social Links
https://ervin.ipsquad.net
https://mamot.fr/@ervin
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