Speaker
Description
Last year we covered the "KDE Neon Core" effort to bring Plasma on Ubuntu Core. We focused on the work required and the challenges we encountered along the way. We concluded on an upcoming radical change in the system architecture.
This time, we will focus on what changed during the past year. It will be a status update on the system architecture change from a technical perspective.
We will also highlight how this reconfigured our relationships with the Snap ecosystem and KDE Neon itself. The dynamics for managing upgrades on such systems is very different from systems with unconfined sessions. This brings constraints on our own dependency management.
Last but not least, we'll cover some of the broader interest in the KDE ecosystem this effort seems to bring.
If you're curious about the new KDE Neon Core architecture and its outcomes (technical or otherwise), this talk will be for you.
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 more than 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 training teams and coaching other engineers in leadership positions.
He still lives in Toulouse where he participates to regular C++ meetups.
