#sailfishos-meeting: Sailfish OS, open source, collaboration -- 3rd October 2024

Meeting summary

1. 1. Meeting information and agenda can be found here: (rainemak, 07:00:18)
   2. https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/community-meeting-on-3rd-october-2024/20027 (rainemak, 07:00:18)
   
   
2. Brief introduction (5 min). Please prefix your name/handle with #info (rainemak, 07:00:18)
   1. Otto Mäkelä, community (ExTechOp, 07:00:24)
   2. Damien Caliste, community (dcaliste, 07:00:58)
   3. Raine Mäkeläinen, Jolla (rainemak, 07:01:21)
   4. Crabster - lurker (Crabster, 07:01:29)
   5. Pekka Vuorela, Jolla (pvuorela, 07:01:37)
   6. Matti Viljanen, Jolla (direc85, 07:01:46)
   7. piggz community (piggz[m], 07:02:42)
   
   
3. rewriting of QtMobility plugin providing an engine for QtOrganizer based on mKCal (15 mins -- asked by dcaliste) (rainemak, 07:05:14)
   1. <dcaliste> Like QtContacts used in Sailifsh OS, QtPim (long heir of (rainemak, 07:05:25)
   2. <dcaliste> QtMobility) provides a module to deal with events and todos : (rainemak, 07:05:25)
   3. <dcaliste> QtOrganizer. It provides an API and QML bindings to handle (rainemak, 07:05:25)
   4. <dcaliste> calendar items. It can use several backends for storage. Old (rainemak, 07:05:25)
   5. <dcaliste> sources from QtMobility dated from Qt4.x era still have a plugin (rainemak, 07:05:25)
   6. <dcaliste> based on mKCal (the SQLite backend for calendar event used in (rainemak, 07:05:26)
   7. <dcaliste> Sailfish OS). But these sources are really out-dated, both mKCal (rainemak, 07:05:28)
   8. <dcaliste> and QtOrganizer have largely changed API since Qt4.x era. I’ve (rainemak, 07:05:30)
   9. <dcaliste> decided to rewrite the plugin, so current (or future) code using (rainemak, 07:05:32)
   10. <dcaliste> QtPim/QtOrganizer can have a well debugged SQLite backend, or (rainemak, 07:05:36)
   11. <dcaliste> even share data with an application based on (rainemak, 07:05:38)
   12. <dcaliste> nemo-qml-plugin-calendar (like the calendar application). The new (rainemak, 07:05:40)
   13. <dcaliste> implementation can be found in this git repository 2. The main (rainemak, 07:05:42)
   14. <dcaliste> point of this topic is to announce the existence of this new (rainemak, 07:05:44)
   15. <dcaliste> possibility to handle calendar events and todos. While I’m still (rainemak, 07:05:46)
   16. <dcaliste> preferring to base new developments on the couple KCalendarCore/ (rainemak, 07:05:48)
   17. <dcaliste> mKCal, the community meeting may be the place to discuss the pros (rainemak, 07:05:50)
   18. <dcaliste> and cons of this new possibility based on QtPim. (rainemak, 07:05:52)
   19. <Jolla> Like dcaliste said in the forum, 5 to 15 minutes, depending if there (rainemak, 07:06:22)
   20. <Jolla> is interest to discuss the topic, or if the announcement is just (rainemak, 07:06:22)
   21. <Jolla> enough. This is a good discussion topic for a community meeting. (rainemak, 07:06:22)
   22. <Jolla> Let's see how lively discussion we get. (rainemak, 07:06:22)
   23. sebix, community (sebix[m], 07:07:42)
   
   
4. Open PR discussion (5 mins -- asked by Jolla) (rainemak, 07:25:01)
   
5. General discussion (10 mins) (rainemak, 07:35:06)
   1. There was a great Sailathon organized in Prague last week! Big hand to participants and to karry who afaik mostly organized it (rainemak, 07:37:14)
   2. https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/feedback-on-xperia-10-iv/20113 (rainemak, 07:38:45)
   3. https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/feedback-on-xperia-10-v/20114 (rainemak, 07:38:53)
   4. https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/release-notes-sauna-4-6-0-15/19740#new-devices-4 (rainemak, 07:39:18)
   
   
6. Next meeting time and date (5 mins) (rainemak, 07:45:56)
   1. Next meeting will be held on Thursday 17thd October 2024 at 07:00am UTC: 2024-10-17T0700Z (rainemak, 07:48:37)

Action items

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People present (lines said)

1. rainemak (68)
2. dcaliste (31)
3. pvuorela (12)
4. piggz[m] (6)
5. sailbot (2)
6. ExTechOp (2)
7. direc85 (2)
8. rinigus (2)
9. Crabster (1)
10. sebix[m] (1)
11. Nico (1)