Appeal : 0.2

Tomorrow a small batch of us will congregate in northwest Germany for the second Appeal meeting.

There's been quite a buzz around the subproject since the first meeting at Easter this year. Most folks know that it's an intentionally small focus group for usability and visual design and a small number of new technologies in KDE (mostly those that are applicable to usability and visual design) and well, that's the gist of things. For me the most interesting part is having a group where the contributors from those previously mostly divergent efforts are put together and are working as a team. I summed up some of those thoughts (though not directly connected to Appeal) in a previous entry.

But what I'm hoping to come away from the meeting with is a more concrete definition of the group -- the specific things that we're targeting, who's doing what, etc. We've talked a fair amount about such since the Easter meeting and I feel like we've got the raw material sorted out, now it's a matter of moving that from a collection of information to something useful and smoothing out the differences in opinion along the way and then communicating that to the larger KDE community.

Here's hoping we pull it off. More soon. ;-)