Frank Karlitschek
KDE Developer
openDesktop.org
KDE-Look.org
KDE-Apps.org
Social Desktop
Open-PC
ownCloud

Project
Bretzn

We are
developers
(most of us)

free
Cool
software

What motivates us ?
millions use our
software
(and other reasons)

Make the life of the
developers as easy as
possible to bring the
software to the users.

How does it work at the
moment ?
• Develop the application
• Cross compile and package for all platforms
• Put it on a webpage
• Promote it on blogs, twitter, facebook, conferences, ...
• Try to put it in a distribution
• Wait 8 month
• Hope that someone is using your stuff
• Collect the bugs and feedback from the users
• Go to square one for the next release.

my dream:
do everything
in 10 minutes
development takes probably a bit longer

Project Bretzn
1. Make it easy for developers to release
an application
2. Make it easy for users to install the
applications

Building
• Qt Creator Plugin
• Integration with buildservices
• OBS and MeeGo and hopefully more in the future
• Cross compilation and packaging
• 1.0 released.

Publishing
• Uploading to different AppStores and repos automatically
• MeeGo Garage
• openDesktop.org
• openSUSE AppStore
• Nokia Ovi, Intel AppUp and more in the future.

Marketing
• Mailinglists
• RSS
• Twitter
• identi.ca
• Facebook
• KDE Social Desktop.

everything with
1 Click
or a few more ;-)

Video

Make it easy for users to install
the applications

App Store client to access the
application repositories via an open API

Good news
4 App Store Client
• Qt only client
• MeeGo Garage Client
• KDE GHNS Client
• KDE Installer

Features
• Categories
• Screenshots
• Description
• Changelog
• Comments
• Ratings
• Search
• Sorting
• Updating.

Social Features
• Notification directly to the Desktop
• What my friends like
• What my friends develop
• Knowledge Base.

Open-Collaboration-Services
• free specification (freedesktop.org)
• free server and client implementations
• Social Features
• Version 1.6
• Version 2.0 is in the works
• Developer Meeting this weekend
• Supported by Intel, Nokia, OpenOffice.org, KDE, partly GNOME.

Open-Collaboration-Services
Modules:
• Person
• Friend
• Message
• Activity
• Content
• Fan
• Knowledgebase
• Event
• Comments
• Private Data
• Forum
• Buildservice

What about other Desktops ?

Future
• Links to IRC channels, forums, ...
• Show commits of my friends
• User testing
• File bugs
• Donations for developers.

Summary
• Developers can concentrate on coding
• In 10 minutes from the IDE to the App Store

Application
Developer User

Questions ?

Thank you
Frank Karlitschek
karlitschek@kde.org
blog.karlitschek.de
twitter.com/fkarlitschek