Regularly, to add spice to a story, or to simplify the landscape of the
free software world for people who are used to the commercial way of
doing things, projects like KDE and GNOME are presented as being in
competition, and in conflict.
while there is an element of friendly rivalry between many projects,
there are ways in which free software projects collaborate which are
little known, and which shatter the myth of conflict.
This collaboration happens in software projects such as those hosted by
freedesktop.org, conferences like the Libre Graphics Meeting, GUADEMY,
the Desktop Architects Meetings and FOSTEL, and mailing lists like
Create and Foundations on fd.o.
In this presentation, I will show some of the ways in which projects
have collaborated, with occasionally surprising results.
