Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-04-19 Thread Paul Brown
Hello Carl, Promotion-wise it makes sense. We always have difficulty explaining and, hence, making the general public feel excited about the new versions of Plasma, as the concept of "desktop environment" is a concept that escapes (and bores) most people. But promoting a bunch of new apps, and

Re: Help KDE apps comply with FlatHub's new guidelines

2024-04-12 Thread Paul Brown
ate and find > more people to help with this? Sounds good too. Cheers Paul > > > - Adam > > W dniu 11.04.2024 o 21:36, Paul Brown pisze: > > On Thursday 11 April 2024 20:38:19 CEST Andy B wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM Paul Brown wrote: > >>&

Re: Help KDE apps comply with FlatHub's new guidelines

2024-04-11 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday 11 April 2024 20:38:19 CEST Andy B wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 9:32 AM Paul Brown wrote: > > On Thursday 11 April 2024 14:44:00 CEST Andy B wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 7:15 AM Paul Brown wrote: > > > > Dear Fellow Community Members, > &

Re: Help KDE apps comply with FlatHub's new guidelines

2024-04-11 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday 11 April 2024 14:44:00 CEST Andy B wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 7:15 AM Paul Brown wrote: > > Dear Fellow Community Members, > > > > FlatHub is changing how it will display apps on its site and has issued > > guidelines to help project maintainers adap

Help KDE apps comply with FlatHub's new guidelines

2024-04-11 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Fellow Community Members, FlatHub is changing how it will display apps on its site and has issued guidelines to help project maintainers adapt the look and descriptions of their apps to FlatHub's new design and layout:

Re: Let's welcome Nicole, the project lead and event manager in a new KDE Eco project

2024-04-03 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 3 April 2024 15:43:19 CEST Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote: > Hi everyone, let's welcome Nicole Teale to KDE! > > Nicole is the Project Lead and Event Manager for the newly-funded > "Sustainable Software For Sustainable Hardware" project in the KDE Eco > initiative. > > She will

What have the Promo contractors been up to? Weeks 11 & 12 2024 - Chocolate Eggs and Easter Bunnies Special

2024-03-26 Thread Paul Brown
Dear fellow community members, Unfortunately, the calm after the storm (yes, I know the saying is "before the storm" - bear with me) never came, and for a few weeks after the mega-release, social media was wall to wall with bug reports. Some of us (me) are not technically savvy enough to solve

Re: Post-MegaRelease projects

2024-02-23 Thread Paul Brown
On Friday, 23 February 2024 09:49:18 CET David Redondo wrote: > libei What is this, David? -- Promotion & Communication www: https://kde.org Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity LinkedIn:

Re: KDE Contributor Niccolo Ve @niccolove Violates KDE’s Code of Conduct

2024-02-15 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 15 February 2024 08:21:58 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 9:50 AM Paul Brown wrote: > > On Wednesday, 14 February 2024 19:44:55 CET Johnny Jazeix wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > the Community Working Group (ht

Re: KDE Contributor Niccolo Ve @niccolove Violates KDE’s Code of Conduct

2024-02-14 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 14 February 2024 19:44:55 CET Johnny Jazeix wrote: > Hi, > > the Community Working Group (https://community.kde.org/CWG) handles these > kind of topics, you should discuss the subject with them. Hi, I agree with Nate. No need to bother any KDE WG or team. This (entirely made up)

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 5 & 6 2024 - Saint Valentine's Day Special

2024-02-13 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, Our main focus is still making as much noise as possible about the upcoming Megarelease at the end of this month, but we are also working on several other things simultaneously, not least of which are requests for support at events. At this moment, we are working on supporting KDE

Re: Fwd: KDE Plasma

2024-02-01 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 1 February 2024 10:22:12 CET Carl Schwan wrote: > Forwarding this nice message we got in the kde-www mailing :) > > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: KDE Plasma > Date: Thursday, February 1, 2024, 7:40:11 AM CET > From: ben elliott > To: kde-...@kde.org > >

Re: [GSoC] org applications open from 22 January - 6 February (deadline at 18:00 UTC)

2024-01-30 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 13:59:50 CET Carl Schwan wrote: > On Tuesday, January 23, 2024 12:22:14 PM CET Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote: > > == GSoC 2024 == > > > > It is time to start discussing among your teams what ideas will be great > > to have for GSoC this year and who is willing to

Re: Academic Research Project

2024-01-26 Thread Paul Brown
to Joseph Veaugh-Geiss (on CC), who is in charge of Community Relations. Joseph will have insights of his own you will find useful, and also contacts that will help you in your research. Lots of luck! Regards Paul Brown -- Promotion & Communication www: https://kde.org Mastodon: h

FOSDEM Booth Staff Needed!

2024-01-15 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Community, If you are planning on attending FOSDEM, please consider helping out at the KDE booth! https://phabricator.kde.org/T17027 Booth work can be tiring, but it is a lot of fun and a fundamental part of helping people discover KDE. Besides, we have a lot of interesting stuff to

Re: SCALE 21x talk looking for NA KDE speaker

2024-01-12 Thread Paul Brown
Hi Community, We are sorting this out off-list with people in the US Network in the area and how will be attending SCALE anyway. That said, if you live in or around LA and would like to speak at the event, please let us know and join the Network at

Re: SCALE 21x talk looking for NA KDE speaker

2024-01-11 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 11 January 2024 21:54:21 CET Joshua Goins wrote: > Hello KDE, > > One of the speakers of the "Where Does the Linux Desktop Go from Here?" talk > at SCALE 21x are looking for speakers from KDE. The conference takes place > in Western North America at a venue in California, so keep

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 51 & 52 2023

2024-01-09 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, A bit late this time, but you know: winter holidays are a bit chaotic. Before we get into it, please note we are full tilt in the organisation of KDE's booth at FOSDEM. If you are going to this event and would like to help, please check out the task:

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 45, 46, 47 & 48 2023

2023-12-06 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, Apologies for missing the last one. Don't know what happened there. Either way, this one has double the stuff, so double the fun, eh? What follows are the Promo highlights for weeks 45, 46, 47 and 48 2023. Enjoy. --- ### Things done * Added plugin to modify the quality of

Plasma 6 new logo poll

2023-12-05 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Community Members, We have trimmed down all the proposals from KDE aficionados for the new Plasma logo taken from here: https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-about-a-new-logo-for-plasma-6/6206 to 6 (you know: as in Plasma _6_) and made a poll to determine the all time favourite. If you would

Re: KDE's 6th Megarelease release parties

2023-12-05 Thread Paul Brown
On Monday, 4 December 2023 23:11:11 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Hello Community! > > Those of you old enough probably remember that we used to have release > parties when we did releases, but that died down a while ago. > > With the upcoming KDE's 6th Megarelease we have upon us the greatest

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 43 & 44, 2023

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, What follows are the Promo highlights for weeks 43 and 44 of 2023. Enjoy. --- ### Things done * Started *Branding Brief and Guidelines* project to help clarify what we want from our branding and what it should look like * Helped promo contributor start "Off-Theme" series, hosting

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 39 & 40, 2023

2023-10-10 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, What follows are the Promo highlights for weeks 39 and 40 of 2023. Enjoy. --- ### Things done * Sent Quarterly Newsletter to Donors * Worked on Advisory Board meetings' slides * Helped produce and promoted "KDE for students": https://kde.org/for/students/ * Started work on sprint

Today is Promo's Monthly Data Day

2023-10-04 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Community, Today is our monthly data day. (We also have a quarterly data day for FB, which is today too; and we also have a weekly data day, but that is tomorrow, and happens every Thursday). On the fourth of each month, we collect tables of data from the likes of Xitter, LinkedIn.

Re: [discussion] archiving and retiring the Dot

2023-10-03 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 23:04:12 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dimarts, 3 d’octubre de 2023, a les 22:01:26 (CEST), Paul Brown va > > escriure: > > On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 20:30:51 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > El dimarts, 3 d’octubre de 2023, a les 19:18:

Re: [discussion] archiving and retiring the Dot

2023-10-03 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 3 October 2023 20:30:51 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dimarts, 3 d’octubre de 2023, a les 19:18:37 (CEST), Paul Brown va > > escriure: > > Hello, > > > > > That is not correct, Akademy makes a huge use of the dot for sharing > >

Re: [discussion] archiving and retiring the Dot

2023-10-03 Thread Paul Brown
Hello, > That is not correct, Akademy makes a huge use of the dot for sharing info to > the wider community > > You can see this by looking at the articles on https://dot.kde.org/ But that reasoning is a bit weird, no? I am reading "There are many Akademy articles on the dot because Akademy

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 35 & 36, 2023

2023-09-28 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, A bit later this time, as we have had an intense beginning of the week. What follows are the Promo highlights for weeks 33 and 34 of 2023. Enjoy. --- ### Things done * We held a two-day Sprint on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th of September and covered the following topics *

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 33 & 34, 2023

2023-08-29 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, What follows are the Promo highlights for weeks 33 and 34 of 2023. Enjoy. --- ### Things done * Meeting with Pedro Besa (Qt Group) provided feedback about the meetup and discussed possible collaborations. * Started and promoted the KDE Network in Mexico. * Collected and made

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:04:04 CEST Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 16:55:25 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > > Postponing the deadline is not ideal, since there always will be people > > > jumping out saying "Why wasn't I told" "Was it discussed before" again > > > and again.

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 23 August 2023 13:56:13 CEST Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: > On 23.8.2023 14.24, Paul Brown wrote: > > A lot fo good ideas we can use to reach a compromise, but this ... > > > >> KDE members are of course free to participate in discussions anywhere > &g

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Brown
Dear All, Sorry for being a pain in the neck about this, but the more I read the plan to migrate, the less it seems a plan at all. It just boils down to a deadline. There is no contingency, nobody has considered what the people who use Telegram to interact with us want, nobody has opened any

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Paul Brown
A lot fo good ideas we can use to reach a compromise, but this ... > KDE members are of course free to participate in discussions anywhere > they want, but loading KDE resources (sysadmin team & machines) with all > possible proprietary network doesn't seem a priority for me. ...  By that

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-22 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 22 August 2023 22:08:34 CEST Albert Vaca Cintora wrote: > KDE Connect has a Telegram group with 660 members (vs 100 on matrix). I > don't know if we are the exception It's not. Kdenlive is another example where most users on both the Spanish and English channels are largely on

Re: The KDE Network Mexico

2023-08-18 Thread Paul Brown
On Friday, 18 August 2023 09:55:23 CEST aniqa.khok...@kde.org wrote: > Dear Community, > > We are starting the KDE Network in Mexico > (https://community.kde.org/The_KDE_Network) to support and promote KDE > within the region. > > Juan Carlos Quiroz (also copied in this email) is part of the

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 31 & 32, 2023

2023-08-15 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, What follows are the Promo highlights for weeks 31 to 32 of 2023. Enjoy. --- ### Things done * Wrote, published MBition sponsor announcement. Waiting for approval for publishing and posting from MBition * Wrote short guide for the creation of more GCompris tutorial videos * Worked

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 29 & 30, 2023

2023-08-01 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, What follows are the Promo highlights for weeks 29 to 20 of 2023. Enjoy. --- ### Things done * Wrote, published and promoted Akademy 2023 report * Worked with Linux Magazin (GY) to get LAS video talks on their DVD * Helped out LabPlot with new tutorial videos: transferred to

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks 27 & 28, 2023

2023-07-20 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, As mentioned during the KDE e.V. report session at Akademy, the Promo contractors submit a work report to our handler on the Board (Nate) every two weeks. There is usually nothing confidential in these reports, therefore, for the sake of transparency, we see no reason we should not

What are the Promo contractors up to? Weeks

2023-07-20 Thread Paul Brown
Hello All, As mentioned during the KDE e.V. report session at Akademy, the Promo contractors submit a work report to our handler on the Board (Nate) every two weeks. There is usually nothing confidential in these reports, therefore, for the sake of transparency, we see no reason we should not

Re: Telegram <-> Matrix bridges will be removed in September

2023-06-13 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 08:53:48 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Monday, 12 June 2023 21:24:03 BST Paul Brown wrote: > > 2. Shutting down the bridges, especially so soon and without a prior > > warning > Hi > > Just a quick reply to this for now > > As Paul is aware

Telegram <-> Matrix bridges will be removed in September

2023-06-12 Thread Paul Brown
Hello, This weekend, members of KDE España asked me to start requesting bridges for some of their Telegram channels. When I sent the request, I was informed that there will be no new bridges set up between Telegram channels and Matrix, and that all currently existing bridges will be removed in

Re: Welcoming Natalie Clarius as KDE e.V.'s Hardware Integrator

2023-04-01 Thread Paul Brown
Hello Natalie and welcome! This is very exciting! Can't wait to hear about all the new KDE-powered devices and promoting them to the world. Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter:

Re: Free booth - FOSSASIA Singapore (13-15 April)

2023-03-30 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 30 March 2023 13:33:59 CEST Tomaz Canabrava wrote: > The problem is that the air tickets are really expensive but this is > something that I would love to go. > We are looking for people close to the venue, like in Singapore itself, or Malaysia... We cannot afford to send someone

Re: Welcoming Nicolas Fella, KDE e.V.'s new Software Platform Engineer

2023-02-14 Thread Paul Brown
Great news! Welcome Nicolas to the grind. Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde

Re: State of Open Con 2023 review

2023-02-09 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 9 February 2023 17:27:36 CET Rohan Garg wrote: > Hi Hello Rohan, First of all, thanks for doing this! > I've just wrapped up attending State of Open Con 2023 and thought I'd > share my thoughts with the community while they're still fresh. Great idea. We'll copy it over as a

Re: Mailing list for people involved in Linux distributions

2023-02-02 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 2 February 2023 11:50:56 CET Harald Sitter wrote: > We already have a distro list. Nobody uses it xD > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions Ah! Right. Ignore me, please. Thanks! > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 12:51 PM Paul Brown wrote: > &g

Re: Mailing list for people involved in Linux distributions

2023-02-01 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 1 February 2023 11:29:41 CET Anna (cybertailor) Vyalkova wrote: > Distro people! > > We're starting a mailing list for coordinating on cross-distro problems, > "fire of the week", anything which needs - or would benefit from - > distributions speaking to each other. > > Example

Re: Retirement of Drupal 7/8 sites (kdevelop, skrooge, blogs, behindkde)

2023-01-15 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 15 January 2023 19:50:54 CET Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Sonntag, 15. Januar 2023 18:34:50 CET Paul Brown wrote: > > On Sunday, 15 January 2023 16:24:48 CET Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > > On Sonntag, 15. Januar 2023 08:04:18 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > > For bl

Re: Retirement of Drupal 7/8 sites (kdevelop, skrooge, blogs, behindkde)

2023-01-15 Thread Paul Brown
Thanks, but we already know what we want. Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde

Re: Retirement of Drupal 7/8 sites (kdevelop, skrooge, blogs, behindkde)

2023-01-15 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 15 January 2023 16:24:48 CET Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Sonntag, 15. Januar 2023 08:04:18 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > > For blogs.kde.org, I am in two minds as to the best approach here, with > > Wordpress and Hugo both appearing as candidates for this site. > > Opinions welcome, especially

Re: Retirement of Drupal 7/8 sites (kdevelop, skrooge, blogs, behindkde)

2023-01-15 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 15 January 2023 10:33:06 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:21 PM Paul Brown wrote: > > On Sunday, 15 January 2023 08:04:18 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > For some time now it has been known to us that the upgr

Re: Retirement of Drupal 7/8 sites (kdevelop, skrooge, blogs, behindkde)

2023-01-15 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 15 January 2023 08:04:18 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > For some time now it has been known to us that the upgrade path from one > given Drupal major version to the next is usually a very difficult road > with lots of breakage involved. > The conversion from Drupal 7 or 8 to

Re: KDE at the State of Open Con

2023-01-13 Thread Paul Brown
On Saturday, 14 January 2023 00:36:45 CET Aleix Pol wrote: > Dear community, > We have recently been reached out about the possibility to have a KDE > booth in the State of Open Con [1]. It seems like a good conference to > be a part of but since we are short in time, we figured we'd ask the >

Re: discourse testing

2023-01-01 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 1 January 2023 11:52:54 CET Harald Sitter wrote: > I'm actually not sure what that is about. Maybe Carl knows? > > On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 2:40 PM Grzegorz Szymaszek wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When trying to register, I’ve got the Email, Username and Name filled > > out from (most

Re: discourse testing

2022-12-30 Thread Paul Brown
On Friday, 30 December 2022 12:12:42 CET Harald Sitter wrote: > Hello my dearies, > > at last; the day has come! We are testing discourse as new forum > software. Best. Xmas present. ever. -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde Facebook:

End of Year Fundraiser

2022-11-25 Thread Paul Brown
Hello, This week we kicked-off KDE's End of Year fundraiser campaign with a bit of joke playing on the Black Friday meme. We announced that all KDE software was available at discount prices https://floss.social/@kde/109388508695485068 and then have been playing all week with the "Blue Friday"

Kdenlive's fund raiser is now live

2022-09-20 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Community, Kdenlive's first fundraiser just started today! You can donate and help support developers implement new features (like nested timelines and a new effects panel), and maintain and improve the code. https://kdenlive.org/fund/?mtm_campaign=fund_mastodon With this fundraiser, KDE

Re: Drupal sites within KDE

2022-08-16 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 16 August 2022 08:03:10 CEST Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote: > Hi Phu and Paul, > > here is a public demo of the Netlify CMS backend: > https://cms-demo.netlify.com/#/ > > It appears that the workflow with publishing stages is optional, dependent > on configuration. That interface is

Re: Drupal sites within KDE

2022-08-15 Thread Paul Brown
On Monday, 15 August 2022 16:28:18 CEST Nate Graham wrote: > On 8/15/22 08:05, Phu Hung Nguyen wrote: > > [1] this is not to say that a Hugo site cannot have comments. It can, > > but it seems that we don't need that functionality now. > > If I'm going to move my blog to KDE infrastructure, I

Re: Drupal sites within KDE

2022-08-11 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 11 August 2022 15:47:09 CEST Nate Graham wrote: > On 8/11/22 06:05, Paul Brown wrote: > > On Thursday, 11 August 2022 13:49:58 CEST Carl Schwan wrote: > >> Personally after having to deal with Wordpress at work, I think it offers > >> an horrible dev

Re: Drupal sites within KDE

2022-08-11 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 11 August 2022 13:49:58 CEST Carl Schwan wrote: > Personally after having to deal with Wordpress at work, I think it offers an > horrible developer experience with tons of plugin violating the spirit of > the GPL, using PHP like it is still 00s (static and global variable >

Re: Drupal sites within KDE

2022-08-11 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:55:02 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > As mentioned in an earlier email, I was going to look at connecting our > Drupal sites to make use of Invent for authentication. > While at initial glance a plugin to handle this did appear to exist, upon > implementation

Re: Changes to login for stats.kde.org

2022-08-07 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 7 August 2022 15:49:13 CEST Halla Rempt wrote: > Works fine for me! Works here too. Nice and simple. A step up in convenience. Thanks Ben! Paul > > On zondag 7 augustus 2022 12:27:28 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > As part of the previously approved move to Gitlab for

Re: Is KDE an open source project based in Germany?

2022-07-21 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 21 July 2022 05:30:59 CEST Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Subject: Is KDE an open source project based in Germany? > > Good day from Singapore, > > Is KDE an open source project based in Germany? Hello, Thank you for your interest in KDE. Yes. KDE produces exclusively

Re: Is KDE an open source project based in Germany?

2022-07-21 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 21 July 2022 07:05:11 CEST Shlomi Fish wrote: > Hi Mr. Ming! > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2022 11:30:59 +0800 > > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Subject: Is KDE an open source project based in Germany? > > > > Good day from Singapore, > > > > Is KDE an open source project based

KDE's 2021 Annual report is here

2022-07-12 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Community Member, We have just published KDE's 2021 Annual Report. In it we reflect on the year that was, list all the sprints and events community members participated in, as well as the tasks carried out by the working groups. Finally we look at KDE's financial status. We hope you like

Help TUXEDO Computers celebrate their 18th birthday

2022-06-29 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Community Members, Our friends and sponsors over at TUXEDO Computers are celebrating their 18th anniversary and are carrying out celebratory activities. You will have seen, for example, the sweet merch bundles they are giving away on social media. Another thing they are doing is putting

Re: Welcome Dina, our new event manager!

2022-02-19 Thread Paul Brown
On Saturday, 19 February 2022 11:34:11 CET Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm happy to welcome Dina to KDE. She's KDE e.V.'s new event manager > and will support us in organizing our events. She'll work closely with > the LAS and Akademy teams to put together great events for all of

We can now accept donations through GitHub

2022-01-06 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Fellow Community Members, Happy New Year! KDE can now take donations via GitHub. Each project has a "sponsor" slug when it is listed, and a [❤️] button in the column on the left of the project itself. Both take users to KDE's main GitHub donations page at:

Re: How do we feel about non 100% KDE job offers being sent here?

2021-11-25 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 25 November 2021 14:44:56 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Hey, > > I know a company that would like to hire people with a skill set that > is relatively common inside the KDE community, the job is not strictly > KDE related, one could call it KDE-adjacent. > > How do we feel about

Re: Call for Hosts for Akademy 2022

2021-09-24 Thread Paul Brown
On Friday, 24 September 2021 16:38:00 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 11:29 AM Allyson wrote: > > The Call for Hosts for Akademy 2022 is now officially published > > > > > > Akademy 2022 is on its way and, despite the continuing pandemic, we are > > aiming for some

Re: The KDE Network America

2021-09-23 Thread Paul Brown
On Thursday, 23 September 2021 10:56:37 CEST Aniqa Khokhar wrote: > Dear Community, > > We are starting the KDE Network in the US > (https://community.kde.org/The_KDE_Network), as we would like to support > and promote KDE there. > > Bhavisha Dhruve (also copied in this email) is part of the

Re: Welcoming Lana to KDE e.V.

2021-09-20 Thread Paul Brown
On Monday, 20 September 2021 19:21:20 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Today I'm happy to let you know that Lana Lutz joined us as the new > project lead and event manager for the Blauer Engel for FOSS Project. > She is going to handle the administrative and events side of the >

Re: Files on Collaborate

2021-08-28 Thread Paul Brown
he synch and even erased the account from the client so it wouldn't try and resume synching when I restarted the client. But clearly I was not fast enough. Either way, I am deeply embarrassed and very sorry for the trouble I have caused and will be extra cautious from now on. Paul Brown -- Promo

Re: Migration to collaborate.kde.org

2021-08-08 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 8 August 2021 20:35:48 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 4:15 AM Paul Brown wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > Hi Paul, > > > Another problem: 10 MBs is not enough for non-shared stuff. The stuff I > > had in > > my "personal" folder

Re: Migration to collaborate.kde.org

2021-08-08 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 8 August 2021 20:38:56 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2021 at 11:25 PM Paul Brown wrote: > > Hello Ben, > > Hi Paul, > > > I am missing a bunch of calendars and my personal calendar has been > > emptied of > > events and tasks. To be pre

Re: Migration to collaborate.kde.org

2021-08-08 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 8 August 2021 20:32:00 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 5:01 AM Paul Brown wrote: > > On Sunday, 8 August 2021 08:10:48 CEST Allyson A wrote: > > > Thanks Ben. > > > > > > Could you send over the new file drop link for th

Re: Migration to collaborate.kde.org

2021-08-08 Thread Paul Brown
On Sunday, 8 August 2021 08:10:48 CEST Allyson A wrote: > Thanks Ben. > > Could you send over the new file drop link for the 25th anniversary? > I tried this https://collaborate.kde.org/f/58151 But it only works for people who have accounts in Collaborate. As we are poking external people,

Re: Migration to collaborate.kde.org

2021-08-08 Thread Paul Brown
Hi Ben, Another problem: 10 MBs is not enough for non-shared stuff. The stuff I had in my "personal" folder (nothing in it was really "personal", but more like travelling details, or presentations, etc.) far exceed that. If I remember right, we used to have 100 MBs for personal stuff. Can we

Re: Migration to collaborate.kde.org

2021-08-08 Thread Paul Brown
Hello Ben, I am missing a bunch of calendars and my personal calendar has been emptied of events and tasks. To be precise, I am missing * Attend External Events: List of events to attend (Aniqa Khokhar) * Promo calendars, and, as mentioned, my Personal calendar has lost most (not all) events

Re: Welcoming Eliza and Joseph to KDE e.V.

2021-07-05 Thread Paul Brown
On Monday, 5 July 2021 22:54:52 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Today I'm happy to let you know that KDE e.V. has hired Eliza and > Joseph, two great people who will support our work around the > environmental sustainability of our software. This is part of the > grant we

Re: Article on the X Window System

2021-06-16 Thread Paul Brown
On Wednesday, 16 June 2021 16:10:41 CEST Andy Oram wrote: > Thanks to the people on this list who helped me with this piece. The > published article is here: > > https://www.fosslife.org/how-x-window-system-influenced-modern-computing > How the X Window System influenced modern computing A great

Re: Request for a reviewer to check an article mentioning KDE

2021-06-04 Thread Paul Brown
On Friday, 4 June 2021 23:08:53 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El diumenge, 30 de maig de 2021, a les 10:52:11 (CEST), Andy Oram va escriure: > > kde-community@kde.org > > > > Request for a reviewer to check an article mentioning KDE > > > > The Linux Professional Institute is going to publish

Re: Announcing KDE e.V.'s two new contractors to work on KDE's technical documentation

2021-06-02 Thread Paul Brown
Great news! Congrats Frederik and Carl! We are all looking forward to what you will do with the documentation. Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter:

KDE + LMMS Plasma Mobile Sound Competition

2021-05-20 Thread Paul Brown
Hello Community! The Promo team is running a competition to get new ringtones and tunes, alarm and notification sounds for Plasma Mobile. We have partnered with the LMMS (https://lmms.io/) community to run the competition so, all sounds and tunes must be made using that software. The winner

Re: ISCAS and openEuler are launching an alternative to Google Summer of Code

2021-05-11 Thread Paul Brown
On Tuesday, 11 May 2021 04:49:10 CEST Philippe Cloutier wrote: > Hi Guilherme, > > Le 2021-05-09 à 14:46, Guilherme a écrit : > > Hello KDE Community, > > > > The Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS)and the > > openEuler Linux distribution are launching their own alternative

Re: Announcing KDE's Qt 5 Patch Collection

2021-04-06 Thread Paul Brown
On martes, 6 de abril de 2021 14:55:12 (CEST) Pau Garcia Quiles wrote: > Hello > > This is great news and proves once more KDE is adding real value to the Qt > community. > > Thank you and congratulations! > > PS: Are there any social media posts we can help amplify? Hello Pau, ¿Cómo va,

Re: Prototype Fund

2021-03-23 Thread Paul Brown
On martes, 23 de marzo de 2021 21:51:46 (CET) Jos van den Oever wrote: > On dinsdag 23 maart 2021 20:23:29 CET Paul Brown wrote: > > On martes, 23 de marzo de 2021 15:43:09 (CET) Jos van den Oever wrote: > > > On maandag 22 maart 2021 22:56:33 CET cahfof...@tuta.io wrote

Re: Prototype Fund

2021-03-23 Thread Paul Brown
On martes, 23 de marzo de 2021 15:43:09 (CET) Jos van den Oever wrote: > On maandag 22 maart 2021 22:56:33 CET cahfof...@tuta.io wrote: > > Dear KDE community, > > > > for those of you living in Germany: 9 days are left for applying at the > > Prototype Fund (https://prototypefund.de

Re: Formal request to set up a KDE Discourse instance

2021-02-24 Thread Paul Brown
On miércoles, 24 de febrero de 2021 2:49:28 (CET) Nate Graham wrote: > On 2/23/21 5:34 PM, Eike Hein wrote: > > Hey, > > > > This all sounds much too confrontational :-). Come on everyone, we can > > do this much better. > > > > Ben, I don't think Nate's request implies prioritization. For folks

Re: Rebranding the release service

2021-02-21 Thread Paul Brown
conversation, for example: "Now we have decided on a name for the KDE releases, let's switch gears and talk about Plasma." Cheers Paul > Am 20.02.21 um 20:24 schrieb Paul Brown: > > On sábado, 20 de febrero de 2021 18:39:45 (CET) Nate Graham wrote: > >> On 2/20/

Re: Rebranding the release service

2021-02-20 Thread Paul Brown
On sábado, 20 de febrero de 2021 18:39:45 (CET) Nate Graham wrote: > On 2/20/21 9:35 AM, Philippe Cloutier wrote: > > Le 2021-02-20 à 10:38, Luigi Toscano a écrit : > >>> In any case, "KDE Gear" sure is short and makes some sense if we > >>> consider it > >>> related to Extragear, but for those

Tell us about your KDE experiences in 2020 for the Yearly Report

2021-01-11 Thread Paul Brown
Dear Fellow Community Members, We are currently working on the yearly report and, for the featured article, we would like to write about how the extraordinary circumstances of the year 2020 affected our community. Instead of relying on one (or two) points of view, we thought it would be

Re: Hello from MyGNUHealth

2020-12-18 Thread Paul Brown
On viernes, 18 de diciembre de 2020 15:13:53 (CET) Luis Falcon wrote: > Dear KDE community > > I am happy to announce that MyGNUHealth, the GH Personal Health > record, is now a member of the KDE family! Amazing news, Luis. Welcome! Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www:

Re: Website content licensing

2020-09-08 Thread Paul Brown
On martes, 8 de septiembre de 2020 20:21:42 (CEST) Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 19:07:14 BST Paul Brown wrote: > > On martes, 8 de septiembre de 2020 15:16:26 (CEST) Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 8 September 2020 14:43:51 CEST Carl Schwan wrote

Re: Thank you!

2020-07-31 Thread Paul Brown
On Friday, 31 July 2020 23:13:14 CEST Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Dear KDE infrastructure sysadmins! > > Not only cause it is still sysadmin appreciation day! > > Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. > > Caring for KDE infrastructure is quite a feat. And you all do it > tirelessly since a long

Re: BigBlueButton for non-KDE stuff?

2020-07-10 Thread Paul Brown
On jueves, 9 de julio de 2020 14:02:25 (CEST) Pau Garcia Quiles wrote: > Hello > > I was wondering if there is a policy or restriction to use meet.kde.org > > Why this question? > > Uyuni (https://www.uyuni-project.org/) is an open source systems management > solution, at the moment mostly

Re: KDE Apps name trademarks

2020-07-08 Thread Paul Brown
On miércoles, 8 de julio de 2020 18:12:49 (CEST) Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Recently we've noticed some KDE apps ending up on the Microsoft Store > uploaded by unknown third parties. Maybe to up some credit score for their > developer account. Maybe to install bitcoin miners. We don't know the

Re: Akademy 2020 Online

2020-04-16 Thread Paul Brown
On jueves, 16 de abril de 2020 11:09:19 (CEST) Jens wrote: > On onsdag 15 april 2020 kl. 11:11:19 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > > Hi > > > > We will be hosting Akademy 2020 online between Friday 4th and Friday 11th > > September > > > >

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Paul Brown
On miércoles, 8 de abril de 2020 23:20:34 (CEST) Jens wrote: > On onsdag 8 april 2020 kl. 20:11:47 CEST Paul Brown wrote: > > On miércoles, 8 de abril de 2020 20:03:37 (CEST) Nate Graham wrote: > > > On 4/8/20 9:32 AM, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > > > > On 2020-04-0

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