Re: KDE Licensing Policy Updates

2016-09-28 Thread Albert Astals Cid 
El dimarts, 20 de setembre de 2016, a les 18:04:47 CEST, Jonathan Riddell va 
escriure:
> Changed:
> "Documentation must be licensed under the Creative Commons
> Attribution-Sharealike 4.0 International"
> Rationale: Currently we use GNU FDL but that licence is unmaintained,
> little used, problematic due to association with non-free options and
> incompatible with the GPL.  CC-BY-SA 4 is one way compatible with the
> GPL (code can be copied from docs to GPL code).  So I suggest moving
> new docs to CC.

Have you contacted the people that actually write docs if they are happy with 
you imposing a change on the docs they write?

CC'ing them just in case they did not see it.

Cheers,
  Albert

Re: KDE Licensing Policy Updates

2016-09-28 Thread Albert Astals Cid 
El dimarts, 20 de setembre de 2016, a les 18:04:47 CEST, Jonathan Riddell va 
escriure:
> It's time for a new updates to the KDE Licensing Policy

kde-licens...@kde.org feels sad for not getting any news about this.

Cheers,
  Albert

Re: We now have an Advisory Board

2016-09-28 Thread Thiago Macieira 
On terça-feira, 27 de setembro de 2016 16:49:30 PDT Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> in case you haven't read the Dot article [1] yet:
> KDE now has an Advisory Board, consisting of KDE e.V.'s Patrons as well as
> organizations using our software on a large scale (currently LiMux) and
> other NGOs with visions/missions similar to ours. The list of members is on
> the Advisory Board page [2].

Do you know if the Linux Foundation was approached about sitting in the AB? If 
not, or if so and they didn't reply (instead of declining), do you want me to 
talk to them?

I'll be in Berlin next week for LinuxCon and could facilitate a discussion.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center

Re: [kde-community] Results from the Mission Survey

2016-09-28 Thread Alexander Neundorf 
On Tuesday 27 September 2016 16:06:38 Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Alexander Neundorf  
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 September 2016 21:53:46 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> >> On 12.09.2016 18:18, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> > 
> >> > On Thursday 01 September 2016 16:54:32 Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Ingo Klöcker  
wrote:
> >> >>> I don't think so. On
> >> >>> https://akademy.kde.org/
> >> >>> there's no BoF registered for working on the mission.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Thomas and I just added one on Tuesday at 4pm.
> >> > 
> >> > how did it go ?
> >> > Are there notes or something somewhere ?
> >> 
> >> Hi Alex,
> >> there are no notes of the BoF, but all the tangible results of it are
> >> reflected in the updated Mission draft [1].
> >> However, near the end of the BoF, concerns were brought up regarding
> >> whether a Mission for KDE should say anything about our products, or
> >> whether our products should only be defined by their individual product
> >> visions and a KDE Mission should only encompass how we organize and
> >> collaborate.> 
> > just a short remark: I think trying to give a general direction on what we
> > do is necessary, and according to the results of the surveys this is also
> > wanted. We now already have two "documents" where we do not talk about
> > what we create (the manifesto and the vision), so let's try to put down
> > in a mission what we are trying to create.
> > 
> > Alex
> 
> We seemed to be reaching consensus on the updated draft, but at the
> end of the hour some severe doubts were voiced. The product teams have
> some visions, and the doubt seemed to be that those visions and
> mission statements were going to be over-ridden.
> 
> So in my opinion, we need to gather those vision and mission
> statements, and see what the common elements are.

Sounds like a good plan. :-)
Was there the feeling that those might conflict with each other ?

Alex