Re: Akademy Registration Open and Talk Schedule Announced

[Marta Rybczynska]

... and it's all fixed now. We've reordered the talks. Thanks for the heads
up!
If you find anything else strange in the programe, do not hesitate to tell
us.

Best,
Marta

On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 6:23 PM, Bhushan Shah  wrote:

> Hello Martin,
>
> Yes, I've informed talk commitee about this, it seems the main reason
> mistake happened was, because Lydia was marked as main speaker in one
> talk..
>
> On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 06:17:02PM +0200, Martin Flöser wrote:
> > I think there's a mistake in the schedule. I doubt that Bhushan is able
> to
> > give two talks in two different rooms at the same time. He's awesome, but
> > that's too much of awesome ;-)
> >
> > https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2018/public/events/30 and
> > https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2018/public/events/28
> >
> > Cheers
> > Martin
>
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Re: What could be helpful to get contributor training on?

[Marta Rybczynska]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:40 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer 
wrote:

> Dear KDE community,
> With the $200k donation from the Pineapple Fund [1], we have some money
> available which we can invest in KDE’s future.
> We are currently thinking about what to best invest in, and one of the
> ideas was to pay for professional training in some skills for contributors.
> For that, we’d like to know which skills would be most useful for us to
> have in order to take KDE further?
>
> This can be soft or hard skills, but it would probably make sense to train
> things which we don’t already learn naturally from our collaboration anyway.
>
> So, what do you think?
>
> Thank you in advance for your input,
> Thomas


Hello all,
My 0.02 EUR: I'd say conflict resolution (like non-violent communication)
and interpersonal communication skills.
To be most effective they should be available for the whole community so
rather online than during events.
(Mis-)communication between people has caused issues multiple times and it
would be good to improve the
situation. That would help the community as a whole.

Best,
Marta

Re: Join the Akademy 2018 talks committee!

[Marta Rybczynska]

On 30 Oct 2017 22:04, "Albert Astals Cid"  wrote:

Hi

We are looking for people to join the Akademy 2018 Talks Committee.

To be suitable all you need is to have attended Akademy previously, have a
good idea of what the community is up to and have some spare time over the
next few months.

The committee comes up with some suggested themes in the Call for Papers and
decides on the selection of talks from the submissions. So they are a very
important part of making the conference a success.

If you would like to be involved in this please let me know.


Hello,
I'd like to join the talks comitee this year.

Best
Marta

[kde-community] Introducing reimbursements.kde.org

[Marta Rybczynska]

Dear all,
KDE e.V. supports multiple events in the KDE community: Akademy, Lakademy,
conf.kde.in, Randa, sprints, representation of KDE on other events.

We use this email as an occasion to remind you that any KDE community
member may organize a sprint and we do have a budget to support them. If
you need more information, email the Board at kde-ev-bo...@kde.org. For
more information on the Travel Cost Reimbursement Policy see
https://ev.kde.org/rules/reimbursement_policy.php

With the high number of requests, handling the reimbursements manually
means a significant administrative effort. We've tested and deployed a
system that makes it easier for everyone (and thanks to Agustin for
suggesting it!): https://reimbursements.kde.org/ The procedure changes
slightly, so please take the time to review it before applying. Here's how
it works:

For event organizers

1. Ask the Board for support for your event as usual. Important:
provide the budget you need.
2. When the budget is accepted, it will be created at
https://reimbursements.kde.org/
3. Ask the participants to apply at https://reimbursements.kde.org/
4. Enter your sprint at sprints.kde.org
We'll come with a more detailed checklist for the event organizers in the
future.

For event participants
=
  Before the event:
Note that you should first try to get your employer to pay for your
trip, find a  third  party sponsor or consider paying for it from your own
funds. If  you wouldn't be able to attend the event because of the costs or
paying  for it yourself would be a great burden for you because you have no
or a low income or the costs are especially high, you should request  a
reimbursement.

1. Apply at https://reimbursements.kde.org/. Log in using your KDE Identity
user name and password
2. Go into Events and choose your event, click on "Travel support"
3. Fill in the form. Make sure you request the right amount for each
category. The amount accepted, based on what you entered, will be final.
You won't get reimbursed more.
4. Submit the form and *confirm* it.
5. Soon your request will be accepted or you will be asked for more
information. The notifications are send by email.
 After the event:
 1. Scan or make photos off all the receipts (hotel, transport etc).
 2. Log in at the site again and go to "Reimbursements"
 3. Fill the form. You can submit multiple files of receipts.
 4. Download, print, *sign*, scan and submit the acceptance form from
the site. It replaces the old form.
 5. Submit and *confirm* the request.
 6. You will be notified when your request is accepted and paid.

>From now we're handling all reimbursements using this site. If your event
is not yet added, or you have any questions or doubts, please mail
kde-ev-bo...@kde.org.

Marta for the KDE e.V. Board
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Re: [kde-community] Fundraising

[Marta Rybczynska]

On 11 Jul 2014 00:37, Martin Konold kon...@kde.org wrote:

 Hi Jos,

 what about the About dialog?

 IMHO this is the expected location for a Thank you and also a How can
I contribute section.

Hello all,
For me a separate item in the Help menu seems a better option. Less clicks
means more chances somebody sees it.

Not sure of the plasmoid however - will any user upgrading actually see it?

Cheers
Marta
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Re: [kde-community] KDE Dinner at FOSDEM?

[Marta Rybczynska]

Good idea. If we can get the list of people interested earlier, booking
should be easier, too.

Cheers,
Marta


On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:28 AM, John Layt jl...@kde.org wrote:

 On 3 January 2014 03:46, Aleix Pol aleix...@kde.org wrote:

  On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Albert Astals Cid aa...@kde.org wrote:

  Hi there, I know lots of us KDE heads will be at FOSDEM so I was
 wondering
  if people is interested in an official KDE Dinner for saturday.
 
  If you're interested, do you have suggestions for the restaurant?

  It sounds like a good idea, we've done that before. The biggest problem I
  guess is that we'll end up being ~15 people and it's not easy to allocate
  that much people. Also, I'm clueless about restaurants :).

 Two lessons learned from previous times: organise place and time in
 advance so everyone knows where to go, and don't make the time too
 early as people take ages to leave FOSDEM and get into the city.  If
 someone local(ish) can find/remember a decent restaurant and book it
 would be best.

 John.
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Re: [kde-community] KDE Manifesto Revision (round 2)

[Marta Rybczynska]

Thanks for the work, Kevin et al. I like the new version better than the
older one.

Just a doubt about two lines:
Licensing policy must be respected.
branding guidelines are respected.

It's either both 'must be' or 'are'. I'd say rather 'are' when looking at
the other points.

Cheers,
Marta


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Thursday 21 November 2013 17:07:08 Kevin Ottens wrote:
  Hello community,
 
  So after the three threads I started a couple of weeks ago, I collected
 the
  feedback (thanks to everyone who participated!) and made a new patch out
  of it.
 
  It should cover everything which was discussed previously. So please
 review
  that new patch, and let me know if you still have some worries. If
 there's
  no objection on that patch until next thursday, then I'll bring it up to
  the membership for voting.
 
  Regards.

 I love it. Shorter and more to the point. Also - it might have been a pain
 to
 go through so many long threads but I agree with Valorie that the result is
 worth it and it's great to see the process work so well. Hugs to everybody
 :D
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