Re: Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia

2017-08-30 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer 

> On 30. Aug 2017, at 03:12, Valorie Zimmerman  
> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer
>  wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> here is my proposal for a Big Hairy Audacious Goal:
>> Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia
>> 
>> I think that here is a lot of yet-untapped potential for the usage of KDE
>> products in the research and academic sector, and we should fix that, for 
>> their
>> sake and ours.
>> 
>> See all the details here: https://phabricator.kde.org/T6895
>> 
>> Feedback and contributions very welcome!
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas
> 
> Very cool idea, Thomas.

Thanks!

> I think Wikitolearn is a natural part of KDE
> leadership here,

Yes, absolutely! Of course I had WtL in mind as well when developing the idea, 
but then totally forgot to add it to the proposal. Shame on me. I’ve fixed that 
now.

> and we could perhaps partner with
> http://openscience.org/ - some of whom got their beginning in KDE. In
> addition, while searching for Open Science, I saw https://osf.io/,
> which is Open Science Framework: A scholarly commons to connect the
> entire research cycle. I can't tell if they have an FOSS connections
> or not, but that orientation to openness and sharing is built into the
> scientific process and the academy.
> 
They have “Free and open source” written on their front page, so they’ve at 
least heard of the concept ;)
Open Science in general does not necessarily have to include FOSS, but for 
anyone who takes it seriously, it kinda does, because sharing your data and 
step-by-step process while still using software that does things you cannot 
check partially defeats the purpose of the whole endeavor.

KDE for automotive: talk, BoF and initial steps

2017-08-30 Thread Agustin Benito (toscalix) 
Dear KDE friends,

during Akademy 2017 I delivered a lightning talk "Opening new doors:
KDE in embedded" in line with a mail[2] sent to kde-community mailing
list in April 2016 and a blog post[3] published in October 2016.

After the talk, several of you approached me with the idea to organize
a BoF. We did. The talking points were:

* Presentation of every participant (around 12) and description of the
opportunity they see in automotive for KDE.
* Those of us who are currently (or has been in the past) involved in
automotive described which opportunities we see nowadays for KDE in
automotive..
* We agreed on working towards creating a basic demo that shows the
capabilities of KDE technologies in the automotive field to show it in
events related with Open Source in automotive.
* Overview of the challenges to face to make thar demo come true.
* And then?

So in general the idea of the BoF was to find out if there was enough
interest in the topic, which there was.

Now it is time to shape a plan and work towards creating a simple demo
that shows the potential that our technologies, the project and the
community has in this sector, specially within those incipient open
and collaborative environments that  are growing fast, creating Linux
based distributions for automotive. AGL and GENIVI are the best known
examples.

Please join the revived kde-embedded mailing list[4]. You can also pay
attention and/or join two projects in phabricator[5][6] to follow the
actions taken by the promoters of this modest effort.

[1] https://conf.kde.org/en/akademy2017/public/events/357
[2] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2016q2/002654.html
[3] 
http://toscalix.blogspot.com.es/2016/10/automotive-what-opportunity-for-kde.html
[4] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-embedded
[5] https://phabricator.kde.org/project/profile/242/
[6] https://phabricator.kde.org/project/profile/241/

Best Regards

Agustin Benito (toscalix)
KDE eV member
Profile: http://es.linkedin.com/in/toscalix

Re: Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia

2017-08-30 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer 

> On 30. Aug 2017, at 07:21, Luca Beltrame  wrote:
> 
> Il giorno Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:34:37 +0200
> Thomas Pfeiffer  ha
> scritto:
> 
>> I think that here is a lot of yet-untapped potential for the usage of
>> KDE products in the research and academic sector, and we should fix
> 
> Interesting. I've been using (and having colleague using ;)KDE software
> for a while in a small research no profit.

Cool!

> A question arises: is this
> aimed at technical fields like CS and the like, or all research in
> general?

Establishing our software in the technical (or I’d “hard sciences” in general, 
because all scientists nowadays need some programming knowledge) is certainly 
most effective for recruiting code contributors, but I would certainly not 
restrict the effort to them.
WikiToLearn, for example, is useful for all fields, and so is Kile (though 
there are certainly fields where TeX is not as common as in the more technical 
fields). And RKward is useful for all social sciences.

And I think there are enough benefits to establishing ourselves in all fields 
of research to make it worthwhile.

> 
> Depending on the field, things may be slightly different wrt
> requirements.
> 
True.

Re: Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia

2017-08-30 Thread Alexander Neundorf 
On 2017 M08 29, Tue 18:12:55 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer
> 
>  wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > here is my proposal for a Big Hairy Audacious Goal:
> > Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia
> > 
> > I think that here is a lot of yet-untapped potential for the usage of KDE
> > products in the research and academic sector, and we should fix that, for
> > their sake and ours.
> > 
> > See all the details here: https://phabricator.kde.org/T6895
> > 
> > Feedback and contributions very welcome!
> > Cheers,
> > Thomas
> 
> Very cool idea, Thomas. I think Wikitolearn is a natural part of KDE
> leadership here, and we could perhaps partner with
> http://openscience.org/ - some of whom got their beginning in KDE. In
> addition, while searching for Open Science, I saw https://osf.io/,
> which is Open Science Framework: A scholarly commons to connect the
...

Not to forget Kitware, which is strong in Open Science and research.

Alex

Re: Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia

2017-08-30 Thread Luca Beltrame 
Il giorno Wed, 30 Aug 2017 11:43:42 +0200
Thomas Pfeiffer  ha
scritto:

> And I think there are enough benefits to establishing ourselves in
> all fields of research to make it worthwhile.

In fact I think it would be worthwhile to present such options. I've
seen KDE software used in places I did not expect (e.g. a research
institute in agrobiology I visited a few years ago). 

That said, I think it would be also a good idea to see "what makes our
software palatable for R" (which is potential reason 2 in your Phab
task). At least in my field (bioinformatics) most do not even know it
exists.


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