EU Survey on "Sustainable OSS communities in the public sector"

Hey everyone, The European Commission is currently looking for input on "Sustainable OSS communities in the public sector" via an open survey. I believe it's a great opportunity to show politicians and bureaucrats how to collaborate with us in a sustainable way. Therefore, I'd encourage all KDE

Re: 4th global climate strike - should KDE take action?

I have sent a former vote proposal to the e.V. list now. We'll see what happens. On 04.11.19 15:56, cahfof...@tuta.io wrote: > Hello Christoph, > thanks for your fast answer. > > You're rigth, the general interest in this topic is very low at this moment, > there were neither positive nor

Re: KDE should rather act then just "strike" (Re: Should KDE join the (Digital) Global Climate Strike this friday?)

Hi Christoph, On 20.09.19 22:35, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > I must confess I missed that we decided to participate, too, but digging > in the mails of this thread it seems the board of e.V. did so. (if I > don't misread > Aleix mail) >From my perspective, the course of events was: - On

Re: KDE should rather act then just "strike" (Re: Should KDE join the (Digital) Global Climate Strike this friday?)

On 19.09.19 20:58, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 19. September 2019, 19:35:53 CEST schrieb Nate Graham: >> On 9/19/19 11:05 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: >>> More, I see all those "strikes" are substitutes for people actually >>> handling or at least for postponing their

Re: FSF leadership

On 19.09.19 11:48, Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: > Hello again, > > a clarification from my side... > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:16 AM Agustín Benito wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am against this. I find disrespectful to tell a fellow organization what >> they should do. I would feel the

Re: Should KDE join the (Digital) Global Climate Strike this friday? - Proposal

Hey everyone, Here is a concrete proposal which I've just brought up on the promo channel and which seems to gain support there: - Add a banner on our website _today_ informing about the Global Climate Strike which starts tomorrow and telling that we support it (not covering the whole website,

Re: KDE should rather act then just "strike" (Re: Should KDE join the (Digital) Global Climate Strike this friday?)

Hi Friedrich, On 19.09.19 13:52, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 18. September 2019, 18:01:18 CEST schrieb cahfof...@tuta.io: >> Hello to all members of the KDE community, >> >> this friday (september the 20th) will be a big day in climate protests and >> hopefully also in human

Communication training at Akademy on Friday

Dear KDE community, Since the Nonviolent Communication training last Akademy was received very positively, and both those who attended it and those who didn't have the chance to attend expressed that more communication training would be useful, we decided to invite Tilman Krakau, our trainer from

Re: Invent/gitlab, issues and bugzilla

On 7/3/19 9:05 PM, Luigi Toscano wrote: > Boudewijn Rempt ha scritto: >> On woensdag 3 juli 2019 20:23:41 CEST Nate Graham wrote: >>> On 7/3/19 11:53 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: If the new is much better than the old, let's just remove the old. As said, having two things that do

Re: Contributor training feedback data

On 6/30/19 11:33 AM, Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:33:13 BST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: >> We (the board) have not decided yet which trainings to offer at this >> year's Akademy (but we have decided that we do want to offer trainings >> in general!). We've go

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

On 7/1/19 9:02 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hi all, > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:48 AM Luigi Toscano <mailto:luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it>> wrote: > > Nate Graham ha scritto: > > On 6/29/19 4:04 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > >> Hi Jonathan,

Re: Contributor training feedback data

On 6/20/19 6:22 PM, Roman Gilg wrote: > Hi, > > last Akademy there were some contributor trainings going on. And > afterwards there was a poll on how people liked it. > > It this poll data available somewhere? And what trainings are planned > for Akademy 2019? > > Thanks in advance. > > Roman

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

On 6/19/19 5:44 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I've set up a Discourse server for a trail to see if it's something we > should add to KDE's infrastructure. > > Discourse is a modern Free Software web forum and mailing list app. > > Give it a trial now at http://discuss.kde.org.uk/ > > If you

Re: Improving our integration with KDE application teams, and supporting companies

On Samstag, 11. August 2018 14:25:16 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > In addition there is the widespread opinion that amateurs are better > than professionals for KDE, and that if there are professionals > working on software, that the volunteers will leave. In fact, this > idea seems widespread

Re: Twitter access

On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2018 15:16:39 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I'll stop doing KDE promo again then. KDE shouldn't have unnamed > higher powers who block community contributions. > > Jonathan Hi Jonathan, Nobody has wronged you. There are no unnamed higher powers blocking community

Re: What could be helpful to get contributor training on?

> On 9. Mar 2018, at 09:48, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On Thursday, 8 March 2018 22:39:08 CET Lydia Pintscher wrote: >> >> The board. >> > > Ah. I'm sorry -- that wasn't clear at all to me in the original mail. I just > was really surprised because it didn't seem to have

Re: What could be helpful to get contributor training on?

Hi Paul > On 9. Mar 2018, at 09:22, Paul Brown <paul.br...@kde.org> wrote: > > On jueves, 8 de marzo de 2018 21:40:00 (CET) Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: >> Dear KDE community, >> With the $200k donation from the Pineapple Fund [1], we have some money >> available wh

What could be helpful to get contributor training on?

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,

Call for Sessions for LibrePlanet 2018

Dear community, John Sullivan, the Free Software Foundation's representative in our Advisory Board, pointed us to the Call for Sessions for the 2018 edition of the FSF's annual LibrePlanet conference [1] and invited us to send in sessions. The call ends Thursday, November 9th, 2017 at 10:00 EST

Re: Is there interest in participating in Google Code-in this year?

On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Jens Reuterberg wrote: > Well so I can't do much in that area I feel - unless its open to design tasks. > If that is the case ("design tasks" is ok), count me in. It _is_ open to design tasks! This is actually the category where we usually

Re: time to review the goal proposals

On Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2017 01:29:50 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Wow, this is a GREAT lineup of possible goals. It will be difficult to > choose just one. On the other hand, we will have this list as a > resource when it's time to choose the next goal. The plan was to choose three, actually,

Re: Let's set some goals

I’ve also snuck in another goal today ( https://phabricator.kde.org/T7126 ), sorry for being a bit late. Cheers, Thomas > On 30. Sep 2017, at 18:05, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Andy B wrote: >> Are you ok that I submit my

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

> On 30. Aug 2017, at 01:34, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> 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 pot

Re: Randa Meeting: Notes on Voice Control in KDE

> On 16. Sep 2017, at 00:08, Aditya Mehra wrote: > > Hi Everyone :), > > Firstly i would like to start of by introducing myself, I am Aditya, i have > been working on the Mycroft - Plasma integration project since some time > which includes the front-end work like having

Re: RFC: Small change to KDE Manifesto Commitments

> On 15. Sep 2017, at 04:34, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> El divendres, 15 de setembre de 2017, a les 1:10:32 CEST, Boudhayan Gupta va >> escriure: >>> While we're at it, might I suggest

Re: Randa Meeting: Notes on Voice Control in KDE

> On 15. Sep 2017, at 12:54, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > Hey! > > Interesting discussion. Did you guys factor in the work done by Mycroft > on that front? I think there's a great deal of overlap, and already > some really interesting results shown for example in the Mycroft >

Re: Survey for prioritization of requirements for an IM/chat solution for KDE

Here are the results of the survey: https://sessellift.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/results-of-the-requirements-survey-for-a-kde-wide-chat-solution/ Now it's time for us to find a solution that fits the profile! Cheers, Thomas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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

> On 30. Aug 2017, at 22:10, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > Not to forget Kitware, which is strong in Open Science and research. …which is why it already said in the proposal "Much of the software they use is already Qt-based (see e.g. Kitware)” :)

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

> On 30. Aug 2017, at 22:09, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On 2017 M08 30, Wed 16:20:07 CEST Luca Beltrame wrote: > ... >> 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

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

> On 30. Aug 2017, at 07:21, Luca Beltrame <lbeltr...@kde.org> wrote: > > Il giorno Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:34:37 +0200 > Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> ha > scritto: > >> I think that here is a lot of yet-untapped potential for the usage of >>

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

> On 30. Aug 2017, at 03:12, Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmer...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer > <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> here is my proposal for a Big Hairy Audacious Goal: >>

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

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.

Re: Survey for prioritization of requirements for an IM/chat solution for KDE

On Freitag, 25. August 2017 12:46:16 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Friday, 18 August 2017 01:11:39 BST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've finally managed to enter all of our proposed requirements for a > > KDE-wide primary IM/chat solution into a tool for crea

Survey for prioritization of requirements for an IM/chat solution for KDE

Hi everyone, I've finally managed to enter all of our proposed requirements for a KDE-wide primary IM/chat solution into a tool for creating Kano surveys: http://www.kanosurvey.com/?id=3959 The Kano model [1] categorizes features not just in "must have" and "nice to have" but into five

Re: Telemetry Policy

> On 17. Aug 2017, at 17:38, Mirko Boehm - KDE <mi...@kde.org> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 17. Aug 2017, at 01:46, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org >> <mailto:thomas.pfeif...@kde.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi Valorie, >> Even if opt

Re: Telemetry Policy

On Mittwoch, 16. August 2017 09:33:02 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hi all, Mozilla has done a lot of work on telemetry, and we might be > able to use some of their findings. On this page: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection they break down the > data they might possibly collect

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution (was: Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat)

Hey everyone, just a quick progress update: I have now cleaned up https://notes.kde.org/p/KDE_IM_requirements by removing duplicates, removing all discussion / comments (so only plain requirements are left) and rewording most requirements to that they have a somewhat common wording. The next

Re: [kde-community] Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

> On 15 Aug 2017, at 12:09, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > > On 15 August 2017 at 10:44, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> wrote: >> The VDG has contributed to the Etherpad, so their requirements are covered >> in there. > > How

Re: [kde-community] Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

> On 15 Aug 2017, at 11:42, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 09:49:11PM +0900, Eike Hein wrote: >> >> I've given some more thought to Matrix as a contender and I'm >> increasingly liking this option among the available contenders. > > We have the

Re: Proposal: Have the Community Set Ambitious Goals for Itself

On Dienstag, 15. August 2017 00:47:15 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Mirko Boehm - KDE wrote: > > I have seen only agreement and support for the porposal. What would be the > > required steps to make an official announcement, and encourage people to

Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

On Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 18:40:34 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2017, 17:25:14 CEST schrieb Jonathan Riddell: > > LibreOffice are having a similar discussion > > > > https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/msg02257.html > > > > They want to continue

Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

> On 10 Aug 2017, at 15:27, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> You can't expect me to read a 200 messages backlog in 20 channels just in >> case >> something important was said while i was away. >> >> Also one

Re: How about an inclusive "and" approach instead of fighting IRC versus something new? (was: Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution)

> On 10 Aug 2017, at 10:22, Luigi Toscano wrote: > > Il 10 agosto 2017 10:24:08 EEST, Martin Steigerwald ha > scritto: >> Martin Klapetek - 09.08.17, 16:12: But KDE is not a tech startup. As people correctly wrote, KDE has a >> very

Please participate in the requirements Etherpad (Was: Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat)

Just in case my other email linking to the Etherpad was overlooked by some of you because it was buried too deep in the thread: Let's make this discussion productive by collecting the requirements KDE has for a chat / IM system to become our standard in this document:

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution

> On 09 Aug 2017, at 16:19, Eike Hein <h...@kde.org> wrote: > > On August 9, 2017 4:28:49 PM GMT+09:00, Thomas Pfeiffer > <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> wrote: >> On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 02:14:44 CEST Jonathan Frederickson wrote: >>> On 08/08/2017 06:19 PM

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution (was: Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat)

> On 09 Aug 2017, at 09:57, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > Can we please keep this thread limited to collecting-requirements, and > therefore arguing over which requirements are required or what their weight > is? That, rather than re-hashing the discussion elsewhere on which

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution (was: Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat)

On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 09:36:42 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 01:59:00 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > > PS: on the importance of emojis and (animated) stickers: I can see why > > people want them for friends and family, I love the stick

Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

On Dienstag, 8. August 2017 23:52:40 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > > Looking at #kde-devel just now it says: > > <-- swati_27 (uid130066@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-abaollxcgicrxgwg) > > has quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity) > > <-- nowrep (~david@kde/developer/drosca) has quit (Quit:

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution (was: Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat)

On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 01:59:00 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > PS: on the importance of emojis and (animated) stickers: I can see why > people want them for friends and family, I love the sticker packs I have on > Telegram. But why it is mandatory in a somewhat more professional >

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution

On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 02:14:44 CEST Jonathan Frederickson wrote: > On 08/08/2017 06:19 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > - Support for a decent set of Emoji (not just the ones you can create > > using > > ASCII chars). > > Using Unicode to display them is probably

Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution (was: Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat)

Hi everyone, now that hopefully most of the emotional arguments in fiery support of one protocol or another have been exchanged, I'd suggest we move things towards a practical approach and ask ourselves: What are the requirements that KDE has for an instant messaging / chat system for it to be

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

On Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017 22:41:04 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dilluns, 29 de maig de 2017, a les 21:17:29 CEST, Lydia Pintscher va > > escriure: > > Hey folks, > > > > Last year we have talked a lot about KDE's vision, fleshed it out and > > wrote it down:

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

> On 13 Jun 2017, at 15:29, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On dinsdag 13 juni 2017 14:16:25 CEST Kenny Coyle wrote: >> Thanks for putting this together, I can only see it being positive going >> forward. >> >> The text itself is very clear and concise. >> >> On the last section

Re: Kirchentag in Berlin

On Montag, 1. Mai 2017 17:48:18 CEST Irina Rempt wrote: > I've been to a Kirchentag already -- in München -- and I'd certainly like to > go again! Only I'm almost 60 and have a bad back, I don't think I can sleep > on the floor in a school gym for 5 nights and not end up broken. Now trying > to

Re: KDE at FOSDEM 2017 wrapup

On Montag, 6. Februar 2017 18:04:16 CET Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > Sadly no women at the party again which was commented on social media, > > la presidencia stood us up for VLC. > > Important diplomatic mission ;-)

Re: Kubuntu and other KDE distribution's use of KDE infrastructure

On Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017 11:18:07 CET Harald Sitter wrote: > Manifesto says one of our values is "Inclusivity to ensure that all > people are welcome to join us and participate;". Be inclusive, give > Kubuntu and Fedora a place on phab to manage their todos. Costs us > nothing, helps our

Re: We now have an Advisory Board

On 27.09.2016 17:52, victorhck wrote: in the article: https://dot.kde.org/2016/09/26/announcing-kde-advisory-board the LiMux link points to itself. Thanks, fixed. I removed the link because I could not find a proper project website for LiMux, and just linking to the Munich website feels too

We now have an Advisory Board

Dear KDE, 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

Re: Creating a map of KDE contributors?

On 20.09.2016 14:06, Luigi Toscano wrote: On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 13:42:35 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: Hi everyone, I recently realized that unless you ask fellow KDE contributors personally where they live, you don't really know where over the world (or even in your home country) KDE

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

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

Re: KDE Licensing Policy Updates

Certainly not. AGPL is like GPL in that sense, with the extra rule that you must publish the source code even if you're only giving access over the network and not distributing binaries. I don't think an AGPL library makes much sense though. ​ALGPL makes sense then :) ​ On

Re: KDE Licensing Policy Updates

On 20.09.2016 19:52, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: 2016-09-20 14:04 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Riddell : Added: ''Applications which are intended to be run on a server'' can be licenced under the GNU AGPL 3.0 or later Rationale: KDE Store code is under AGPL Question: should this be an

Re: Creating a map of KDE contributors?

On 20.09.2016 13:49, Jonathan Riddell wrote: Gnome already do this https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide Nice! Though a zoomable map would be nicer, because on that map it's a bit difficult to distinguish cities in more crowded countries.

Creating a map of KDE contributors?

Hi everyone, I recently realized that unless you ask fellow KDE contributors personally where they live, you don't really know where over the world (or even in your home country) KDE is spread. I think this is a pity, given that knowing that would allow us to, among other things - show the

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

On 21.08.2016 22:17, Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Monday 01 August 2016 12:05:25 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: On 01.08.2016 11:20, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Thank you for doing this. I am baffled by the extreme coherence between answers of contributors and of users. Seems like a perfect match

Official "Going to Akademy" banner by Ivan Čukić

Dear community, as most of you know, each year, there is a banner for people who go to Akademy to put into their blog posts (or on their social media profiles or wherever) so that the world sees which cool people they can meet there if they're going, and/or donate to KDE so those people can

Cleaning up mailing lists?

Hi everyone, recently I went through lists.kde.org and saw that there are lots of lists there for some short-term projects in the past, or for projects which have long since been abandoned. Given that it probably doesn't give a good impression if someone subscribes to one of those lists only

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

On 01.08.2016 11:20, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Thank you for doing this. I am baffled by the extreme coherence between answers of contributors and of users. Seems like a perfect match. Indeed, I was equally surprised by that. It is true, though (I've just re-checked the data to be 100% sure).

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

On 29.07.2016 23:27, Alexander Neundorf wrote: Yes, probably. How to interpret other results ? E.g. "Importance of goals". Do we consider the difference between 4.5 ("read as many users as possible" and "convince users to switch away from proprietary") and 5.5 ("do our part to promote

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

For those who follow these lists only through archives or digests and therefore did not get the attachment, here's the link to the PDF: https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/JAefwOmCRSB6qp9 and the original ODP: https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/O3KZRDECua8h9wF Cheers, Thomas

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

On 29.07.2016 08:57, Mirko Boehm - KDE wrote: Hello Thomas, On 29 Jul 2016, at 01:04, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> wrote: I'm sorry for taking so long with the survey analysis (analysis and documentation of survey results always end up taking longer than expected), bu

Re: [kde-community] KDE Sysadmin and GPG Encryption

On 27.07.2016 00:17, Jeff Mitchell wrote: I would avoid reading much, if anything at all, into what Boudhayan wrote, both from the perspective of the sysadmin team and even Boudhayan himself. --Jeff I don't see any "reading into" in any of the replies so far. People have just reacted to

Re: [kde-community] DigitalOcean is now a sponsor!

On 05.07.2016 21:36, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: Hi Guys, I'm excited to announce that DigitalOcean is sponsoring the KDE Community. Under their open source software sponsoring programme [1], they've very kindly set us up to use computing resources free of charge. Awesome news! Is this sponsorship

Re: [kde-community] Randa Meetings fundraising - please spread

Hi Sandro, going to the fundraiser website, I noticed that it is out of date: It still talks about Randa 2016 being in the future. Shouldn't it be updated, and instead of talking about what we _will_ do there, talk about what _has been done_ there, and than changing the message to "If you

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this! : Feedback on survey draft

On 16.06.2016 13:32, sabayon11 wrote: Very interesting survey. I found some issues very controversial. > ...reach as many users as possible, regardless of which operating systems, applications or services they currently use I say no, focus on quality. Be realistic. Don't take to much on your

[kde-community] Please participate in our survey for input on KDE's Mission

Dear fellow KDE contributors, as already hinted at in the article about KDE's Vision [1], the next step in setting our path into the future is defining KDE's Mission statement. Right after our Vision was published, a group of people started drafting a Mission statement and discussing it on the

Re: [kde-community] Final review for the KDE Mission survey

On 13.06.2016 22:42, Alexander Neundorf wrote: A few comments: I think the questions should be pointing a bit more toward the future path, i.e. instead "How useful is it or would it be for KDE's ..." maybe "How useful is it for KDE's future to..." ? The way the questions and answers were

[kde-community] Final review for the KDE Mission survey

Hi everyone, thank you again for the feedback on the KDE Mission survey! I have tried to implement the feedback to the best of my abilities. You can find the updated survey (still) here: http://survey.kde.org/index.php/858172/lang-en In order to get the survey out the door soon, I'd prefer to

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this! : Feedback on survey draft

On Dienstag, 24. Mai 2016 01:01:13 CEST Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > Hi, > > On 23 May 2016 at 19:28, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> wrote: > > 3. Added another question for the contributors "Which category or > > categories of projects have you contribut

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this! : Feedback on survey draft

On Montag, 23. Mai 2016 17:03:11 CEST Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:43:12 PM CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > I have created a survey draft at > > http://survey.kde.org/index.php/858172/lang-en > > > > Now please everybody click through it an

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this! : Feedback on survey draft

On Montag, 23. Mai 2016 07:37:49 CEST Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Sunday, May 22, 2016 7:29:22 PM CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > > 1.- I believe that mobile/desktop convergence is not an emerging trend > > > anymore. > > > > > > 2.- We do an innov

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this! : Feedback on survey draft

On Sonntag, 22. Mai 2016 15:38:39 CEST Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: > One of our historical problems, in my opinion, has been our little > engagement with the "commercial world". Words can help or holding us > back from turning up side down our current situation. > > Two examples: > > I

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this! : Feedback on survey draft

On Samstag, 21. Mai 2016 17:25:06 CEST Marta Rybczynska wrote: > I get: > Error > > We are sorry but you don't have permissions to do this. Ah yes, sorry, I had deactivated it to make changes and then forgot to activate it again. Should work again now!

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this! : Feedback on survey draft

On Freitag, 20. Mai 2016 00:14:36 CEST Alexander Neundorf wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 18 May 2016 23:43:12 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > ... > > > I have created a survey draft at > > http://survey.kde.org/index.php/858172/lang-en > > > > Now please every

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

On Dienstag, 17. Mai 2016 12:33:25 CEST Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > 2016-05-17 5:55 GMT-03:00 Marco Martin : > > Hi all, > > Right now many groups are using Telegram as their primary communication > > medium due to some limitations in IRC (mainly due to the ease of pasting > >

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this! : Feedback on survey draft

On Dienstag, 17. Mai 2016 22:06:30 CEST you wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > thank you for reminding me of the email I had been wanting to write today: > > To be honest, I don't think the reach of this mailing list is the problem. > > I've heard from quite a few people who have been following this > >

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this!

On Montag, 16. Mai 2016 22:59:59 CEST you wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On Tuesday 10 May 2016 22:48:01 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 10, 2016 17:18:39 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > ... > > > > Both positions are perfectly valid, of course. Now the problem i

Re: [kde-community] Does KDE attempt to attract experienced contributors?

On Freitag, 13. Mai 2016 11:06:18 CEST Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Eike Hein wrote: > > On 05/13/2016 06:50 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > >> I do not mean to drag KDE experts away, but it seems that freelancing > >> platforms have become more and more common.

Re: [kde-community] Open Public Consultation: Revision of the European Interoperability Framework

On Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2016 15:20:29 CEST you wrote: > On Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2016 11:25:00 CEST Jos van den Oever wrote: > > The EU is asking input from its citizens on the next version of the > > European Interoperability Framework. > > > > KDE has a traditional position in Europe and would benefit

Re: [kde-community] Open Public Consultation: Revision of the European Interoperability Framework

On Mittwoch, 11. Mai 2016 11:25:00 CEST Jos van den Oever wrote: > The EU is asking input from its citizens on the next version of the European > Interoperability Framework. > > KDE has a traditional position in Europe and would benefit from a clear > direction towards completely open standards

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this!

On Montag, 9. Mai 2016 22:49:15 CEST Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > Let's finish our mission before we lose interest ;) > > thanks for pushing :-) > > No objections from my side, just a few thoughts, in no specific order: Glad to hear :) > * I don't like the term "reach where they are", to me

Re: [kde-community] Telegram Relay Service

On Montag, 9. Mai 2016 20:07:02 CEST Bhushan Shah wrote: > On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeif...@kde.org> wrote: > > Stupid question: How does one file a ticket for sysadmin via Phabricator? > > All I've ever used to file sysadmin tickets is > &g

Re: [kde-community] Telegram Relay Service

On Freitag, 6. Mai 2016 17:58:46 CEST Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > Hi all, > > KDE Sysadmin is excited to announce the availability of a Telegram <-> > IRC relay service. We now have the capability to sync messages both > ways between an IRC channel and a Telegram group. > > Currently, this service

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this!

On Freitag, 29. April 2016 14:32:33 CEST Olivier Churlaud wrote: > > As Aleix said, what do you mean exactly with that ? > > I could interpret it as > > - sources are available > > - it is easy to build > > - it's highly configurable > > - data is stored in easily accessible formats (text, or

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this!

On Donnerstag, 28. April 2016 22:43:02 CEST Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > Does the order of the sections imply priorities ? > E.g. "tinkering" comes before "presence on all device classes" ? Not really, I just put them in the order they came to my mind. If you think a different order makes

Re: [kde-community] KDE Mission - let's do this!

Hi everyone, as we've found during the vision creation process that having a concrete draft to work from can streamline the discussion, I tried to come up with one. It goes quite into detail, but I think this is necessary in order to be useful as practical guidance. To fulfill our vision, KDE

Re: [kde-community] A new home for Mozilla Thunderbird at KDE?

On Dienstag, 26. April 2016 16:03:43 CEST Jos van den Oever wrote: > Hello KDE-ers, > > Mozilla Thunderbird is looking for a new home [1]. They are evaluating a > number of options. KDE was not in the initial list of options, but I think > KDE and Thunderbird would be an excellent fit. > > This

Re: [kde-community] user stats for Neon

On Mittwoch, 20. April 2016 15:49:12 CEST Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: > Hi, > > (long mail) > > I went through this same discussions a few years ago in openSUSE. Let > me outline my personal experience/point of view through that > experience. > > At some point, openSUSE was in crossroad

Re: [kde-community] user stats for Neon

On Freitag, 15. April 2016 17:46:45 CEST Albert Vaca wrote: > What's the problem with pinging the Neon servers? Any system already does > way more than that when checking for updates, not to mention when you > connect to a website, or even IRC. > > How can this ping be violating any privacy if we

Re: [kde-community] user stats for Neon

On Donnerstag, 14. April 2016 14:36:21 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 04:18:30PM +0200, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > Any potentially privacy-sensitive information transfer should be opt-in, > > not opt-out. > > I'd assume that the vast majority of users

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