Re: Post-MegaRelease projects

2024-02-27 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 23 February 2024 03:27:00 CET Jin Liu wrote: > Another thing I'd like to explore is to have some universal way to > programmatically change KDE settings. This is a thing that I'd really like to have -- but probably cannot contribute to -- also for Calamares (a Linux distro installer).

Re: Copyright years (and minimizing the burden on developers and maintainers)

2023-02-04 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, 4 February 2023 20:58:30 CET Toni Asensi Esteve wrote: > Do you think that changing and reviewing too many changes every year is > worth it? What do you think that would be better? One of the best places *right now* to ask this question is the Legal & Licensing room at FOSDEM, in

Welcoming Thiago Sueto, documentation contractor

2023-01-31 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi KDE community, KDE e.V. supports the KDE community in what it does -- making KDE software and all the things around it. KDE e.V. employs people to organize events (and help out with sprints), integrate hardware (if you are a vendor of a new device), measure the ecological impact (via the

Re: BSD 3 Clause?

2022-12-24 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 21 December 2022 10:12:03 CET Ingo Klöcker wrote: > So, unless you must use BSD-3-Clause, please stick to BSD-2-Clause. This, twice. Keep in mind, also, that SPDX lists a half-dozen BSD-3-Clause variants. Do not use them at all. If you must use a BSD-3-Clause (because upstream, or

Re: Season of KDE 2023, perhaps?

2022-11-03 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 2 November 2022 14:01:51 CET Johnny Jazeix wrote: > This is a shameless copy-paste from Adriaan last year: You absolutely have my blessing for that. I won't have time this year at *all* for SoK things, but wish all y'all the best in finding cool things to work on (my attention

Reminder: Akademy visas

2022-07-28 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Just a general reminder: if you're asking for a visa for Akademy, be on time. We (well, Akademy folks) will be contacting the people that have already asked for one Real Soon for details. [ade] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Season of KDE 2022, perhaps?

2021-11-03 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi all, Season of KDE happens when we want it to, if we want it to. SoK is a mentorship-and-participation programme, where we encourage new participants in KDE software. Take a look at https://season.kde.org/ for more details. For the start of this season, we're looking for people who

Re: Extending the license policy to include Apache-2.0

2021-09-16 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 15 September 2021 21:42:24 CEST Alexander Potashev wrote: > Parts of https://invent.kde.org/websites/aether-sass/ are licensed > under Apache License 2.0. This disagrees with the KDE licensing > policy. > """ > 4. Source files that are part of a library with a public API which is >

Re: Chat blocking under 16s from KDE

2021-08-06 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 6 August 2021 17:05:46 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Monday, 2 August 2021 10:58:20 BST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > I've been notified by a 13 year old who wants to help KDE that he is > > unable > > to log into our chat setup on Matrix because the privacy policy blocks > > anyone under

Re: kde.modular.im: "I am at least 16 years old. "

2021-08-03 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Tuesday, 3 August 2021 10:14:06 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Thursday, 21 February 2019 15:21:28 BST Eike Hein wrote: > > Hi, > > > > the e.V. board will definitely discuss this issue as well in this week's > > call, to put some thought into the legal side vis-a-vis GDPR compliance. > > I

Job opening at Tuxedo Computers

2021-07-08 Thread Adriaan de Groot
For Qt/C++ programmers there's a potentially interesting opening at https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Infos/Jobs/Software-Developers-m/f/d.tuxedo As described it's a pretty broad opening, but I gather that Tuxedo is also doing GUI development. I'll also remind everyone that

Re: KDE Documentation & new Job

2021-07-05 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Dear Carl, On Monday, 5 July 2021 17:16:20 CEST Carl Schwan wrote: > Starting next week I will be starting a new job at Nextcloud and > will be leaving my current job at the KDE e.V. We're sorry to see you go so much sooner than expected. You crossed off a number of items for the documentation

Re: The status of freenode (the IRC network used by KDE)

2021-06-07 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday, 27 May 2021 10:58:00 CEST Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 11:36:01 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > > On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 09:56:08 BST Dmitry Kazakov wrote: > > > Is there any KDE-wide decision on that? Is there any work done on > > > mi

Re: The status of freenode (the IRC network used by KDE)

2021-05-27 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 11:36:01 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 May 2021 09:56:08 BST Dmitry Kazakov wrote: > > Is there any KDE-wide decision on that? Is there any work done on > > migration > > from freenode to libera? > > Only a coordinated change would be good for our

Re: KDiff3 release

2021-05-03 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Monday, 3 May 2021 13:00:11 CEST kde-announce-apps-requ...@kde.org wrote: >1. KDiff3 1.9.0 released (Michael Reeves) > > From: Michael Reeves > > KDiff3 1.9.0 is now released. > It can be found at https://download.kde.org/stable/kdiff3/ > kdiff3-1.9.0.tar.xz.mirrorlist > Yay! This

Re: All About the Apps Goal

2021-04-25 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 23 April 2021 11:58:07 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > KDE's All About the Apps Goal hopes to use modern methods of getting our > apps to users. Let's reboot this conversation and the discussion in the MR. I'll give it a shot: === The KDE community selected "All About the Apps" as

It *is* all about the apps! (Apps goal)

2021-04-24 Thread Adriaan de Groot
KDE has many fabulous applications, and getting them from our source-control system to people's desks and laps is -- in many ways -- the whole **point** of the KDE community. It is now *much* easier to find the applications -- on the website [2] and though Discover and GHNS. There's a workboard

Compose all the things! (Wayland goal)

2021-04-24 Thread Adriaan de Groot
The future (of X11) is here [1]. It has been here for years, really. Wayland work grinds along, with Plasma working along with defining new Wayland protocols, bugfixes all over the stack and application-mulching too. For the people who "Wayland all day" the goal has been reached, maybe, but

Watch all the things! (Consistency goal)

2021-04-24 Thread Adriaan de Groot
One of the KDE goals these years is the "Consistency" [1]. Niccolò has been doing really cool things all *over* the place, most recently with a video series. There is Niccolò's blog-page-like-thing with all the videos [2], and Niccolò's YouTube channel [3] is worth a look, too. If you don't

Yay for Merge Requests (Doc Writer)

2021-03-25 Thread Adriaan de Groot
You know what's cool? The community stepping up to help with things. I added the Documentation Writer job ad to the e.V. site yesterday, and I copy-pasted part of the text from the PDF into markdown for the post. There was a typo in there (that none of the board proof-reading had spotted; it's

Thank you, CWG

2021-03-25 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Earlier, on this list, Jos van den Oever wrote: > In KDE, there is CWG of which we can be proud that deals with > situations like this with respect for the people on all sides of > a situation. Which was well said, and I think it deserves repetition: the existence of the CWG is an important

Qt6 ports of applications

2021-03-16 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi all! I'm starting to see Qt6-based applications in the Open source wild. For instance, https://github.com/qxmpp-project/qxmpp/releases/tag/v1.4.0 https://audacious-media-player.org/news/51-audacious-4-1-released These are generally "preliminary Qt6" versions, since there's

Re: The Qt Company is looking for a Community Manager

2021-03-10 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Monday, 8 March 2021 01:30:58 CET Aleix Pol wrote: > Here's more information: > https://www.qt.io/open-positions/community-manager-1614870577 I'd like to hightlight some of the tasks in this role: As a Community Manager we expect You to: Encourage use of Qt in various open-source projects

Re: [OT] Hybrid open-source licenses?

2021-01-25 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Sunday, 24 January 2021 20:36:28 CET Bogdan Tanygin wrote: > Maybe you could advise whether it's worth digging in the following > direction? I'm thinking a lot about the possibility of introducing a > certain deserved reward of the open-source community efforts to an OSS > license itself while

Re: [OT] Opinions about licensing approach for permissive/weak-copyleft projects

2020-11-20 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi Filipe, On Tuesday, 17 November 2020 19:27:32 CET Filipe Saraiva wrote: > The reviewer proposes an approach for software licensing. In summary, > s/he believes that if the project is using exclusively permissive or > weak copyleft licenses, there is no need to put a license for the entire >

LAS is on!

2020-11-11 Thread Adriaan de Groot
If your second-half-of-the-week isn't booked yet, tune in to the Linux Application Summit! It's online this year (rather than in lovely Barcelona, like last), and is a lot like Akademy except the broader *application* ecosystem on Linux, of GNOME and KDE and other apps. Blurb:

Re: Call for Mentors (and Admins) for Season of KDE 2021

2020-10-24 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, 24 October 2020 13:44:10 CEST Carl Schwan wrote: > > - added Calamares projects (there's a dozen hacktoberfest issues > > available, all of which are also suitable SoK things) > > Thanks a lot for this We are still looking for mentors so if anyone has a > bit of time and good

Re: Call for Mentors (and Admins) for Season of KDE 2021

2020-10-13 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday, 10 September 2020 16:11:08 CEST Caio Jordão Carvalho wrote: > As discussed in the SoK/GSoC BoF that we had yesterday, our plan is > to start the next edition of Season of KDE soon. But first we need to > include > some ideas in our ideas page and, most importantly, *we need mentors*!

Re: BoF Notes: How Python can help KDE Development?

2020-09-13 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On 2020 setula d. 12id 23:02:27 CEST Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Samstag, 12. September 2020 16:13:29 CEST Cristián Maureira-Fredes wrote: > > * Kross > > > > - Since it's based on QtScript, there might an option to evaluate of > >Python can replace it, since QtScript > > was deprecated.

OSI "State of the Source" CfP closes soon-ish

2020-07-01 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi all, If you've given thought to presentations at Akademy -- for the KDE community -- you might also want to think about the Open Source Initiative online conference as well; this happens in the same time frame, and it's general OSS (with an emphasis on licensing) rather than KDE-focused.

Re: The KDEPIM / Akonadi situation

2020-06-13 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:21:24 CEST Volker Krause wrote: > Thanks Ade! It looked like Dan had fixed the build error this morning > though, I see things being green here: > https://build.kde.org/job/Applications/view/ > Everything/job/akonadi/job/kf5-qt5%20FreeBSDQt5.14/ - where did I miss the

Re: The KDEPIM / Akonadi situation

2020-06-13 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, 13 June 2020 09:29:36 CEST Volker Krause wrote: > I have finite time and prioritized what seemed to have most wide-spread > impact (all of Android and all of Flatpak vs. Akonadi/FreeBSD), And, as time and circumstance permits, the PIM team prods me and/or tcberner to take an extra

Re: Akademy 2020 Survey

2020-05-13 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 13 May 2020 11:14:06 CEST mary.allyson.alexand...@gmail.com wrote: > We want to hear from you! There is still time to tell the Akademy Team and > Program Committee what you would like to see at Akademy 2020! Don’t wait! > It only takes a few minutes to fill out the survey >

Re: Information regarding upcoming Gitlab Migration

2020-04-29 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On 2020 prilula d. 29id 06:46:55 CEST Bhushan Shah wrote: > We have gotten a request for namespacing from projects on multiple > occassion, in cgit our workaround has always been that we prefix the > repo name with namespace- (i.e wikitolearn-courses-backend). > > While this works out with our

Re: Information regarding upcoming Gitlab Migration

2020-04-29 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On 2020 prilula d. 28id 13:35:22 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > Would some form of git alias/custom command script that works similar > to the following be suitable? > > git kde-clone skrooge > > That script would then search the appropriate groups (ignoring any > personal repositories including

Re: Information regarding upcoming Gitlab Migration

2020-04-28 Thread Adriaan de Groot
There are a whole bunch of considerations and use-cases being discussed at once in this thread, and Leinir's post made me think a bit about different actors can interact with "the collection of repositories". One actor is "tooling", as Albert has pointed out. Whatever the resulting structure

Re: Akademy 2020 Online

2020-04-16 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday, 16 April 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 > > > > https://dot.kde.org/2020/04/15/dont-miss-akademy-2020-going-online

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-08 Thread Adriaan de Groot
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Reminder, FOSS-North march 29th

2020-03-02 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi KDE folks, Just a reminder that there's a KDE community event for whoever would like to participate, at the end of March in Gothenburg, Sweden. If you'd like to present something, meet Swedish KDE or FreeBSD people, or just have coffee and cake with Open Source people, do stop by -- or

Reminder: FOSS-North

2020-02-08 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi all, Almost lost in all the OMGFOSDEM noise, is FOSS-North, which returns this year. The CFP is still open .. only for a short while more, so if you're in the area, do send something in. Or if you're not in the area. There will be a KDE community day / micro-sprint at the event as well, so

Re: A safe haven for the community's memories

2020-01-27 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Monday, 27 January 2020 07:27:42 CET Piyush Aggarwal wrote: > > Almost always, photographs, videos and other forms of digital memorabilia > > are so badly dispersed among the attendees, many of us have barely any > > photographs from the event. The only way to get the photos we want is by > >

Re: Does anyone have experience with kiwitcms -- an open source test case management system?

2020-01-09 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday, 9 January 2020 16:15:53 CET Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > Hi, > > I was just pointed at https://kiwitcms.org/ -- finding a way to organize > testing is something I've felt krita has needed for a long time, and this > looks pretty comprehensive and integrated. Is there anyone in our

Reminder: please maintain sprints pages

2020-01-02 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Here's a wee reminder for people who organize sprints to please add a page to https://community.kde.org/Sprints at least naming the sprint and mentioning a result of that sprint. For 2019 the second half of the year is a bit empty -- only KF6? The sprints page is one of the places where

Re: KDE e.V. Community Report for 2018 available

2019-11-28 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 27 November 2019 20:05:51 CET Aleix Pol wrote: > Dear KDE community, > Some of you already saw it at Akademy, but we wanted to make sure that > you were all aware of all the great things we did last year 2018 > > https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2018/ > > Please take a look and share

Come to FOSDEM to learn more!

2019-11-23 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi all! We've been confirmed for a booth at FOSDEM 2020, https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-11-19-accepted-stands/ This will be in our traditional spot. Here's a reminder to fill in your presence at the booth or at talks or just at the largest Free Software event in europe.

Linux App Summit 2019 -- reports

2019-11-22 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi everyone, The Linux App Summit happened last week, https://linuxappsummit.org/ . It's about building up an ecosystem of applications on Linux, beyond the "traditional" applications that we deliver, and the way those applications are delivered. Jonathan wrote about it:

Re: Requesting for guidance

2019-11-09 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, November 9, 2019 10:45:00 PM CET Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Your message from october seems to have gone unanswered -- sorry about that. (Well, Valorie and Nate had already answered quickly, which is what I kind of *expected* to have happened, but I didn't see those messages bef

Re: Requesting for guidance

2019-11-09 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Monday, October 21, 2019 5:34:32 PM CET Yukti Khosla wrote: > As a beginner, I am a little confused as to how I should start > contributing. I am well versed in Python, C, C++, and Java. Hi Yukti, Your message from october seems to have gone unanswered -- sorry about that. The general

Re: General Infrastructure Maintainability: API and EBN

2019-11-09 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, November 9, 2019 10:03:37 PM CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > The problem isn't just the complicated legacy nature of them, but also > how fragile and impossible to maintain they are. Just as an example, the EBN (hm .. I no longer redirect EBN.org to the KDE site) still embeds a comment in

Re: Sysadmin Load Reduction: Legacy Compatibility Redirects

2019-11-09 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, November 9, 2019 1:02:01 AM CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > research.kde.org This content is on the community wiki. KDE-Research went defunct with the death of Claire Lotion and when Paul, Sebas and myself stopped doing (EU) research projects around KDE. So I agree with retiring this

Re: Sysadmin Load Reduction: Legacy Compatibility Redirects

2019-11-09 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, November 9, 2019 1:02:01 AM CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > solaris.kde.org As the last maintainer of solaris packaging for KDE, I made that point to techbase a long time ago. I agree with retiring this redirect. [ade] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Reminder, FOSDEM participation

2019-11-01 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi all, Here's a friendly reminder that FOSDEM is just three months away; possibly our biggest get-together after Akademy. I know there's still QtWS LAS GH KF6 and conf.kde.in between here and there, but still: sign up, volunteer, plan your attendance early so we all can figure out how to do

A reminder for funding applications

2019-10-28 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Dear KDE community, Here's a last-minute reminder that you (as an individual developer) can apply for funding to work on "cool stuff on the internet". There was a talk at Akademy by Michiel, but there are other sources, too. Here are two (with deadlines nov. 1 and dec. 1): > The Internet

Re: Participate at the LAS 2019!

2019-08-29 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Monday, August 26, 2019 9:44:25 AM EDT Aleix Pol wrote: > As you'll well know, we're organising the LinuxAppSummit 2019 in > Barcelona between the 12th and 15th November. I'd like to help out (independent of whether I send in a talk proposal). [ade] signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: vote invitation sent out for goal voting

2019-08-23 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 23 August 2019 09:13:11 CEST Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > > Sorry, these all are... Irrelevant, incomprehensible, ineligible or > > inconsiderable. > Care to explain why you think that is? (Not intending to put words in Boud's mouth here, and trying not to opine on any specific

FOSS-North report

2019-04-16 Thread Adriaan de Groot
[[ Since my blog is down, this is the all the report we'll see about FOSS- North; do read Augustin's notes as well, though, https://toscalix.com/ 2019/04/14/scale-summit-foss-north-and-some-routine-changes/ ]] # Background The KDE community was invited to the FOSS-North [1] conference again this

Re: KDE at Kirchentag in Dortmund

2019-03-30 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 29 March 2019 23:01:27 CET Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote: > If you wish to help organising, then you could maybe look into the KDE > material that should for the free software sub-booth (best coordinate with > Johannes, how is from Dortmund and organising that part of the joint booth).

FOSS-North 2019

2019-03-26 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Reminders, FOSS-North is coming up, april 7-8-9. https://foss-north.se/2019/ You can come for the community day (7th) and talk about KDE stuff and CMake stuff and C++ stuff with bits of the KDE community and the Gothenburg C++ group; you can come for the conference (8th and 9th) and see

Re: KDE now has its own Matrix infrastructure

2019-02-28 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday, 28 February 2019 16:38:30 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I get some unitemised t-shirts from old Akademys which is > appreciated. .. and leftover QtWS shirts, and some other items that I had made. I forget where I reported that -- I can't spot it on this list, so maybe I sent that

Re: Licensing policy change proposal

2019-01-28 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Monday, 28 January 2019 13:23:36 CET Krešimir Čohar wrote: > Why not? As far as Unsplash goes, their only restriction is not to start a > competing service, which is not even remotely what we are trying to do. > Surely that is a reasonable and acceptable restriction. It's not unlike the >

Re: Coming to FOSS-North?

2019-01-21 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday, 10 January 2019 12:35:45 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Since it's the beginning of the year, let's plan out some events! At the > beginning of april there's FOSS-North, in the beautiful [1] city of I have started a page for this under KDE's Promo/Events/ wiki page.

Coming to FOSS-North?

2019-01-10 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi all, Since it's the beginning of the year, let's plan out some events! At the beginning of april there's FOSS-North, in the beautiful [1] city of Gothenburg. Last year KDE had a booth at the conference, and I gave a talk on KDE governance. This year, we can have -- if we plan something -- a

Coming to FOSDEM?

2019-01-10 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi all, Here's a little reminder that there is a FOSDEM coordination page: https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/FOSDEM/2019 It would be nice if the list of people were complete-ish, so we (as a community) know who to look out for and look forward to. If you're available to help at

QtWS attendees

2018-11-08 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi all, Now that some other events are past, it's time to ramp up preparation for QtWS in Berlin. You can find the task in KDE Phabricator at https://phabricator.kde.org/T9650 and the conference website is https://www.qtworldsummit.com/2018/berlin/ Most important though, it

Re: pseudonymous contributions to KDE

2018-09-19 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 6:02:22 AM EDT Luigi Toscano wrote: > Jonathan Riddell ha scritto: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 07:38:35PM +0200, Jos van den Oever wrote: > >> Can one sign a Fiduciary License Agreement under pseudonym? > > > > Same as above on the whole. At least in Scotland

Re: pseudonymous contributions to KDE

2018-09-18 Thread Adriaan de Groot
of legal statement; don't do that with a pseudonym. On the other hand, my FLA says "I, Adriaan de Groot" and refers to commits done by user adridg, email gr...@kde.org .. which are essentiually pseudonyms for me. So .. > The FSF allows people to use a pseudonym publ

Re: New KDE.ru website

2018-09-18 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 17:39:37 CEST Ilya Bizyaev wrote: > Today the Russian-speaking KDE community proudly launches its updated > website, KDE.ru. Вот очен хорошо! And so, having exhausted all the Russian I can produce at the drop-of-a-hat, congratulations on having created a slick and

Re: Closing NEEDSINFO bugs after 30 days

2018-09-17 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Monday, 17 September 2018 20:01:15 CEST Andrew Crouthamel wrote: > This is already a policy at many other projects such as The Document > Foundation, Chromium, and Fedora. Additionally, several of our developers > within KDE are already doing this. This depends on the state change *to*

Re: ELC conference

2018-09-08 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, 8 September 2018 10:23:31 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Friday, 7 September 2018 21:41:17 BST Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > So, who's available (24-26 october 2018) and willing? > > According to their website it seems to be Sunday 21st - Wednesday 24th? (+ >

QtWS conference

2018-09-07 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi community, This year QtWS (the Qt World Summit) is a slightly smaller affair than it was last year, 2 days in Berlin. Once again we'd like to be there with a booth, so that we can show off our dedication -- and remind people that KDE is a constant within the Qt ecosystem. QtWS is an

ELC conference

2018-09-07 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hey community, The Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) is in Edinburgh this year, and we'd like to be there with a booth. This is an industry conference, with lots of things on the edge of what we usually do: embedded, automotive, aviation .. but all stuff that we have some experience in, and in

Re: freenode #live conference in Bristol: speakers, booth?

2018-09-07 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Monday, 27 August 2018 13:10:52 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > this year the second freenode #live conference will take place in Bristol > 3rd and 4rd of November, 2018. For details: https://freenode.live/ There's not been a lot of community uptake on this; I think it would be cool, though.

Re: freenode #live conference in Bristol: speakers, booth?

2018-08-30 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Monday, 27 August 2018 13:10:52 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > this year the second freenode #live conference will take place in Bristol > 3rd and 4rd of November, 2018. For details: https://freenode.live/ Huh, if I catch the train right now I could be in Bristol before midnight (my measure

Re: Nominate key KDE frameworks and packages for inclusion in the OIN Linux System Definition

2018-08-30 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 29 August 2018 18:53:39 CEST Mirko Boehm wrote: > KDE software is covered in the definition, but not in the latest version. > KDE 3 and 4 packages are included. Does any mainstream distro still ship any KDE3 stuff? Does any mainstream distro still ship any KDE4 stuff? (FWIW, I've

Re: FOSDEM: call to action!

2018-08-24 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 24 August 2018 21:14:11 CEST Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > Do we actually have any numbers about how much merchandise we can get > through during Fosdem? I know that my Krita tat was all gone by the end of > Saturday... We can go through a few dozen -- say 40 -- T-shirts if we have the KDE

Re: Lakademy 2018 - Call for attendees

2018-08-23 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 12:27:00 CEST Aracele Torres wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Just a quick remind that today is the last day to fill this form with your > info if you are interested to attend to LaKademy 2018. Oh, that's too bad: I talked with Aracele at Akademy, and weould surely like

Re: FOSDEM: call to action!

2018-08-22 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:23:32 CEST Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On woensdag 22 augustus 2018 11:54:06 CEST Pau Garcia Quiles wrote: > > Guys, > > > > I will not be requesting a stand or devroom for KDE, Desktops or > > anything for FOSDEM 2019. I don't even know if I will be there. > > Aw...

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

2018-08-20 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Mostly I'm repeating this item from Cornelius because it follows so well from what Valorie *originally* asked, rather than a bunch of misintepretations and discussing-something-else. On Monday, 20 August 2018 10:58:05 CEST Cornelius Schumacher wrote: > I don't think that anybody has a problem

Re: Calling all contributors: Please help us with the EduCode2018 event

2018-08-03 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, August 3, 2018 12:38:24 PM EDT Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 14:44 Paul Brown wrote: > > > > > https://phabricator.kde.org/T8122 >From the "Stuff we need" section: * Stickers are a sticking point, as always -- perhaps

Re: Calling all contributors: Please help us with the EduCode2018 event

2018-08-03 Thread Adriaan de Groot
: > On viernes, 3 de agosto de 2018 17:04:18 (CEST) Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > On Friday, 27 July 2018 11:35:51 CEST Sivan Greenberg wrote: > > > I’d do it if I had been living in Europe..sounds like an awesome > > > opportunity with importance at the educational and societa

Re: Calling all contributors: Please help us with the EduCode2018 event

2018-08-03 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 27 July 2018 11:35:51 CEST Sivan Greenberg wrote: > I’d do it if I had been living in Europe..sounds like an awesome > opportunity with importance at the educational and societal for the open > nature of education computing. > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 14:44 Paul Brown wrote: > >

Re: Fuzzy searching against KDE repositories

2018-05-06 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Sunday, 6 May 2018 17:04:24 CEST Dimitris Kardarakos wrote: > PS1: If similar projects that I am not aware of currently exist in KDE > we may consider using them instead of this approach (or join efforts if > they are compatible). My intention is just to start a discussion about > how big data,

FOSS-North

2018-04-25 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi KDE Community and e.V., On the weekend of 21-22 april 2018 I traveled to Sweden to the FOSS-North conference, in Gothenburg. I went there for two reasons: - to give a talk (submitted via the CfP and accepted) - to run a KDE booth (asked by the conference org) The conference had ~150

Re: Neon Pinebook Remix as part of KDE

2018-04-11 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Wednesday, 11 April 2018 23:13:45 CEST, Rohan Garg wrote: IANAL but you can find the EULA for the proprietary blobs here [1] [1] http://files.pine64.org/doc/MALI/MALI%20EULA.pdf Where the relevant bit is this: [you may ..] 1.1 (ii) subject to Clause 1.2, distribute the whole of the

Re: Let's get rid of UNCONFIRMED/CONFIRMED

2018-04-10 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:18:07 CEST, Nate Graham wrote: OPEN -> Nobody's looked at it yet TRIAGED -> Somebody looked at it but couldn't reproduce it yet CONFIRMED -> Somebody looked at it and was able to reproduce it Is bugzilla really that hard to configure with a workflow? I ran into

Re: KDE stand at FOSS-North

2018-03-26 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Sunday, 11 March 2018 10:14:13 CET, Helio Chissini de Castro wrote: Hi Adrian. In an event to have my talk accepted, i help you on the stand as well. Helio, my fine Bavaro-Brasilian friend, it would be fun to see you up in the frozen North. And we can tag-team the booth them (there is a

Re: KDE goals IRC office hour

2018-03-19 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Sunday, 18 March 2018 11:43:00 CET, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: Thanks also to Raphael Catolino for the original Docker work and for still keeping at it. This is valuable not only for KDE, but for LibreOffice as well while we evaluate this thing. So I was just playing with the Janitor

Re: KDE goals IRC office hour

2018-03-16 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 16 March 2018 16:07:20 CET, Adriaan de Groot wrote: I've now contacted the Janitor folks, so we'll see what can be updated and/or revised, and possibly start using it -- since it *does* sound like a very interesting service. Please chime in on the GH issue I've created to discuss

Re: KDE goals IRC office hour

2018-03-16 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 16 March 2018 13:10:02 CET, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: Ooo... k. That is highly weird. I've been wondering, how LibreOffice could get with the program "like the kool kids at KDE" and now it turns out KDE doesn't know it is in. You're too hip for your own good, it seems! We're so

Re: KDE goals IRC office hour

2018-03-16 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, 16 March 2018 09:20:26 CET, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: KDE Efforts: None WANTED: Maintaining KDE development environment image WANTED: Hosting Janitor containers for KDE Benefits: Development environments for KDE (hosted by IRILL) It seems the

KDE stand at FOSS-North

2018-03-10 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hey (or hej), I have submitted two talks to FOSS-North, a one (or two) day event in Gothenburg [1]. I would like to run a KDE stand there, with KDE demos and possibly ome merchandise. I brought this up earlier on this list. The event is april 22-23, that is a sunday and monday. Not ideal, I

Reminder for Akademy

2018-03-05 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi there people of the KDE community, Just a reminder that Akademy this year is reachable, in a big city, and in the middle of summer on (near) the banks of a beautiful river. Akademy should also have a strong programme of talks, workshops, and meetings. This is where you come in: talk about

Re: Opportunity: Promo banners for Kdenlive and Krita

2018-03-04 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Sunday, March 4, 2018 6:22:48 PM EST Ivana Isadora Devcic wrote: > Ryan from Inkscape shared this on Twitter - he made some seriously cool > banners for GIMP and Inkscape, and offered to make them for Kdenlive and > Krita, among others: > >

FOSS-North

2018-03-01 Thread Adriaan de Groot
While it's -8 in the Netherlands and the whole country hardly knows what to do, I'd like to point out it's warmer in Sweden. There's a one-day conference, FOSS-North, to be held late april. http://foss-north.se/2018/ The CfP is still open, so we could send in one or more talks about

Re: Mock-up of revised KDE Store

2018-03-01 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Friday, February 16, 2018 1:28:39 PM EST Scott Harvey wrote: > Here you go - a (very) rough draft of what kinds of things we can sell. > > https://www.cafepress.com/bdtokde > > I edited the CSS to add the background image (instead of the drab khaki the > template used) and threw together a

Re: Invitation to join FOSS Backstage 2018

2018-02-22 Thread Adriaan de Groot
rg> wrote: > > On Thursday, 22 February 2018 12:00:01 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote: > >> On Friday, February 9, 2018 3:33:24 PM EST Agnes Ratajczyk wrote: > >>> Dear KDE-Team, > >>> > >>> I'd like to invite you to join us for the first FOSS Backsta

Re: Volunteering to update the KDE Cafe Press Meta-Store

2018-02-15 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Hi Scott, On Thursday, 15 February 2018 05:15:12 CET Scott Harvey wrote: > I sent a similar message to the Community Working Group a few days ago, but > I think that might have been a little too high-level. Not so much high-level as probably the wrong bunch. The CWG is our group of tough

Re: FOSDEM retrospective

2018-02-08 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Thursday, 8 February 2018 20:15:48 CET tetris4 wrote: > My main suggestion for future improvement would be to be more prepared and > strategic. The main question to answer is: What does KDE want to achieve by > running a booth at a specific event? Well-said. There's two aspects: - why are we

FOSDEM retrospective

2018-02-05 Thread Adriaan de Groot
# The good - We were there - We were on time - People pitched in amazingly well, and we had the booth staffed with 2 or 3 people all the time; there was enough overlap also to take an hour off from the booth if needed. - The materials we brought to FOSDEM were sufficient to build the booth

A Quick Note on FOSDEM

2018-02-05 Thread Adriaan de Groot
Whoo! We survived the weekend. I'd like to give an enormous thanks to those who helped make the booth happen: Aleix, Boud, Clemens, Ingo, Irina, Jos, Jose, Laszlo, Lydia, Neofytos, Petra, Roman, Sune, Timothee, Tobias, Wolthera .. I'm sure there are people I'm forgetting to name here. Also a

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