Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - final version
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016, 7:00 AM Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > We've gone through two rounds of feedback and discussion now and I am > very happy with all the input we've collected. Thank you! Thomas, > sebas and I sat together and took all the feedback and merged it into > the final version. It is now: > > "A world in which everyone enjoys freedom and privacy and has control > over their digital life." > > Unless there are major objections within the next week I would like to > conclude the process and from now on use this as our vision statement. > Congratulations to everyone involved! I quite like this vision. :-) Much respect, Andrew > ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
My highlights are participating my first Akademy and our new little KDE User Group in Seattle. So much fun, so many nice people, Andrew On Fri Dec 19 2014 at 2:14:24 AM Boudewijn Rempt b...@valdyas.org wrote: Well, it's actually only in the January issue, but I got the PDF earlier this week... Krita has got 5 out of 5 and Artist's Choice in ImagineFX :-). The first public recognition for Krita outside the free software world -- and as far as I can tell, ImagineFX has in all its history only once has an article on a free software application, and that was ages ago!. On Fri, 19 Dec 2014, Lydia Pintscher wrote: Hey folks :) 2014 is coming to an end. This gives us some time for reflection. What are your KDE highlights of 2014? A team that kicked ass? A really good release? An event where you made great new friends? Something entirely different? My personal highlight of 2014 is that we have an amazing visual design and usability team that really gets what KDE is all about and makes our software look great and ready for many more users. Cheers Lydia PS: I am writing a year-in-review piece for the dot and this will be part of the input. -- Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher KDE e.V. Board of Directors / KDE Community Working Group http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] LISA/USENIX 14 Seattle Nov 9 - 14; exhibit Nov 1213
I'm definitely available to support any KDE presence at LinuxFestNW. I was there last time,and there wasn't any KDE presence there that I could find. Besides, any opportunity to connect with and support other local KDE folks is worth it I think. I'll definitely encourage support at our first meetup. Andrew On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Carl Symons csym...@kde.org wrote: On 09/29/2014 11:59 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Carl Symons carlsym...@gmail.com wrote: Hello KDE Community... especially those who are in US-Cascadia (aka The Pacific Northwest). KDE will have an exhibit space at the LISA 14 conference in Seattle[1]. Your participation is warmly invited. We will be presenting KDE software, along with other magic from the KDE Community. If you want to be part of this effort to publicize the Community and our technology, please let me know. The conference takes place from November 9th to 14th; the exhibition is on the 12th and 13th. We have been given access to the exhibition; the full conference is separate and not included in the sponsored passes. LISA is a big deal as can be seen from the current list of exhibitors[2]. We are leaders, and belong at the top of the tech world. Please come to LISA and help tell our story. Please let me know if you are interested and available to be part of this. Carl [1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14 [2] https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14/sponsors-and-exhibitors Love that we're going to be there. I don't see us on the list of exhibitors though? Was just approved by the LISA organizers. We're not on the sponsor/exhibitor list yet because some things don't happen by magic. I'll figure out a place to stay in Seattle so I can be closer, and help to staff the booth. In other local news, there is a new KDE meetup group: http://www.meetup.com/KDE-Users-Seattle/events/208207812/ I have been exploring the possibility of having KDE Cascadia II in conjunction with linuxfestnorthwest.org (April 25 26, 2015 in Bellingham). I won't be at the meetup, but I would be interested in knowing if the people at the meetup will support KDE Cascadia and attend. Last time there was only one solid supporter...elcaset. We can do better than that. Carl and the next weekend is SeaGL: http://seagl.org/ Valorie ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Give People Access to Great Technology - a possible vision
Hello again, I was going to reply to each response individually but I thought it might be simpler to do one reply. First off, thanks for being so so gracious in reviewing the thoughts I shared. As I mentioned these were personal thoughts prompted by my experience at Akademy this year. There's always a risk sharing such thoughts with a community that barely knows me, so I'm grateful for your kindness. At the risk of appearing to be defensive about the ideas expressed, permit me to provide some clarifications: * The ideas were not intended to communicate a stand our ground or a don't adventure beyond the desktop vision. Rather they was intended to say that the desktop doesn't have to be viewed as a now relatively stagnant participant in the ecosystem. I'm not sure anyone in the community thinks that is the case, but to the extent that there is concurrence, it seemed an element of value worth capturing and communicating about ourselves and what we provide. * Regarding integration, the ideas were really intended to regard applications, the desktop, devices and the cloud for their unique capabilities and how they can enhance each other. That can include the make-a-tablet/phone/cloud-version-of-[x] approach, but the hope is that it could include other approaches as well. As noted, there are already many efforts in the community that reflect such approaches, so it seemed an element of value worth communicating as well. * I'm no personal fan of exclusivity-driven integration. I'm rather a fan of open approaches to technological integration that enables people not hinder them. I've never sensed that as an attribute of KDE and I certainly won't advocate for it now. :-) There are details of the thoughts originally shared that are questionable and have been fairly questioned. For all the words and pictures in the original post that were intended to provide clarity but simply raised more questions, the bullets above hopefully contain the meat of the specific idea originally offered. Is it perhaps too limited? Maybe there should be more of a focus on KDE community. Valorie's quote from the manifesto seems quite good to me. (It was really great to meet you too Valorie!) Is it so broad that it loses focus or spreads us thin? I'm not entirely sure what a vision appropriate to our market position should look like, but I totally understand your concerns about lofty but unachievable goals Jaroslaw. Perhaps it might make sense if there are separate visions for our community and for each of the community's products (Frameworks, Plasma, the different apps). Then the folks doing the work can share their vision and better gauge the loftiness of any vision they signing up for. (What I originally offered seems more Frameworks and Plasma related.) How might that approach impact cohesiveness? I'm completely and utterly satisfied if whatever is identified as a vision, whether for the community as a whole or for specific products of the community, differs a great deal or entirely from the thoughts I originally shared. Maybe everything is fine and I just need to educate myself more about the road maps already laid out. I confess as a long-term user, an application developer and more recently as a designer contributor, I do occasionally find it challenging to see what the road ahead is. That may be a personal failing. I suspect though that it's not just me. The worst I could be is wrong. :) Much respect, Andrew ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
[kde-community] Give People Access to Great Technology - a possible vision
that acknowledges our strengths as well as the reality of the trends in our technological ecosystem. I just wanted to share this collection of thoughts that have been festering in mah noggin since Akademy in the hopes it might be helpful to a community I’ve come to treasure. Hope this helpful and I'm genuinely happy to be a part of such an amazing community, Andrew Lake KDE VDG member ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
