Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On 19 December 2014 at 11:08, Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org wrote: 2014 is coming to an end. This gives us some time for reflection. What are your KDE highlights of 2014? Adriaan de Groot came to Akademy. -- Paul J. Adams PhD MIEEE MBCS CITP ___ 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 highlight is been back to Akademy as a KDE guy after long time, bring my girlfriend that enoyed a lot of the vibe of KDE people, and assure that i made the right choice 10 years ago when decided that this project would be my project for life ... On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Andrew Lake jamboar...@gmail.com wrote: 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 ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
Hi all, On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org 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. Sadly I couldn't attend many of the awesome events listed, so I have only one to mention, but it was definitely a highlight: Randa! As for KDE software: did I ever tell how much I love Dolphin? Being forced to use Windows for work (*sigh*) and struggle with what they call a file manager I am so grateful for Dolphin that not only works like a charm on Windows (thanks to all people involved making this happen) but makes proprietary file managers look very poor :) And a big thank to all the usability people working in the KDE community: you really do an awesome job at making our projects usability the top of the list. Usability like we have it is really good for the user, giving them great software to use and still letting them doing what they want to do with it. I haven't used Windows for many, many years and was forced to use it again recently. Unlike KDE it really didn't get better over the years, the only things they improved is all the awesome desktop features they borrowed from KWin and Plasma ;-) There are so many things we do better in KDE, starting with dual monitor setups (try to get a persistent dual setup on Windows 7 that is not just clones, forget about it) to Activities and multiple desktops and, and, and... We truly show that Free Software is not only better for your freedom but better for the user and their work flow. I have yet to find a proprietary product that is better than a free one, so far all lost in comparison. So to sum it up: I truly have one highlight of the year, and that is KDE :) Regards, Myriam -- Proud member of the Amarok and KDE Community Protect your freedom and join the Fellowship of FSFE: http://www.fsfe.org Please don't send me proprietary file formats, use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300) ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On Friday 19 December 2014 11:08:55 Lydia Pintscher wrote: 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? For me the highlight in KDE was the ODF Plugfest in London and the advance in Calligra shown off there. It was very good to see so much companies that care about ODF. It gave me a change to meet up again with my (now ex) colleages of KO GmbH. This highlight was offset against the very slow business that we had in KO. Ever since KO started working on KOffice/Calligra in 2009, we had a great team working on many cool projects centered around ODF and Calligra. Right now, you can still see the results from the Calligra work on the Jolla phone, where the document viewer is based on Calligra. This, of course, also benefitted the desktop version of Calligra. Calligra Gemini is the last result from contracting work within KO that flows into Calligra. Dan demonstrated Gemini at the ODF Plugfest and it was the first time that I saw it running on a hybrid laptop. It switches between touch mode and laptop mode quickly and smoothly. As of last oktober, I'm not longer employed at KO. In fact, only Friedrich Kossebau remains. He is working on WebODF projects, which he combines with spare time Calligra contributions. I will remain a KDE representative at the ODF technical committee. This aligns well with my new job as government employee: I'm now working for the dutch government, where I am responsible for the software that creates PDF, HTML and jawohl, ODF from XML. I'll also be working on Linked Data with government. My experiences within KDE on Nepomuk and Calligra have made me profient in this area. For this, I'm very grateful that KDE exists and that I'm part of it. I wish everyone in KDE a great new year and after my years at KO, I'm especially appreciative of the challenges that people face that are working commercially with Free Software. I hope that 2015 will see new chances of making a living with KDE. Even while that will remain challenging, there's a lot of fun to be had and much useful software to be created. All the best, Jos ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On 23 Dec 2014 20:19, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: I moved to Barcelona so I could spend my days in the KDE office here *blue systems office Jonathan ___ 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] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 09:23:22PM +0100, David Edmundson wrote: On 23 Dec 2014 20:19, Jonathan Riddell j...@jriddell.org wrote: I moved to Barcelona so I could spend my days in the KDE office here *blue systems office Sign on the door says KDE and lots of people use it who aren't blue systems Jonathan ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On Tuesday, December 23, 2014 20.31:55 Jonathan Riddell wrote: Sign on the door says KDE Does it say Blue Systems on the door, or just KDE? -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
Hi Lydia and everyone! For me the best KDE moment this year was my first meeting with the KDE devs in january in Barcelona. It blew my mind (and I still think that for Promo material 2015 we should focus on the devs as people a lot more). I prepared for what I imagined was sitting in a corner doodling and a lot of people programming and doing C++ jokes or something. Nothing could be further from the truth - inclusive, kind, never condescending and charming. So many ideas - so much stuff we have to do that will make KDE even more brilliant. My second-but-close was Akademy. Meeting brilliant people, talking to the other people in VDG (which was scary and cool) like Andrew and Thomas ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On December 19, 2014 10:08:55 AM GMT, Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org 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. Hi Lydia, et al I've had joining the Kubuntu dev team on my Bucket list for several years. I love KDE and have used it as my desktop of choice for over 10 years. Plasma 5 is just gorgeous, and even in its Beta it is working well for me. Activities have been so useful for me also. My highlight; Becoming a Kubutnu Ninja Yellow belt. Working with Scarlet and Jonathan from the Kubuntu team has been really interesting, and to put the cherry on the cake, I've been invited to help out on the KDE stand at FOSDEM in 2015 Thanks Rick Timmis -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org wrote: 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? Personal highlight for me was conf.kde.in 2014 and Akademy, as well as Mentoring programs. GSoC, Season of KDE and Google code in. It was nice experience participating in Google Summer of Code 2014 as student and then sharing same knowledge by mentoring Season of KDE and Google code in. I just 3 this community. Lets hope we will rock upcoming year 2015. -- Bhushan Shah http://bhush9.github.io IRC Nick : bshah on Freenode ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On 19 December 2014 at 11:08, Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org wrote: 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. Spending some powers on cooperation with Visual Design Group is refreshing; many new members of Kexi Team includes hyperactive non-coders; realization (backed by real data) that the Plasma shell can be a small fraction of places where a KDE app is used; back to Akademy! Thanks. -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek KDE: : A world-wide network of software engineers, artists, writers, translators : and facilitators committed to Free Software development - http://kde.org Calligra Suite: : A graphic art and office suite - http://calligra.org Kexi: : A visual database apps builder - http://calligra.org/kexi Qt Certified Specialist: : http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
[kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
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
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
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
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] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2014, 11.08:55 schrieb Lydia Pintscher: Hey folks :) Morning Lydia 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. My highlight was of course part of the Randa Meetings 2014. Besides the energy that people brought to Randa this year again and the work they achieved and loved most that we were able to bring families and partner to this great week as well. Cheers Lydia PS: I am writing a year-in-review piece for the dot and this will be part of the input. griits Mario ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org wrote: Hey folks :) 2014 is coming to an end. This gives us some time for reflection. What are your KDE highlights of 2014? Highlights for me: Being asked by Mario to write a Frameworks book, and seeing the team come around that project. The buildup was both helping promote Randa, but also getting help from all the devels with resources to learn about our newly splitted libraries. While there, we were able to work with the people presenting the API docs as well as those shaping the book form and content. Next, Akademy, which was a total blur of activity. Seeing the VDG really burst into public view, and getting to meet and hang out a bit with some of that incredible team. Working with the Debian and Kubuntu teams on planning for the future, and sharing packaging on git. Working with the A11y team, the Documentation workshop with Mikey, and brainstorming the new Mission forum (https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=291t=123795). Installing Plasma 5 and using it full time. So beautiful! Helping out in Season of KDE and Google Code-In, and finally, having fun with our local KDE meetup. What a great year in KDE. Valorie ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org 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. Definitely seeing Plasma 5.0 get out of the door. There was such an aura or doom and gloom approaching the release both from within the team and externally. In the end.. a few issues but, all things considered, everything has been pretty well received and we're very well set up for a very solid 5.x future. Everyone involved put so much time and energy especially in those last two months of just cleaning and fixing in those last two months and it was great to see that actually pay off. David 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
