Hi, Some people involved in Plasma Mobile and KDE's promo efforts had a meeting with Purism, a company who is running a crowdfunding campaign to create a privacy-focused "free software" phone yesterday.
I've taken some notes as to keep the community in the loop. These notes may not be complete, but they give a decent picture of what was talked about during the meeting. Here goes: Meeting Purism & KDE Thursday, 7 September 2017, via Jitsi video conferencing Present: Zlatan: CTO Purism Jeff: promotion / communication at purism Matthias: Purism Paul: Marketing Coordination Sebastian: Plasma Mobile coordination / communication Marco: Plasma Mobile UI maintainer Aleix: KDE e.V. board, works on Flatpak Bhushan: Plasma Mobile stack maintainer Nicole: Purism lead for phone Todd: CEO Purism Todd: introducing purism - builds laptop, goal to reduce screen size to get to the point of mobile - be able to deliver on the phone - believe digital rights is a concern, take FSF policy as base, build this into the hardware story, create devices users can control - convenient alternative to android - evaluating best path forward from the software standpoint, esp middleware stack - long term goal: identify pain points for average users to allow wide adoption of a pre-installed linux -> build a product line - KDE wants to make Plasma Mobile readying for end-user needs a goal: https:// phabricator.kde.org/T6878 - draft for a communication strategy for a joint campaign with purism as base: https://phabricator.kde.org/T6919 - Technology Roadmap for Plasma Mobile: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/ Mobile/Roadmap Results of discussion: - plan: figure out a way to tap into KDE's promotion engine, and this reach this audience, drive to consodilate on a given platform rally the audience behind one platform, rather than different islands - question for purism: what are we trying to do with the middleware (KDE Plasma vs. GNOME / GTK) - unified software stack between laptop and phone formfactors is desirable - if the crowdfunding is successful (let's assume yes), deliver the phone within 12 months - once we start investing in developers, we need to pick a platform ("pick a horse to bet on") - next 49 days plus one month, this decision for a platform needs to be taken - what hardware are people interested in - end goal aligns very well: KDE wants a privacy phone, controlled by the users - an estimate is needed about text / matrix client - We need to rally KDE peeps to help developing - to follow up with email of understanding about possible collaboration Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org