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

2016-05-23 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, On Sunday 22 May 2016 19:29:22 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > 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

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

2016-06-13 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Sunday 12 June 2016 14:49:58 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > 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-

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

2016-06-28 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi Thomas, On Thursday 16 June 2016 12:02:48 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > 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

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

2016-07-29 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, thanks a lot for your efforts ! :-) On Friday 29 July 2016 11:53:28 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On 29.07.2016 08:57, Mirko Boehm - KDE wrote: > > Hello Thomas, > > > >> On 29 Jul 2016, at 01:04, Thomas Pfeiffer > >> wrote: > >> > >> I'm sorry for taking so long with the survey analysis (analy

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

2016-08-21 Thread Alexander Neundorf
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. > > Indeed, I was equally surprised b

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

2016-08-31 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, 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. > > Indeed, I was equally surpri

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

2016-09-12 Thread Alexander Neundorf
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 and I just added one on Tuesday at 4pm. how did it

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

2016-09-27 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday 21 September 2016 21:53:46 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > 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: > >

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

2016-09-28 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 27 September 2016 16:06:38 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 September 2016 21:53:46 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > >> On 12.09.2016 18:18, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > >> > Hi, > >

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

2016-10-31 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, On Friday 30 September 2016 12:56:13 Sebastian Kügler wrote: ... > On the other hand, a mission that actually concentrates on the things that > we need to solve at a higher level (community governance, culture, > infrastructure, support, network effects, licensing policies, etc.), a > focused

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

2016-12-05 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2016 M10 31, Mon 22:30:45 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: > Hi, > > On Friday 30 September 2016 12:56:13 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > ... > > > On the other hand, a mission that actually concentrates on the things that > > we need to solve at a higher level (co

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

2017-01-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M01 14, Sat 16:53:19 CET Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > 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 o

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

2017-01-17 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M01 17, Tue 15:11:14 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Monday, January 16, 2017 01:13:03 AM Nicolás Alvarez wrote: > > Where do we stop? We have to draw the line somewhere, but I don't know > > where. Perhaps making it case-by-case could be problematic, someone > > could claim it's unfair to

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-06-16 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M05 29, Mon 21:17:29 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks, > > Last year we have talked a lot about KDE's vision, fleshed it out and > wrote it down: https://community.kde.org/KDE/Vision I am proud that we > have done that. However the work does not end there. We have the > answer to th

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-04 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M07 2, Sun 03:43:57 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: ... > In my opinion our answer to "where we want to go" was supposed to be > something else than "nowhere in particular". Then I think we're falling > very short on that. We face a problem, and instead of putting our efforts > to find where to go

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-05 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M07 5, Wed 15:05:26 CEST Clemens Toennies wrote: > On Jul 5, 2017 13:14, "Sebastian Kügler" wrote: > > Should we make privacy our main focus for the next 5 years? > > How about Freedom? The "KDE - Digital Freedom" is one of my favourite T-shirts... Still, there exists already a software

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-05 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M07 5, Wed 12:17:10 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello, > > On Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:28:24 CEST Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On 2017 M07 2, Sun 03:43:57 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > > ... > > > > > In my opinion our answer to "where we want to go

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-05 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M07 5, Wed 13:14:19 CEST Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On woensdag 5 juli 2017 12:17:10 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > > IOW, knowing the organization as a whole decided on some sort of direction > > at least for a while would prompt me into looking beyond my usual comfort > > zone. By doing that w

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-06 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M07 6, Thu 07:29:39 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 July 2017 23:12:38 CEST Alexander Neundorf wrote: ... > > Except that I don't think "Open Data" should really be THE focus of KDE > > (but I guess you just used that as a random example ?), I fully

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-07 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, On 2017 M07 7, Fri 07:21:32 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello, ... > > How about collecting ideas for that ? > > We have already 5. > > 5? I missed a couple I guess. I spotted only "privacy" and "freedom" so far. For completeness: - privacy - (practical) freedom - reliability - KDE apps for A

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

2017-08-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M08 9, Wed 00:19:32 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: ... > - Easy way to share files > A solution that puts files automatically on share.kde.org and embeds them > from there works only if we have people willing and able to implement that > feature into a desktop- as well as mobile client One th

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

2017-08-12 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M08 2, Wed 12:32:32 CEST Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:20:11 +0200 > > Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > Thanks everyone who worked on putting this together at Akademy. I > > believe this is a way that can work well for us as a community. > > > > So one of the things we still

Re: Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Privacy Software

2017-08-21 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M08 18, Fri 18:14:22 CEST Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Hi all, > > I spent some time thinking and working on a proposal for the big hairy > audacious goal (1), the goal that the KDE community sets for itself to > strive for in the next five years. (Context: re-read the thread started > by Kev

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

2017-08-30 Thread Alexander Neundorf
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 agrobiology I visited a few years ago). > > That said, I think it would be also a go

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

2017-08-30 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M08 29, Tue 18:12:55 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer > > 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 y

Re: Goal: Improve Plasma Mobile platform for end-user needs

2017-09-05 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M09 5, Tue 01:26:44 CEST Aleix Pol wrote: ... > That said, I think it's also worth including here other major mobile > platforms. I'm convinced that the appeal to make an application mobile > is magnitudes greater if the application will work on other platforms > besides our own. +1 I thin

Re: RFC: Small change to KDE Manifesto Commitments

2017-09-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M09 15, Fri 20:02:35 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > 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

Re: KDE Community Goals: 2017 voting has started

2017-11-06 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M11 6, Mon 17:55:10 CET victorhck wrote: > El 06/11/17 a las 17:31, Aleix Pol escribió: > > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 4:03 PM, victorhck wrote: > >> El 06/11/17 a las 15:53, Andy B escribió: > >>> Thank you Lydia. > >>> > >>> I voted. > >>> > >>> Andy > >>> > >>> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 1:1

Re: Evolving KDE – The goals are set!

2017-11-30 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2017 M11 30, Thu 12:57:15 CET Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey Dominik, > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 6:06 PM, Dominik Haumann wrote: > > Hi Lydia, > > > > Maybe next Akademy should focus on these topics? Maybe prefer > > talks specific to these three goals? Maybe even have a separate > > track for

Re: FOSDEM - what to show?

2018-01-26 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2018 M01 26, Fri 13:11:56 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote: > For FOSDEM, we've got a table -- but what shall we show off there? I'll maybe somehow try to concentrate on the big goals which have been chosen, privacy and usability ? Alex

Re: Neon Pinebook Remix as part of KDE

2018-04-17 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2018 M04 11, Wed 14:18:05 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Dearest KDE > > KDE neon is a project to bring KDE's software to the people by various > convenient and rapid methods. Recently we've been working on packages > for the Pinebook [1]. Pinebook is a < $100 laptop using an ARM > processor

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

2018-08-13 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2018 M08 13, Mon 06:08:38 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Just to follow up: many people have talked about this topic with me at > Akademy. What I'm not seeing is a public discussion here on the > community list. Note: I deliberately did not send this to the e.V. > list because this is not stric

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

2018-08-26 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, ... > We were close to being global I don't really understand what you mean with "global". Can you please explain ? Thanks Alex

Re: We published Promo's long term goals

2019-02-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, On 2019 M02 15, Fri 21:08:40 CET Paul Brown wrote: > Hi, > > We at the Promo group recently published our Long Term Goals at > > https://community.kde.org/Promo%27s_Long_Term_Goals > > This text helps explain what Promo does and doesn't, and where our > priorities lay. More importantly, it

Re: FOSS-North report

2019-04-29 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On 2019 M04 25, Thu 17:19:14 CEST Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:49 AM Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > [[ Since my blog is down, this is the all the report we'll see about FOSS- ... > > Personally I'd like the Open Source booths to fit in with the rest of the >

Re: Climate Impact and KDE

2019-09-24 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Freitag, 20. September 2019 11:02:44 CEST Jens wrote: > So recent discussions about Climate Strike raised some very good points > about what KDE as a community can do to decrease its footprint. I want > to thank Friedrich for raising them. > > Personally I think this is a rather fun focus for d

Re: Please don't make planet.kde.org into a politics feed

2019-12-05 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Donnerstag, 5. Dezember 2019 13:04:35 CET Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Planet KDE exists to allow KDE people to share information about themselves > as well as their KDE contributions. A hard Brexit will affect KDE > significantly which is why I include it here. The idea that talking about > polit

Re: Planet KDE posts not about KDE (was: Re: Please don't make planet.kde.org into a politics feed)

2019-12-14 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2019 22:23:10 CET Boudewijn Rempt wrote: ... > The purpose of the planet is not to give news, is not to soothe troubled > breasts, is not to provide PR, it's a place where blogs by KDE developers > are brought together, and yes, that means that you will see other parts of

Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage

2020-01-24 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2020 15:42:15 CET Niccolò Venerandi wrote: > Hi! > I'm working on adding a kde.org/hardware webpage. You can see screenshot > here: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26711. What do you think? ~Niccolò > Venerandi Regarding Tuxedo: I bought one 5 years ago or so, and it is a go

Re: Tuxedo and reliability (Re: New kde.org/hardware webpage)

2020-01-27 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Samstag, 25. Januar 2020 15:11:36 CET Philippe Cloutier wrote: > Le 2020-01-25 à 02:47, Alexander Neundorf a écrit : > > On Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2020 15:42:15 CET Niccolò Venerandi wrote: > >> Hi! > >> I'm working on adding a kde.org/hardware webpage. You can

Re: RMS and open letter

2021-03-23 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Dienstag, 23. März 2021 20:49:36 CET Carl Schwan wrote: > Hello all, > like you probably heard already RMS was reinstatement to the > Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation. RMS has > always been a negative force to the Free Software movement due > to his toxic behavior. IMO, calli

Re: On the reappointment of Richard Stallman as a director of the FSF

2021-03-26 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Donnerstag, 25. März 2021 08:53:31 CET Patrick Spendrin wrote: > Am 24.03.2021 um 23:26 schrieb Aleix Pol: > > Dear community, > > From the KDE e.V. we followed closely the discussions on the last few > > days regarding this recent decision within the Free Software > > Foundation's leadership. >

Re: How do we feel about non 100% KDE job offers being sent here?

2021-11-25 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Donnerstag, 25. November 2021 14:44:56 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Hey, > > I know a company that would like to hire people with a skill set that > is relatively common inside the KDE community, the job is not strictly > KDE related, one could call it KDE-adjacent. > > How do we feel about

Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-04-20 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Freitag, 19. April 2024 22:51:55 CEST Jakob Petsovits wrote: ... > all KF dependencies from source. Now that all the megarelease is out, we > might want to consider relying on distro packages for KF6 by default, in > the same way that Qt is not built by default either. This would underscore > th

Re: [kde-community] kde-community Digest, Vol 25, Issue 4

2015-04-17 Thread Alexander Neundorf
From: Boudhayan Gupta > Hi all, > > Over the past few weeks, I have been writing a new screenshot > application for KDE. I'm calling it KScreenGenie, and the code is > currently online at https://github.com/BaloneyGeek/KScreenGenie. > > I initially started out by trying to help out in porting KS

Re: [kde-community] Evolving KDE

2015-04-18 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, not sure I understand: On Saturday, April 18, 2015 12:00:03 kde-community-requ...@kde.org wrote: > * During KDE e.V.'s annual general assembly, the report is discussed > and some of the recommended focus areas are agreed on as goals. > * At a strategy sprint, core community members come up wi

[kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-03 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi everyone, as Lydia already wrote earlier today, there have been activities in the KDE community to come up with a vision for the KDE project for the next years, so we can better work together to achieve our goals as a community. Additionally to the team presented by Lydia, an additional team

Re: [kde-community] Should we allow non-KDE projects to participate in GSoC under KDE?

2016-02-03 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday, February 03, 2016 14:58:54 Martin Klapetek wrote: ... > Imho this goes against the Manifesto as the projects gets to > "enjoy the benefits" without the complying with "commitments" > of the Manifesto. It's also less transparent overall (not able to > monitor progress as it's not on KD

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-03 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi Adriaan, On Wednesday, February 03, 2016 23:18:26 Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2016 22:05:20 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > Let's make KDE rule the world of free GUI software ! > > I'll be a little flippant and say that this is a second vision, d

Re: [kde-community] Differences between proposed vision drafts (or "inclusive" vs "focused")

2016-02-04 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Thursday, February 04, 2016 20:38:52 Boudhayan Gupta wrote: ... > Under the "focused" proposal, such a software would have no place in > the KDE Project. In fact, a software, developed within KDE to address > KDE's (not KDE users but the KDE Project itself) needs cannot be a > part of the KDE Pr

Re: [kde-community] Differences between proposed vision drafts (or "inclusive" vs "focused")

2016-02-04 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, On Thursday, February 04, 2016 07:53:06 Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 11:44:35 PM CET Alexander Dymo wrote: > > I reread both drafts and realized that people who have not > > participated in the development of these proposals might miss the > > important difference b

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-05 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi Ingo, On Friday, February 05, 2016 16:43:06 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2016 22:05:20 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > KDE is an end-user focused, openly governed community of free software > > enthusiasts > > This is a description of what you (and me) th

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-05 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, ... > Thus now my question: How will this vision provide us guidance for the next > disruption? How will we be able to use this vision to be a leader in the > next disruption? Please explain why you think that the vision will help in > the next disruption. If you don't think that the vision is

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-07 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Saturday, February 06, 2016 19:39:35 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Samstag, 6. Februar 2016 16:47:31 CET Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > Yes. I think the vision statement needs to be complemented by a mission > > statement. But I think, before we tackle the mission statement, we should > > nail down the v

Re: [kde-community] Differences between proposed vision drafts (or "inclusive" vs "focused")

2016-02-08 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 08, 2016 10:56:01 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Thursday, February 04, 2016 08:49:55 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > Still we don't see linear algebra libraries or build tools as the main > > goal > > KDE is trying to achieve (...says the

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-08 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 08, 2016 09:26:50 Martin Graesslin wrote: ... > From the replies I read I have a feeling that you haven't made up your mind > yet what the "focus" means. It gives me a feeling that each project to join > would be questioned in detail, whether it matches the perceived "focus". No

Re: [kde-community] Differences between proposed vision drafts (or "inclusive" vs "focused")

2016-02-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 08, 2016 22:41:08 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Monday, February 08, 2016 21:42:58 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > I understand that you're saying it doesn't have a place in KDE. > > > > Sebas, you may have missed that I explicitely mentioned

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 11:59:26 Marco Martin wrote: ... > I fear a part of the explanation is very simple and very sad... > the first time around every participant was young and willing to ride the > change, today several generations are living together in KDE here is the mail from Matthias

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 07:55:08 Martin Graesslin wrote: ... > This was more a rhetorical question. Apparently it didn't make it through. > I'm worried about your vision closing a path for the future. Your vision > setting a focus on past technologies, which will result in stagnation, > shrin

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 10:41:07 Sebastian Kügler wrote: ... > As Martin said very well already: By defining our goals not in terms of > technology but in terms of values and principles, we don't lose the > technology aspect, we are still experts in Qt, sure we'll lose it long-term. If we d

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, I'll also start a new sub-thread. Since this vision draft is very broad: what kind of projects do you consider to be covered by this vision draft ? Or, the other way round, are there projects, or types of projects which you see as not part of this vision ? Alex

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 20:37:29 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Alexander Dymo wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 5:41 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > >> The technology is something that does not belong into the vision. > > > > Why? It would be strange for the tech or

Re: [kde-community] Vision, mission and manifesto - what is their definition and purpose?

2016-02-09 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi Thomas, On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 22:56:32 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: ... > That's why I'd suggest that, before discussing the vision any further, we > should agree on a definition. It doesn't have to be one with which everybody > wholeheartedly agrees, because it's mostly used for communicatio

Re: [kde-community] Vision, mission and manifesto - what is their definition and purpose?

2016-02-10 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:55:59 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Dienstag, 9. Februar 2016 23:35:38 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: ... > > This is maybe an important detail. > > The results of "Evolve KDE" (https://evolve.kde.org/surveyresults.pdf) > > recommend to

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-10 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 07:59:20 Clemens Toennies wrote: ... > Provoking thought: > With the recent shift of Gnome to exclusivity (leading to mint x-apps, > ubuntu forks), what if more and more GTK applications would become KDE > projects because of shared values inside an independent, welc

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-10 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:03:47 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:15:21 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > I'll also start a new sub-thread. > > Since this vision draft is very broad: what kind of projects do you > > consider to be covered by

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-11 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:06:57 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:08:19 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:03:47 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:15:21 Alexander Neundorf wrote: >

Re: [kde-community] Vision, mission and manifesto - what is their definition and purpose?

2016-02-11 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 01:22:02 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2016 21:42:31 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: ... > A vision statement alone doesn't do much, either. A mission is needed to > turn vision into strategy. Yes. :-) > > Anyway, I think visio

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-12 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, On Friday, February 12, 2016 08:04:10 Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:06:33 PM CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:06:57 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > > On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:08:19 PM Alexander Neundorf

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-12 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday, February 12, 2016 21:00:37 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: ... > Maybe what you want is an overarching product vision instead of a community > vision, after all? I think I can answer at least for everybody from the alternative-draft team, maybe also for the people who want more "direction" in K

Re: [kde-community] Vision, mission and manifesto - what is their definition and purpose?

2016-02-12 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:17:03 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 09:42:31 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > > Also, what do you think about the relation between vision and mission > > > > ? > > > > > > When I joined t

[kde-community] Summary so far regarding the alternative/focused draft

2016-02-12 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, I'll try to summarize the points (as much as I can remember) which have been made wrt. to the alternative vision draft (https://community.kde.org/KDE/VisionDraftA). 1) There was the argument that some things which exist in KDE do not match the 4 items mentioned, e.g. a git-mirroring tool (

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-12 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday, February 12, 2016 21:37:23 Clemens Toennies wrote: > On Feb 12, 2016 9:14 PM, "Alexander Neundorf" wrote: > > On Friday, February 12, 2016 21:00:37 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > ... > > > > > Maybe what you want is an overarching product vision ins

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-14 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Saturday, February 13, 2016 15:35:01 Martin Graesslin wrote: ... > I can turn that 180 degree around and argue that we are currently too narrow > minded to get new people in and are not doing great. Hey look all the > awesome work with Plasma 5 and Wayland. We are doing desktop, desktop, > deskt

Re: [kde-community] Fwd: KDE Vision – towards “wholesame” solutions

2016-02-14 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, On Saturday, February 13, 2016 13:12:52 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:45 AM, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer > > wrote: > > sent to wrong mailinglist by mistake ... > > > > -- Forwarded message -- > > From: "Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer" > > To: kde-ev-members...@kd

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi Ingo, On Saturday, February 13, 2016 21:35:22 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Monday 08 February 2016 17:07:26 Alexander Dymo wrote: ... > > Defining it in writing as the goal of KDE adds neither value nor > > attractiveness to KDE as a project. > > Well, that's debatable (and I disagree with it), bu

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hallo Ingo, On Monday, February 15, 2016 14:31:09 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > On Saturday, February 13, 2016 21:35:22 Ingo Klöcker wrote: ... > > I think your concern is that the vision does not function as > > differentiation from other free software commun

Re: [kde-community] Fwd: KDE Vision – towards “wholesame” solutions

2016-02-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 15, 2016 19:12:35 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Sunday 14 February 2016 23:57:56 Alexander Neundorf wrote: ... > > I mean, we are not targetting e.g. sensor networks built from 8bit uCs > > communicating to some big online server, with no user intervention > >

Re: [kde-community] Fwd: KDE Vision – towards “wholesame” solutions

2016-02-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 15, 2016 07:54:40 Martin Graesslin wrote: ... > Please ask yourself the following question: what if a project inside KDE > started to do it? What would happen with the project? Would they stay in or > would they leave KDE? > > I understand that you want to draw a line to define

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 15, 2016 14:00:45 Alexander Dymo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Martin Graesslin wrote: > > That's what we have been doing the last few years, so where are they? > > Where > > are the devs taking our application to mobile, etc. etc. > > KF(5) has barely reached the

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 15, 2016 18:36:18 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A bit less than two weeks ago we sent the first draft for the > community vision for KDE. We have gotten a lot of useful feedback and > have now put this into a second draft. It reads as follows: > "KDE creates technol

Re: [kde-community] Community vision and product vision

2016-02-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 15, 2016 18:41:14 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: ... > Now the thing is: As many of you surely already know, I'm a big fan of > product visions. Whenever I start working with a community within KDE, the > first thing I ask is "Do we have a product vision yet?", and if the answer > is "n

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 15, 2016 15:11:47 Martin Graesslin wrote: ... > Maybe you could start thinking about that. What does it mean if THE GUI > maintainer doesn't want that? Maybe he has a better look on it with THE GUI > knowledge? > > Please don't completely dismiss my feedback. Think about it. Y

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-16 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 10:12:06 Mario Fux wrote: > On Montag, 15. Februar 2016 21:25:52 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > Hallo Ingo, > > Morning Alex and Co > > > On Monday, February 15, 2016 14:31:09 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > Hi Ingo, > >

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-16 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 15, 2016 22:27:14 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Montag, 15. Februar 2016 21:49:58 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Monday, February 15, 2016 18:36:18 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > A bit less than two weeks

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-16 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 08:01:01 Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Monday, February 15, 2016 10:22:20 PM CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Monday, February 15, 2016 15:11:47 Martin Graesslin wrote: > > ... > > > > > Maybe you could start thinking about that

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-17 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 22:59:35 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 07:37:07 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > "KDE creates technology for a world in which everyone has freedom, > > privacy and control over their digital life." > > > > isn't a conflation of vision and mis

Re: [kde-community] Community vision and product vision

2016-02-19 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 15, 2016 22:22:53 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Montag, 15. Februar 2016 22:02:18 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Monday, February 15, 2016 18:41:14 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > > My suggestion, therefore, is: Why don't those who are looking for a >

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-22 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 15, 2016 18:36:18 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A bit less than two weeks ago we sent the first draft for the > community vision for KDE. We have gotten a lot of useful feedback and > have now put this into a second draft. It reads as follows: > "KDE creates technol

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-24 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 16:50:16 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: ... > After reading all of the above, which put into words my inchaote > thoughts, I would like to offer the following version: > > KDE: control your digital life just a nitpick: worded like this, isn't this an order ? "control your

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-24 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 22:59:35 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Wednesday, February 17, 2016 07:37:07 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > "KDE creates technology for a world in which everyone has freedom, > > privacy and control over their digital life." > > > > isn't a conflation of vision and mis

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-27 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday, February 26, 2016 20:01:59 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 10:22:22 PM AMT Stephen Kelly wrote: > > Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > > > Oooo, Steve! Thank you for capping off an excellent discussion. > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-27 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Saturday, February 27, 2016 19:42:44 Stephen Kelly wrote: > Alexander Neundorf wrote: > >> "A world in which everyone has control over their digital life" (in -> > >> over) seems a great vision. > > > > personally I'd like to have included tha

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-28 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Sunday, February 28, 2016 09:54:18 Stephen Kelly wrote: > Alexander Neundorf wrote: > >> I don't know if you read my mail, but I'd encourage you to do so. > > > > TBH, it's so long I got lost. > > Then I don't know why you are writing in this

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-29 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Sunday, February 28, 2016 23:59:12 Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Saturday 27 February 2016 21:29:10 Alexander Neundorf wrote: ... > > The user still depends on the company to continue the product, to not > > change the terms and conditions, etc. > > The user still is forced to u

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-29 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, February 29, 2016 15:58:48 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Montag, 22. Februar 2016 23:05:49 CET Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Monday, February 15, 2016 18:36:18 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > A bit less than two weeks

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-03-07 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Thursday, March 03, 2016 04:46:20 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > replying on phone. blame faulty text completion/correction for any rudeness! > On Feb 29, 2016 5:40 PM, "Alexander Neundorf" wrote: ... > > Can we express the "not be at the mercy of some company" cle

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-03-07 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Saturday, March 05, 2016 11:18:47 Stephen Kelly wrote: > Jos Poortvliet wrote: ... > > Just think about neon - make a list of 5 reasons why it shouldn't be a KDE > > project, easy. But then look at the vision: does it help people (a certain > > group, in this case, Ubuntu users) achieve and more

[kde-community] Vision and mission for KDE - how to proceed ?

2016-03-13 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, so, after the discussions, how do we proceed ? Settle on "A world in which everyone has control over their digital life" as preliminary vision statement, put it in the community wiki somewhere, and start with working on a mission statement ? Other ideas ? Alex ___

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - final version

2016-03-14 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday, March 14, 2016 14:58:57 Lydia Pintscher wrote: ... > Next steps: > * publish the vision. I'm still working out what needs doing. can we please try to publish vision and mission together ? If things go well, maybe can get that done until end of April. Alex _

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