Re: [kde-community] A new home for Mozilla Thunderbird at KDE?

2016-04-26 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
> On 26 Apr 2016, at 19:54, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > >> There's also the problem that Thunderbird is a massive codebase with >> few people working on it, and built on technology that's predictably >> legacy (Gecko will ultimately die in favor of Servo; also nobody at >> Mozilla

Re: [kde-community] user stats for Neon

2016-04-14 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
Hi! > On 14 Apr 2016, at 15:16, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > A while ago Albert gave a talk at Akademy about collecting some data > on our users. This got me thinking and with Neon I wanted to see how > many installs we had. Our package install software will check for new >

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

2016-07-29 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
Hello Thomas, > On 29 Jul 2016, at 01:04, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > I'm sorry for taking so long with the survey analysis (analysis and > documentation of survey results always end up taking longer than expected), > but now finally I've prepared a presentation of

Re: We now have an Advisory Board

2016-10-03 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
Hello! > On 2 Oct 2016, at 17:26, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >> Feel free to talk to them about the possibility and get them in touch >> with the board (or with any of us if it feels more adequate). > > The LF is a non-profit. A nit-pick - the LF is a trade association, not a

Re: Telemetry Policy

2017-08-16 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
Hi, before this gets completely out of hand: The cited German data protection regulations are often misunderstood, even by people that pose as experts. They are also often (mis-)used as killer arguments to support political or personal opinions. If we start collecting telemetry data, we should

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

2017-08-16 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
Hi Thomas, thanks for this issue forward with a rather constructive approach! > On 16. Aug 2017, at 03:20, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > I have now cleaned up https://notes.kde.org/p/KDE_IM_requirements > by removing >

Re: Survey for prioritization of requirements for an IM/chat solution for KDE

2017-08-18 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
Hi, > On 18. Aug 2017, at 02:11, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > I've finally managed to enter all of our proposed requirements for a KDE-wide > primary IM/chat solution into a tool for creating Kano surveys: > > http://www.kanosurvey.com/?id=3959

Re: Telemetry Policy

2017-08-17 Thread Mirko Boehm - KDE
Hi, > On 17. Aug 2017, at 01:46, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi Valorie, > Even if opt-out for some data is legally and even morally fine, it does not > align with the values we communicate to our users: > Unlike Mozilla's Mission, our Vision mentions privacy explicitly,

Re: FOSS-North

2018-03-01 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
Hi, > On 1. Mar 2018, at 15:03, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > 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. > >

Re: Licensing policy change proposal

2019-01-28 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
Hello, > On 28. Jan 2019, at 13:23, Krešimir Čohar wrote: > > I don't think there are any problems with using public domain images, and > even if there were I'd rather view them as challenges to overcome than > obstacles to avoid. This is not necessarily a question of what we think. This is

Re: Licensing policy change proposal

2019-01-28 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
Hi, sorry, but this email contains a lot of assertions that cannot stand. > On 28. Jan 2019, at 14:28, Krešimir Čohar wrote: > > >It violates the Open Source definition, especially the rule against > >discrimination against use or user. This has been a long-time yardstick for > >the KDE

Re: Proposal: Allow REUSE compatible License Statements in License Policy

2020-01-14 Thread Mirko Boehm (KDE)
Hi, > On 13. Jan 2020, at 21:18, Johan Ouwerkerk wrote: > >> - current version of the draft: https://community.kde.org/Policies/ >> >> Licensing_Policy/Draft_SPDX_v2 >> > > One thing that is not entirely clear to me is what our position would > be