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

2016-05-24 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Dienstag, 24. Mai 2016 01:01:13 CEST Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > Hi, > > On 23 May 2016 at 19:28, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > 3. Added another question for the contributors "Which category or > > categories of projects have you contributed to most recently?", >

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

2016-06-12 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
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-en In order to get the survey out the door soon, I'd prefer to ju

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

2016-06-13 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 13.06.2016 11:36, Adriaan de Groot wrote: On Sunday, June 12, 2016 02:49:58 PM Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: In order to get the survey out the door soon, I'd prefer to just get a final review now, unless there are still issues which you find so crucial that they absolutely have to be fu

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

2016-06-14 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 13.06.2016 22:42, Alexander Neundorf wrote: A few comments: I think the questions should be pointing a bit more toward the future path, i.e. instead "How useful is it or would it be for KDE's ..." maybe "How useful is it for KDE's future to..." ? The way the questions and answers were writte

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

2016-06-16 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
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 of people started drafting a Mission statement and discussing it on the

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

2016-06-18 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 16.06.2016 13:32, sabayon11 wrote: Very interesting survey. I found some issues very controversial. > ...reach as many users as possible, regardless of which operating systems, applications or services they currently use I say no, focus on quality. Be realistic. Don't take to much on your

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

2016-06-19 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 19.06.2016 20:19, Jeff Dooley wrote: Just to echo Thomas, ensuring high quality is of course a noble > endeavor, and one that the community will no doubt pursue alongside > its ongoing effort, but it is not an over-arching mission in and of > itself. Ensure quality, while pursuing . Yup, I co

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

2016-06-28 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 28.06.2016 22:53, Alexander Neundorf wrote: 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

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

2016-06-29 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 28.06.2016 23:50, Sven Brauch wrote: On 28/06/16 23:16, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: It looks like especially WikiToLearn, but also Applications are a bit underrepresented compared to how many people are contributing to them overall. I'm now also sending this to the wikitolearn mailing list

Re: [kde-community] Randa Meetings fundraising - please spread

2016-07-06 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hi Sandro, going to the fundraiser website, I noticed that it is out of date: It still talks about Randa 2016 being in the future. Shouldn't it be updated, and instead of talking about what we _will_ do there, talk about what _has been done_ there, and than changing the message to "If you wa

Re: [kde-community] DigitalOcean is now a sponsor!

2016-07-06 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 05.07.2016 21:36, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: Hi Guys, I'm excited to announce that DigitalOcean is sponsoring the KDE Community. Under their open source software sponsoring programme [1], they've very kindly set us up to use computing resources free of charge. Awesome news! Is this sponsorship

Re: [kde-community] possible foss alternative to telegram/slack

2016-07-20 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 20.07.2016 17:57, Christian wrote: I maintain a personal mattermost setup because we are currently evaluating it at work. Maybe I have to say first that due to my background (I am a former freenode staff member) I am heavily biased towards IRC. But: if you plan to have an alternative to IRC,

Re: [kde-community] KDE Sysadmin and GPG Encryption

2016-07-27 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 27.07.2016 00:17, Jeff Mitchell wrote: I would avoid reading much, if anything at all, into what Boudhayan wrote, both from the perspective of the sysadmin team and even Boudhayan himself. --Jeff I don't see any "reading into" in any of the replies so far. People have just reacted to thi

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

2016-07-29 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
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 (analysis and documentation of survey results always end up taking longer than expected), but now finally I've

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

2016-07-29 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
For those who follow these lists only through archives or digests and therefore did not get the attachment, here's the link to the PDF: https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/JAefwOmCRSB6qp9 and the original ODP: https://share.kde.org/index.php/s/O3KZRDECua8h9wF Cheers, Thomas

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

2016-07-30 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 29.07.2016 23:27, Alexander Neundorf wrote: Yes, probably. How to interpret other results ? E.g. "Importance of goals". Do we consider the difference between 4.5 ("read as many users as possible" and "convince users to switch away from proprietary") and 5.5 ("do our part to promote Free...")

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

2016-08-01 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
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 by that. It is true, though (I've just re-checked the data to be 100% sure). I

Cleaning up mailing lists?

2016-08-10 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hi everyone, recently I went through lists.kde.org and saw that there are lots of lists there for some short-term projects in the past, or for projects which have long since been abandoned. Given that it probably doesn't give a good impression if someone subscribes to one of those lists only to

Official "Going to Akademy" banner by Ivan Čukić

2016-08-18 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Dear community, as most of you know, each year, there is a banner for people who go to Akademy to put into their blog posts (or on their social media profiles or wherever) so that the world sees which cool people they can meet there if they're going, and/or donate to KDE so those people can mee

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

2016-08-21 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 21.08.2016 22:17, Alexander Neundorf wrote: 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

Creating a map of KDE contributors?

2016-09-20 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hi everyone, I recently realized that unless you ask fellow KDE contributors personally where they live, you don't really know where over the world (or even in your home country) KDE is spread. I think this is a pity, given that knowing that would allow us to, among other things - show the w

Re: Creating a map of KDE contributors?

2016-09-20 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 20.09.2016 13:49, Jonathan Riddell wrote: Gnome already do this https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide Nice! Though a zoomable map would be nicer, because on that map it's a bit difficult to distinguish cities in more crowded countries.

Re: KDE Licensing Policy Updates

2016-09-20 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 20.09.2016 19:52, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: 2016-09-20 14:04 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Riddell : Added: ''Applications which are intended to be run on a server'' can be licenced under the GNU AGPL 3.0 or later Rationale: KDE Store code is under AGPL Question: should this be an option or a requirement f

Re: KDE Licensing Policy Updates

2016-09-20 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Certainly not. AGPL is like GPL in that sense, with the extra rule that you must publish the source code even if you're only giving access over the network and not distributing binaries. I don't think an AGPL library makes much sense though. ​ALGPL makes sense then :) ​ On the

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

2016-09-21 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
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: 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 on

Re: Creating a map of KDE contributors?

2016-09-23 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 20.09.2016 14:06, Luigi Toscano wrote: On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 13:42:35 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: Hi everyone, I recently realized that unless you ask fellow KDE contributors personally where they live, you don't really know where over the world (or even in your home country) K

We now have an Advisory Board

2016-09-27 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Dear KDE, in case you haven't read the Dot article [1] yet: KDE now has an Advisory Board, consisting of KDE e.V.'s Patrons as well as organizations using our software on a large scale (currently LiMux) and other NGOs with visions/missions similar to ours. The list of members is on the Advisory

Re: We now have an Advisory Board

2016-09-27 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 27.09.2016 17:52, victorhck wrote: in the article: https://dot.kde.org/2016/09/26/announcing-kde-advisory-board the LiMux link points to itself. Thanks, fixed. I removed the link because I could not find a proper project website for LiMux, and just linking to the Munich website feels too ge

Re: Changes to the bugzilla workflow: 2 proposals

2016-12-12 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Montag, 12. Dezember 2016 07:39:24 CET Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Am 2016-12-11 22:35, schrieb Luigi Toscano: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to propose two changes to the Bugzilla workflow for our > > instance > > on bugs.kde.org. The two proposals are totally independent from each > > other. > > >

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

2017-01-14 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
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 on phab to manage their todos. Costs us > nothing, helps our fri

Re: Mycroft Plasmoid & Request to Join The Community

2017-01-14 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Samstag, 14. Januar 2017 05:22:58 CET Aditya Mehra wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently released the Mycroft Plasmoid for Plasma 5 Desktop. The plasmoid > is a frontend to Mycroft Ai which could be described as a digital desktop > assistant. The plasmoid with the core provides users a number of s

Re: KDE at FOSDEM 2017 wrapup

2017-02-06 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Montag, 6. Februar 2017 18:04:16 CET Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > Sadly no women at the party again which was commented on social media, > > la presidencia stood us up for VLC. > > Important diplomatic mission ;-) I'll be working on this

Re: Kirchentag in Berlin

2017-05-01 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Montag, 1. Mai 2017 17:48:18 CEST Irina Rempt wrote: > I've been to a Kirchentag already -- in München -- and I'd certainly like to > go again! Only I'm almost 60 and have a bad back, I don't think I can sleep > on the floor in a school gym for 5 nights and not end up broken. Now trying > to fin

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-06-13 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 13 Jun 2017, at 15:29, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On dinsdag 13 juni 2017 14:16:25 CEST Kenny Coyle wrote: >> Thanks for putting this together, I can only see it being positive going >> forward. >> >> The text itself is very clear and concise. >> >> On the last section about promoting de

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-06-21 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017 22:41:04 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dilluns, 29 de maig de 2017, a les 21:17:29 CEST, Lydia Pintscher va > > escriure: > > 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/V

Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

2017-08-08 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Dienstag, 8. August 2017 22:46:18 CEST Elvis Angelaccio wrote: > On martedì 8 agosto 2017 21:46:58 CEST, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > > On 8 August 2017 at 20:01, Luigi Toscano wrote: > >> Can rocket.chat be bridged too? If not, promoting it would > >> create another island. > > > > With Brookl

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

2017-08-08 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hi everyone, now that hopefully most of the emotional arguments in fiery support of one protocol or another have been exchanged, I'd suggest we move things towards a practical approach and ask ourselves: What are the requirements that KDE has for an instant messaging / chat system for it to be

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 02:14:44 CEST Jonathan Frederickson wrote: > On 08/08/2017 06:19 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > - Support for a decent set of Emoji (not just the ones you can create > > using > > ASCII chars). > > Using Unicode to display them is probably

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

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 01:59:00 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > PS: on the importance of emojis and (animated) stickers: I can see why > people want them for friends and family, I love the sticker packs I have on > Telegram. But why it is mandatory in a somewhat more professional > environment

Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Dienstag, 8. August 2017 23:52:40 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > > Looking at #kde-devel just now it says: > > <-- swati_27 (uid130066@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-abaollxcgicrxgwg) > > has quit (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity) > > <-- nowrep (~david@kde/developer/drosca) has quit (Quit:

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

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 09:36:42 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 01:59:00 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > > PS: on the importance of emojis and (animated) stickers: I can see why > > people want them for friends and family, I love the sticker pack

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

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 09 Aug 2017, at 09:57, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > Can we please keep this thread limited to collecting-requirements, and > therefore arguing over which requirements are required or what their weight > is? That, rather than re-hashing the discussion elsewhere on which platform > with whi

Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 09 Aug 2017, at 16:19, Eike Hein wrote: > > On August 9, 2017 4:28:49 PM GMT+09:00, Thomas Pfeiffer > wrote: >> On Mittwoch, 9. August 2017 02:14:44 CEST Jonathan Frederickson wrote: >>> On 08/08/2017 06:19 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: >>>> - Support

Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 09 Aug 2017, at 19:57, Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> >> The bigger issue seen in what Jonathan pasted isn't that IRC clients show >> when people join or leave a group. The issue is that it shows when people >> close their IRC client. And the problem is not that it shows them, but that >> this

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

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 09 Aug 2017, at 20:00, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2017, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > >> So unless someone can give me an example of an organization younger than 10 >> years, with predominantly people younger than 25, > > Is there any such organ

Please participate in the requirements Etherpad (Was: Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat)

2017-08-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Just in case my other email linking to the Etherpad was overlooked by some of you because it was buried too deep in the thread: Let's make this discussion productive by collecting the requirements KDE has for a chat / IM system to become our standard in this document: https://notes.kde.org/p/KD

Re: How about an inclusive "and" approach instead of fighting IRC versus something new? (was: Re: Collecting requirements for a KDE-wide instant messaging solution)

2017-08-10 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 10 Aug 2017, at 10:22, Luigi Toscano wrote: > > Il 10 agosto 2017 10:24:08 EEST, Martin Steigerwald ha > scritto: >> Martin Klapetek - 09.08.17, 16:12: But KDE is not a tech startup. As people correctly wrote, KDE has a >> very long history and contributors of all age. I'd

Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

2017-08-10 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 10 Aug 2017, at 15:27, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> You can't expect me to read a 200 messages backlog in 20 channels just in >> case >> something important was said while i was away. >> >> Also one of the reasons of why i hate to us

Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

2017-08-10 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 18:40:34 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2017, 17:25:14 CEST schrieb Jonathan Riddell: > > LibreOffice are having a similar discussion > > > > https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/msg02257.html > > > > They want to continue u

Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

2017-08-10 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 20:38:11 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2017, 20:31:22 CEST schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer: > > On Donnerstag, 10. August 2017 18:40:34 CEST Christian Loosli wrote: > > > Am Donnerstag, 10. August 2017, 17:25:14 CEST schrie

Re: Telemetry Policy

2017-08-14 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Sonntag, 13. August 2017 11:47:28 CEST Volker Krause wrote: > ## Minimalism > > We only track the bare minimum of data necessary to answer specific > questions, we do not collect data preemptively or for exploratory research. > In particular, this means: > - collected data must have a clear p

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

2017-08-14 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Dienstag, 15. August 2017 00:47:15 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Mirko Boehm - KDE wrote: > > I have seen only agreement and support for the porposal. What would be the > > required steps to make an official announcement, and encourage people to > > participate?

Re: [kde-community] Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

2017-08-15 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 15 Aug 2017, at 11:42, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 09:49:11PM +0900, Eike Hein wrote: >> >> I've given some more thought to Matrix as a contender and I'm >> increasingly liking this option among the available contenders. > > We have the possibility of moving to Mat

Re: [kde-community] Re: radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

2017-08-15 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 15 Aug 2017, at 12:09, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > On 15 August 2017 at 10:44, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: >> The VDG has contributed to the Etherpad, so their requirements are covered >> in there. > > How to evaluate if Matrix/Riot covers them? Stuff like "

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

2017-08-15 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hey everyone, just a quick progress update: I have now cleaned up https://notes.kde.org/p/KDE_IM_requirements by removing duplicates, removing all discussion / comments (so only plain requirements are left) and rewording most requirements to that they have a somewhat common wording. The next

Re: Telemetry Policy

2017-08-16 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Mittwoch, 16. August 2017 09:33:02 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hi all, Mozilla has done a lot of work on telemetry, and we might be > able to use some of their findings. On this page: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Data_Collection they break down the > data they might possibly collect in

Re: Telemetry Policy

2017-08-17 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 17. Aug 2017, at 17:38, Mirko Boehm - KDE wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 17. Aug 2017, at 01:46, Thomas Pfeiffer > <mailto:thomas.pfeif...@kde.org>> wrote: >> >> Hi Valorie, >> Even if opt-out for some data is legally and even morally fine, it d

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

2017-08-17 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hi everyone, 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 The Kano model [1] categorizes features not just in "must have" and "nice to have" but into five categori

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

2017-08-18 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
>> >> The Kano model [1] categorizes features not just in "must have" and "nice to >> have" but into five categories along two dimensions. >> This results in a more holistic view on the requirements, at the expense of >> making the survey quite long because participants have to rate each feature

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

2017-08-28 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Freitag, 25. August 2017 12:46:16 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Friday, 18 August 2017 01:11:39 BST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I've finally managed to enter all of our proposed requirements for a > > KDE-wide primary IM/chat solution into a tool for

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

2017-08-29 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
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 yet-untapped potential for the usage of KDE products in the research and academic sector, and we should fix that, for their sake and ours.

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

2017-08-30 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 30. Aug 2017, at 03:12, 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 >>

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

2017-08-30 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 30. Aug 2017, at 07:21, Luca Beltrame wrote: > > Il giorno Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:34:37 +0200 > Thomas Pfeiffer ha > scritto: > >> I think that here is a lot of yet-untapped potential for the usage of >> KDE products in the research and academic sector, and

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

2017-08-31 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 30. Aug 2017, at 22:09, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > 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 visi

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

2017-08-31 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 30. Aug 2017, at 22:10, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > Not to forget Kitware, which is strong in Open Science and research. …which is why it already said in the proposal "Much of the software they use is already Qt-based (see e.g. Kitware)” :)

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

2017-09-04 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Here are the results of the survey: https://sessellift.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/results-of-the-requirements-survey-for-a-kde-wide-chat-solution/ Now it's time for us to find a solution that fits the profile! Cheers, Thomas signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Randa Meeting: Notes on Voice Control in KDE

2017-09-15 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 15. Sep 2017, at 12:54, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > Hey! > > Interesting discussion. Did you guys factor in the work done by Mycroft > on that front? I think there's a great deal of overlap, and already > some really interesting results shown for example in the Mycroft > Plasmoid: Exactly

Re: RFC: Small change to KDE Manifesto Commitments

2017-09-15 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> 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 we're at it, might I suggest also changing the first line to >>> "[Respec

Re: Randa Meeting: Notes on Voice Control in KDE

2017-09-18 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 16. Sep 2017, at 00:08, Aditya Mehra wrote: > > Hi Everyone :), > > Firstly i would like to start of by introducing myself, I am Aditya, i have > been working on the Mycroft - Plasma integration project since some time > which includes the front-end work like having a plasmoid as well a

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

2017-09-25 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 30. Aug 2017, at 01:34, 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 yet-untapped potential for the usage of KDE >

Re: Let's set some goals

2017-10-02 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
I’ve also snuck in another goal today ( https://phabricator.kde.org/T7126 ), sorry for being a bit late. Cheers, Thomas > On 30. Sep 2017, at 18:05, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Andy B wrote: >> Are you ok that I submit my proposals on Monday? I am traveling at th

Re: time to review the goal proposals

2017-10-03 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2017 01:29:50 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Wow, this is a GREAT lineup of possible goals. It will be difficult to > choose just one. On the other hand, we will have this list as a > resource when it's time to choose the next goal. The plan was to choose three, actually,

Re: Is there interest in participating in Google Code-in this year?

2017-10-14 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Jens Reuterberg wrote: > Well so I can't do much in that area I feel - unless its open to design tasks. > If that is the case ("design tasks" is ok), count me in. It _is_ open to design tasks! This is actually the category where we usually have most trouble findi

Re: KDE@fosscomm2017

2017-11-06 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Dienstag, 7. November 2017 01:27:53 CET Aleix Pol wrote: > On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Dimitris Kardarakos wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > > > I am Dimitris, KDE Contributor from Greece. Yesterday I presented vision > > of > > KDE as well as vision of Plasma at Fosscomm2017 . Fosscomm (Free a

Call for Sessions for LibrePlanet 2018

2017-11-08 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Dear community, John Sullivan, the Free Software Foundation's representative in our Advisory Board, pointed us to the Call for Sessions for the 2018 edition of the FSF's annual LibrePlanet conference [1] and invited us to send in sessions. The call ends Thursday, November 9th, 2017 at 10:00 EST

What could be helpful to get contributor training on?

2018-03-08 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Dear KDE community, With the $200k donation from the Pineapple Fund [1], we have some money available which we can invest in KDE’s future. We are currently thinking about what to best invest in, and one of the ideas was to pay for professional training in some skills for contributors. For that, w

Re: What could be helpful to get contributor training on?

2018-03-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hi Paul > On 9. Mar 2018, at 09:22, Paul Brown wrote: > > On jueves, 8 de marzo de 2018 21:40:00 (CET) Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: >> Dear KDE community, >> With the $200k donation from the Pineapple Fund [1], we have some money >> available which we can invest in KDE

Re: What could be helpful to get contributor training on?

2018-03-09 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
> On 9. Mar 2018, at 09:48, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On Thursday, 8 March 2018 22:39:08 CET Lydia Pintscher wrote: >> >> The board. >> > > Ah. I'm sorry -- that wasn't clear at all to me in the original mail. I just > was really surprised because it didn't seem to have had much to do with

Re: Twitter access

2018-07-19 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2018 15:16:39 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I'll stop doing KDE promo again then. KDE shouldn't have unnamed > higher powers who block community contributions. > > Jonathan Hi Jonathan, Nobody has wronged you. There are no unnamed higher powers blocking community contribu

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

2018-08-19 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Samstag, 11. August 2018 14:25:16 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > In addition there is the widespread opinion that amateurs are better > than professionals for KDE, and that if there are professionals > working on software, that the volunteers will leave. In fact, this > idea seems widespread i

Survey to asses the wishes for further contributor training

2019-02-22 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Dear KDE community, As those who have been at last year's Akademy know, we have used some of our funds to offer free, professional contributor training there (we had public speaking, non-violent communication, fundraising and documentation training). According to a survey we did to evaluate the t

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-06-29 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 6/19/19 5:44 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > I've set up a Discourse server for a trail to see if it's something we > should add to KDE's infrastructure. > > Discourse is a modern Free Software web forum and mailing list app. > > Give it a trial now at http://discuss.kde.org.uk/ > > If you want

Re: Contributor training feedback data

2019-06-29 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 6/20/19 6:22 PM, Roman Gilg wrote: > Hi, > > last Akademy there were some contributor trainings going on. And > afterwards there was a poll on how people liked it. > > It this poll data available somewhere? And what trainings are planned > for Akademy 2019? > > Thanks in advance. > > Roman

Re: Testbed Discourse Server For Trial discuss.kde.org.uk

2019-07-02 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 7/1/19 9:02 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hi all, > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 10:48 AM Luigi Toscano <mailto:luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it>> wrote: > > Nate Graham ha scritto: > > On 6/29/19 4:04 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > >> Hi Jonathan,

Re: Contributor training feedback data

2019-07-02 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 6/30/19 11:33 AM, Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Saturday, 29 June 2019 23:33:13 BST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: >> We (the board) have not decided yet which trainings to offer at this >> year's Akademy (but we have decided that we do want to offer trainings >> in general!). We&

Re: Invent/gitlab, issues and bugzilla

2019-07-03 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 7/3/19 9:05 PM, Luigi Toscano wrote: > Boudewijn Rempt ha scritto: >> On woensdag 3 juli 2019 20:23:41 CEST Nate Graham wrote: >>> On 7/3/19 11:53 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: If the new is much better than the old, let's just remove the old. As said, having two things that do the

Communication training at Akademy on Friday

2019-08-13 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Dear KDE community, Since the Nonviolent Communication training last Akademy was received very positively, and both those who attended it and those who didn't have the chance to attend expressed that more communication training would be useful, we decided to invite Tilman Krakau, our trainer from l

Re: KDE should rather act then just "strike" (Re: Should KDE join the (Digital) Global Climate Strike this friday?)

2019-09-19 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hi Friedrich, On 19.09.19 13:52, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 18. September 2019, 18:01:18 CEST schrieb cahfof...@tuta.io: >> Hello to all members of the KDE community, >> >> this friday (september the 20th) will be a big day in climate protests and >> hopefully also in human his

Re: Should KDE join the (Digital) Global Climate Strike this friday? - Proposal

2019-09-19 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hey everyone, Here is a concrete proposal which I've just brought up on the promo channel and which seems to gain support there: - Add a banner on our website _today_ informing about the Global Climate Strike which starts tomorrow and telling that we support it (not covering the whole website, ju

Re: FSF leadership

2019-09-19 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 19.09.19 11:48, Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: > Hello again, > > a clarification from my side... > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:16 AM Agustín Benito wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am against this. I find disrespectful to tell a fellow organization what >> they should do. I would feel the same

Re: KDE should rather act then just "strike" (Re: Should KDE join the (Digital) Global Climate Strike this friday?)

2019-09-19 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 19.09.19 20:58, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 19. September 2019, 19:35:53 CEST schrieb Nate Graham: >> On 9/19/19 11:05 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: >>> More, I see all those "strikes" are substitutes for people actually >>> handling or at least for postponing their ow

Re: KDE should rather act then just "strike" (Re: Should KDE join the (Digital) Global Climate Strike this friday?)

2019-09-22 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hi Christoph, On 20.09.19 22:35, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > I must confess I missed that we decided to participate, too, but digging > in the mails of this thread it seems the board of e.V. did so. (if I > don't misread > Aleix mail) >From my perspective, the course of events was: - On Wednesda

Re: 4th global climate strike - should KDE take action?

2019-11-04 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
I have sent a former vote proposal to the e.V. list now. We'll see what happens. On 04.11.19 15:56, cahfof...@tuta.io wrote: > Hello Christoph, > thanks for your fast answer. > > You're rigth, the general interest in this topic is very low at this moment, > there were neither positive nor negati

EU Survey on "Sustainable OSS communities in the public sector"

2020-02-25 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hey everyone, The European Commission is currently looking for input on "Sustainable OSS communities in the public sector" via an open survey. I believe it's a great opportunity to show politicians and bureaucrats how to collaborate with us in a sustainable way. Therefore, I'd encourage all KDE p

Re: [kde-community] Spam attack on wikis - comments needed!

2013-07-24 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 24.07.2013 14:04, Luigi Toscano wrote: - why don't require identity registration? I understand that the idea is to lower the threshold for new contributors, but identity is used also for other services (and it will be used more and more), and on the other side the registration shows a bit of

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Tuesday 12 November 2013 23:11:54 Eike Hein wrote: > On Tuesday 12 November 2013 22:53:18 Thomas Zander wrote: > > All these may actually exclude the stuff that is used to create the > > deliverables. If you use gimp to draw, the gimp file is imporant, but the > > "asset" and "deliverable" is ty

Re: [kde-community] Discussion: KDE Manifesto, "established practices"

2013-11-18 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On 18.11.2013 17:31, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: If people really feel the name, the “established practices” could link to: http://techbase.kde.org/Policies This would be much like how the CoC is linked to rather than included in the Manifesto. The language on the Policies page would

[kde-community] HIG compliance testing via Google Code-in

2013-12-04 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
Hey everyone, as you know from Lydia's recent mail on this list, we need some more Google Code-in tasks. So far we had two tasks for testing KDE applications for compliance with the KDE Human Interface Guidelines (http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG). Both tasks have been completed v

Re: [kde-community] HIG compliance testing via Google Code-in

2013-12-05 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Thursday 05 December 2013 10:16:56 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > Plasma Media Center would love to have more usability feedback, as usual :) PMC would surely be interesting to test. The only issue I see is: Which HIGs should it be tested against? It's neither really a Desktop nor an Active app

Re: [kde-community] HIG compliance testing via Google Code-in

2013-12-05 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Wednesday 04 December 2013 16:14:26 Jeremy Whiting wrote: > I wouldn't mind getting usability information about knewstuff (used in > many applications), kanagram, and/or Jovie. > > thanks, > Jeremy Sure! Could you handle feedback for all three? ;) __

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