On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Frank Karlitschek wrote: > 1. News > > We should have a communication channel for KDE related informations > directly to our users. So we can post announcements directly to the > Desktop of our users. .. > It should be easy to build a plasmoid and a rss feed for this. Should > be doable for KDE 4.3. This plasmoid should be on the desktop by > default.
we could even use one of the two existing RSS capable plasmoids for this, or at least a base. so yes, this should be *very* easy to accomplish on the KDE side. > 2. People > > Place a plasmoid on the desktop where users can find other kde users > in the same city or region. You can contact users, ask questions, > become friends and do screensharing. This is a nice tool for community > building. We don´t want to show the billion of teens from facebook on > our desktop. This is about building and pushing the KDE and free > desktop community. > > The serverside is already in place. We have over 110.000 registered > free desktop users on openDesktop.org. The API is also working. > > All we need is a plasmoid to use this api. > Cornelius did a proofe of concept already you can find the code here: > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/attica/ > 3. Activities > > People love to see what is going on in their KDE friends network. i wonder if this should be integrated into the Contacts plasmoid and shipped with 4.3? > 4. events > > It would be great if KDE people could see if there are interesting > upcoming kde or free software events in their region. > > It would be nice to have a central events database where everybody who > wants to organize a kde or free software event can publish the event > and other poeople in the same region get notifications. > > This would require a serverside implementation and a plasmoid to show > the events. Or do we want to have korganizer integration here? both, imho. > I plan to implement the serverside together with an api in the future > but i cant promisse a date where it will be ready. So help is welcome > here. :-) what sort of technology will the server side be using? > 5. Knowledgebase: > > If a user is starting KDE for the first time he has questions. At the > moment all the support for KDE users is handled by forums and > mailinglist. So users have to start up a browser go to google and > search for answers for his questions or problems. This is great for > experienced users but not very good for beginners. Forums are not the > best systems to store a knowledge base or FAQs. > We are developing a Desktop, right? I think we can do better. > Why not integrate a knowede base system directly into the desktop. indeed! > Great would be a plasmoid where users can directly query an online > knowledge base system. > For example a searchline, most popular questions from today and > alltime. And a direct link to the person who asked the question and > provided the answer. > You can ask how you configure some specific option in KDE for example. > You will get an answer or get the option to post this as an open > question into the system. > > I´m build a proof of concept knowledgebase functionallity at the > moment for the openDesktop.org websites together with a possible API. > But this is work in progress. I think we have to play around with this > functionallity to solve some technical and social problems first. But > wouldn´t this be great? :-) yes... we can help with the plasmoid quite easily if you'd like something to test this stuff with. > So all we need are plasmoid developers to integrate this features into > the desktop. ;-) i think we have one or two hanging around ;) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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