-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 12/02/16 11:17, Kopimi Security wrote: > On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 12:56:11 AM UTC+1, Andrew David Wong wrote: >> Unfortunately, the financial necessity of shifting our priorities to >> commercial >> clients will mean that we have less time to work on features that benefit the >> wider, security-minded open source community, which has been our focus for >> the >> past seven years. This deeply saddens us. (We all use Qubes on our personal >> computers too!) However, the reality is that ITL can't afford to sustain the >> open source development of Qubes for much longer. We're running out of time. >> >> In an attempt to keep the open source development of Qubes going, we've >> teamed >> up with Open Collective [07], which makes it easier to donate to the Qubes >> project. Now, in addition to our Bitcoin fund [08], we can also accept >> donations via credit card. ITL will not benefit from of any of the money >> donated >> through Open Collective. Instead, the funds will be paid directly to >> individual >> developers who have been hired to work on the open source edition of Qubes. > > I'm excited about this, and wish to support Qubes. > My first thoughts are "How can Qubes reach a broader community", and "Can the > HOWTO's be made more approachable?". > For example, the section 'assigning-devices' on the /doc/, didn't get into > how to actually use a mouse with a sys-usb qube, before at the very end. > And there, the way it was written gave the impression of giving the answer > almost as an afterthought, as if it should have been obvious to everybody. > As such, it reads as it was written by somebody "too close to the problem". > Somebody being so familiar with the system that outsiders' inability to grasp > the "obvious", escapes him. Or her. > This is not a unique issue for ITL though, the same problem pops up > everywhere when highly technical minded people try to convey something to > people who just wants to be *users*! > > So that's what I'm thinking, maybe it would be good for the "evangelization" > of Qubes to make some very simple, brief, and to-the-point videos and howto's? >
Yes, certainly. Would you be willing to help us with that? :) - -- Andrew David Wong (Axon) Community Manager, Qubes OS https://www.qubes-os.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJYQgAXAAoJENtN07w5UDAw9cYP/1iv81S1ooD5g3nyqyXbJXHE mI//1hR4aK1lw1dn4vqssWUUoUN1yuNKcVsRFxXZsWchWYp5p6rFkAanB5muMxfv /kLUK/OwE/+Y0AqgZ8xlQfqfpemF7WgOkQNb8tCVZtFGu/sVykFb+oH+r5gu2zES PJQ3K2giK01xBCnP7JRlsO9/Ywq1KocEzHBSF1JcU7gwfWkuZLMJyAiVLpMxv9wK jqS2ywFEMxr44/33+1EFKE4YZeDVBjHkcK4jhaENZMRaDA3vXr3KIk9gPSzXf58/ /f0BgUvB2zO2BoCXiAUwethTVEjK9lQh7Wu3b0/e81pe4ioQBcW/jTCok7FyNfDu yItNm24iBf06pcHUAdX5ZiR0vkH+H9prtGKKA/WZDOzV7KST0Fm2a1yqfnxnMzi9 oVsMq4SJ5wKpc4jGwRK3kNcXHwdVeebEzqaKVH1CxeHQnkJzer7Zc6IgwHxI4Tmu ENEnIoiAhukCIvGr1gvw3xM2DxUb03M+M9WhvBc+NYc92x8h7i5fPHA9vTSuUz9f x8+IdIc/ohhKXCN7LC+Wxn5IUqQk+TVcCBeglmGK5cAsWyUEAM2IrBgcxYMyn4ff dkiUOBpRcPloBrtDCbsED8Uk6hi4/Eo7exsw0kRCw0V0ZSeLlV52HiUhEE+qA88w 7YmI9P0h3CmJJF4SVkXc =iLi5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/fa274aa4-0d34-b1ec-841a-78851275e68b%40qubes-os.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
