Re: Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia
Hi all, El 30/08/17 a las 01:34, Thomas Pfeiffer escribió: > Hi everyone, > here is my proposal for a Big Hairy Audacious Goal: > Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia And engineering? I think that some of the applications that you say (Rkward, for example) are valid for engineering too. There are other Qt apps that are used in engineering like Freecad or Librecad, but there aren't KDE apps. I think that engineering is near science and some of the tools are valid for both. Cheers. Salud y Revolución. Lobo. -- Libertad es poder elegir en cualquier momento. Ahora yo elijo GNU/Linux, para no atar mis manos con las cadenas del soft propietario. Porque la libertad no es tu derecho, es tu responsabilidad. http://www.mucharuina.com - Desde El Ejido, en Almería, usuario registrado Linux #294013 http://www.counter.li.org
Re: Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia
> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 22:09:04 +0200 > From: Alexander Neundorf > To: informing about and discussing non-technical community topics > > Subject: Re: Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and > academia > Message-ID: <15508509.Biu7SZlMBb@linux-l7nd> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > 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 good idea to see "what makes our > > software palatable for R&A" (which is potential reason 2 in your Phab > > task). At least in my field (bioinformatics) most do not even know it > > exists. > > Maybe most of them are using Windows ? > The full proposal also mentions Plasma, which basically means we would not > only try to get them to use KDE applications, but also to switch their OS to > Linux... > So, does this goal include supporting Windows as a first class target > platform ? > Hi, We at the French Space Agency use KDE 4 for operations (satellites and rocket control), and Windows for office work. At CERN and other particle accelerators I know in Berlin, they use KDE 4 and 3 for operation, variable for office work. So they/we don't really need to switch our OS... Cheers, Olivier > Alex
Goal: Improve Plasma Mobile platform for end-user needs
Hello KDE community, For big-hairy-audacious-goal here is my proposal "Improve Plasma Mobile platform for end-user needs" I believe that after doing work on Desktop for almost ~21 years, it makes sense to explore the new form factor. While we are offering the privacy and security centric opensource products for the Desktop, we should also attempt our best in providing same products for Mobile as well. I've written proposal in details at the Phabricator board [1]. Feel free to give feedback or ideas. Thanks! [1] https://phabricator.kde.org/T6878 -- Bhushan Shah http://blog.bshah.in IRC Nick : bshah on Freenode GPG key fingerprint : 0AAC 775B B643 7A8D 9AF7 A3AC FE07 8411 7FBC E11D signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia
> 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: Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia
> 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 visited a few years ago). >> >> That said, I think it would be also a good idea to see "what makes our >> software palatable for R&A" (which is potential reason 2 in your Phab >> task). At least in my field (bioinformatics) most do not even know it >> exists. > > Maybe most of them are using Windows ? > The full proposal also mentions Plasma, which basically means we would not > only try to get them to use KDE applications, but also to switch their OS to > Linux... > So, does this goal include supporting Windows as a first class target > platform > ? Excellent point! I’d clearly say yes, it should also support Windows as a target platform! As I said in the proposal, I had wanted to use Kile and RKWard on my Windows machine at the university (which I could not switch to Linux because of institute policy) but I couldn’t because it was too difficult for me to make them run there. So providing better Windows support for the scientific apps we have would certainly be a valuable goal. I have now added - Make sure that our relevant applications are easy to find and install on Windows, since many researchers and students are still locked into Windows to the possible solutions for reason 2