Re: [kde-community] Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is.....

2014-09-13 Thread Claus Christensen
This is a great idea. I wouldn't mind putting in some work to make something like this get off the ground. One area that could definitely benefit from more people is the UserBase wiki; and we have tasks that doesn't really require any special skills, so it could be a good place to start for any

Re: [kde-community] Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is.....

2014-09-13 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
On Thursday 11 September 2014 15:56:01 Arjun Ak wrote: > How about having something similar to the eudyptula challenge > (http://eudyptula-challenge.org/) ? Please don't take this personally, Arjun, but the challenge you linked to serves as the ideal example of how we should _not_ do this ;) Its

Re: [kde-community] Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is.....

2014-09-13 Thread Arjun Ak
>- Allowing email as the only way of communication The kernel community uses email as the primary form of communication. Patches can only be submitted via emails. They also have a very strict format for sending patches (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches). >- Telling peopl

[kde-community] KDE/Linux-able netbook

2014-09-13 Thread Carl Symons
David Weinberger is one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Influential techie. Earlier today, he tweeted: Just spent 3 of my first 5 hours with my new Windows computer removing redirect malware. It was 1/3 price of a Mac. Worth it? Hmmm. I replied: @dweinberger Just spent ~1 hour inst

Re: [kde-community] Your Akademy take-away?

2014-09-13 Thread Milian Wolff
On Friday 12 September 2014 14:02:39 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks :) > > What are the most important things you took away from this year's Akademy? Personally, I think our community is highly social, inclusive and diverse - i.e. awesome. And while I also think that technically our software

Re: [kde-community] KDE/Linux-able netbook

2014-09-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On 13/09/2014 16:02, Carl Symons wrote: > David Weinberger is one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto. > Influential techie. > > Earlier today, he tweeted: Just spent 3 of my first 5 hours with my > new Windows computer removing redirect malware. It was 1/3 price of a > Mac. Worth it? Hmmm.

Re: [kde-community] KDE/Linux-able netbook

2014-09-13 Thread Carl Symons
On 09/13/2014 10:53 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: On 13/09/2014 16:02, Carl Symons wrote: David Weinberger is one of the authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto. Influential techie. Earlier today, he tweeted: Just spent 3 of my first 5 hours with my new Windows computer removing redirect malware. It was

Re: [kde-community] Your Akademy take-away?

2014-09-13 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-09-12, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks :) > > What are the most important things you took away from this year's Akademy? One thing my thoughts still circles back to is a specific moment during Tejo's bof about the KDE Community vs the Qt Community where we were asked to write 3 strong

Re: [kde-community] KDE/Linux-able netbook

2014-09-13 Thread Adriaan de Groot
On Saturday, September 13, 2014 08:02:12 AM Carl Symons wrote: > Half an hour later, he tweeted: > Suggestions for a linux-able netbook? Cheap, great battery life, 500gb > HDD (or user-upgradable). Wimpy CPU/GPU is fine. Once upon a time we had Hettes here in .nl, which was a company specialized i