Re: Funding opportunity for your projects

2022-10-31 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Scarlett, On vrijdag 28 oktober 2022 14:22:06 CET Scarlett Moore wrote: > Would packaging all the apps in the different formats ( snap, appimage, > flatpak ) be considered a project? You can find more information about the funding areas on NLNet's website: https://nlnet.nl/themes/ (more info

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On donderdag 9 april 2020 15:29:22 CEST Noah Davis wrote: > I've seen a lot of people on Reddit and various chat rooms who are a > fan of Kt as a name. I'd advise against this discussion at this point, it doesn't belong here, it's a topic that can quickly explode, lead to bike-shedding and distra

Re: Qt, Open Source and corona

2020-04-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On donderdag 9 april 2020 14:12:36 CEST Clemens Toennies wrote: > On Apr 9, 2020 11:34, "Jens" wrote: > > > Hosting of the website also wouldn't be an issue (and if it ends up > > > being high traffic, as long as the content is cacheable we can rely on > > > Cloudflare). People would need to step

Re: Neon Pinebook Remix as part of KDE

2018-04-19 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On woensdag 18 april 2018 08:54:53 CEST Volker Krause wrote: > On Wednesday, 11 April 2018 15:18:05 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > > How do we feel about shipping installable images with non-free > > supporting software? The alternative is to drop and not ship any more > > images for Plasma Act

Re: KDE stand at FOSS-North

2018-03-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On zaterdag 10 maart 2018 18:55:04 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote: > I have submitted two talks to FOSS-North, a one (or two) day event in > Gothenburg [1]. I would like to run a KDE stand there, with KDE demos and > possibly ome merchandise. I brought this up earlier on this list. > > The event is ap

Re: do you need www.kde.org write access?

2018-03-08 Thread Sebastian Kügler
;> On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:31:21 CET Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > >> > Hi all, > > >> > > > >> > We have been working on a modernized website and backend for > > >> > www.kde.org. > > >> > The new site will do

Re: do you need www.kde.org write access?

2018-03-07 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On woensdag 7 maart 2018 15:31:50 CET Nick Boyce wrote: > On 7 March 2018 at 11:31, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > We have been working on a modernized website and backend for www.kde.org. > > The new site will do away with the old PHP custom CMS and will run > > wordpress in

Re: do you need www.kde.org write access?

2018-03-07 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On woensdag 7 maart 2018 13:31:27 CET Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > On 7 March 2018 at 12:42, Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > > On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:31:21 CET Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We have been working on a modernized website and backend for ww

Re: do you need www.kde.org write access?

2018-03-07 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On woensdag 7 maart 2018 12:42:23 CET Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:31:21 CET Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We have been working on a modernized website and backend for www.kde.org. > > The new site will do away with the old

do you need www.kde.org write access?

2018-03-07 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi all, We have been working on a modernized website and backend for www.kde.org. The new site will do away with the old PHP custom CMS and will run wordpress instead. This means that access control will be different, so we have to make sure that we do not interrupt critical workflows by cutti

Re: Input on privacy goal

2018-01-23 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, January 22, 2018 7:14:27 PM CET Volker Krause wrote: > Sure, I have specific plans too, I just wanted something to evaluate them > against first [...] That's awesome. Thanks Volker! -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org

Re: Input on privacy goal

2018-01-22 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On vrijdag 19 januari 2018 15:30:25 CET Volker Krause wrote: > On Friday, 19 January 2018 14:49:58 CET Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > I'd like to collect some more input from the wider KDE community about our > > privacy goal for the next years. If you're unsure what I&#x

Input on privacy goal

2018-01-19 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi all, I'd like to collect some more input from the wider KDE community about our privacy goal for the next years. If you're unsure what I'm talking about, please have a look at https://vizzzion.org/blog/2017/11/kdes-goal-privacy/ Specifically, I'm collecting input on the following questions /

Re: Telemetry Policy - Remaining Questions

2017-10-31 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, October 31, 2017 10:39:38 AM CET Volker Krause wrote: > On Monday, 30 October 2017 21:24:59 CET Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El dilluns, 30 d’octubre de 2017, a les 9:56:52 CET, Volker Krause > > va > > > Let's try to finally get this finished > > > > > > The only remaining blocker is

Re: Goal: Improve Plasma Mobile platform for end-user needs

2017-10-17 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:38:14 +0200 Dominik Haumann wrote: > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Sebastian Kügler > wrote: > > On maandag 4 september 2017 23:10:34 CEST Dominik Haumann wrote: > > [...] > >> What I would propose to give this a big push is this ambit

Re: Added a resources page on community.ko

2017-10-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On zondag 8 oktober 2017 21:29:08 CEST Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > On Sunday, 8 October 2017, Olivier Churlaud wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wanted to share with you that I added a page for KDE talks and resources > > on https://community.kde.org/Resources > > Thanks, to improve navigation how about Ta

Re: [Update] Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Privacy Software

2017-09-25 Thread Sebastian Kügler
> Am 2017-09-22 14:48, schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > > What I need now: > > > > * Review: Please look over the proposal, make trivial fixes right > > there, propose more comprehensible or possibly goal-altering changes > > in the comments of that page or in this

[Update] Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Privacy Software

2017-09-22 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi all, ~One month ago, I asked for input and inspiration for the KDE Goal "Privacy Software", see https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2017q3/003892.html I've put some more time, brainpower and patience into that, and put together a fairly comprehensible goal proposal, which can be found

Re: Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Privacy Software

2017-09-22 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On vrijdag 22 september 2017 06:36:51 CEST Bhushan Shah wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 06:14:22PM +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > > > "In 5 years, KDE software enables and promotes privacy" > > Can you please submit this goal to goal settings phabricato

Re: new here, and bug question

2017-09-20 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Fred, On woensdag 20 september 2017 16:21:44 CEST fredj...@fredjame.cnc.net wrote: > Please pardon the top-posting ... I am including the message to/from > kde-community below, as background ... please note the link to a bug > listed on Mageia, as it pretty much clarifies what I am referring to

Re: Randa Meeting: Notes on Voice Control in KDE

2017-09-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUhvKTq6c40 (somewhat dated, but gives a dece

Plasma Mobile - Purism meeting notes

2017-09-08 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi, Some people involved in Plasma Mobile and KDE's promo efforts had a meeting with Purism, a company who is running a crowdfunding campaign to create a privacy-focused "free software" phone yesterday. I've taken some notes as to keep the community in the loop. These notes may not be complete, b

Re: Goal: Improve Plasma Mobile platform for end-user needs

2017-09-05 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On dinsdag 5 september 2017 01:26:44 CEST Aleix Pol wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Bhushan Shah > wrote: > > 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 y

Re: Goal: Improve Plasma Mobile platform for end-user needs

2017-09-05 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On maandag 4 september 2017 23:10:34 CEST Dominik Haumann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Bhushan Shah > wrote: > > 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 almos

Re: Splitting Craft, move the recipes to GitHub

2017-08-23 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On woensdag 23 augustus 2017 15:38:38 CEST Luigi Toscano wrote: > On Wednesday, 23 August 2017 15:33:09 CEST Hannah von Reth wrote: > > We have been thinking about splitting the Craft recipes into a separate > > repository for some time now. > > To have a Craft core and the recipes separated would

Re: Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Privacy Software

2017-08-21 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017 21:58:32 +0200 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On 2017 M08 18, Fri 18:14:22 CEST Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > "In 5 years, KDE software enables and promotes privacy" > > ... does that kind of imply that we need to offer a range of > applications

Re: Mission has been accepted

2017-08-21 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On maandag 21 augustus 2017 10:48:06 CEST Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On zaterdag 19 augustus 2017 21:58:26 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > > > Given that there were no further comments I have now removed the draft > > tag from the Mission at https://community.kde.org/KDE/M

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

2017-08-21 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On maandag 21 augustus 2017 08:42:42 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:38:17 CEST Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > > > On dinsdag 15 augustus 2017 00:47:15 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > > > > If I get at least two people to agree in this thre

Re: Mission has been accepted

2017-08-21 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On zaterdag 19 augustus 2017 21:58:26 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Given that there were no further comments I have now removed the draft > tag from the Mission at https://community.kde.org/KDE/Mission. > Thank you everyone for your comments and the fruitful discussion. I am > grateful for your in

Re: Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Privacy Software

2017-08-21 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On vrijdag 18 augustus 2017 18:14:22 CEST Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Your thoughts and input? Thanks all, for the rather useful input! It's definitely something I can work with! -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org

Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Privacy Software

2017-08-18 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi all, I spent some time thinking and working on a proposal for the big hairy audacious goal (1), the goal that the KDE community sets for itself to strive for in the next five years. (Context: re-read the thread started by Kevin with the subject "Proposal: Have the Community Set Ambitious Goals

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

2017-08-16 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On dinsdag 15 augustus 2017 00:47:15 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > If I get at least two people to agree in this thread that they will > submit a goal I commit to making the process work according to the > proposed timeline. I'll do that. We probably should coordinate somehow which goals, so we do

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

2017-08-02 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:20:11 +0200 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Thanks everyone who worked on putting this together at Akademy. I > believe this is a way that can work well for us as a community. > > So one of the things we still need to iron out is the timeline. Here > is a straw man proposal: > *

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-10 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On maandag 10 juli 2017 13:44:54 CEST Adriaan de Groot wrote: > > It just occurred to me, that it would be good at this point to gauge with > > the active community what a mission would be, some simple questions such > > as: > > > > - Have you been contributing in any significant way to KDE in th

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-10 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On zondag 9 juli 2017 17:41:03 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello, > > On Friday, 7 July 2017 23:16:32 CEST Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On 2017 M07 7, Fri 07:21:32 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > > > > How about collecting ideas for that ? > > > > We have already 5. > > > > > > 5? I missed a couple I

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-06 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On donderdag 6 juli 2017 01:45:59 CEST Clemens Toennies wrote: > Am 05.07.2017 um 22:58 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: > > On 2017 M07 5, Wed 15:05:26 CEST Clemens Toennies wrote: > >> On Jul 5, 2017 13:14, "Sebastian Kügler" wrote: > > >> How about Freedo

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-05 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On woensdag 5 juli 2017 12:17:10 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > IOW, knowing the organization as a whole decided on some sort of direction > at least for a while would prompt me into looking beyond my usual comfort > zone. By doing that with the two examples above we might see a stronger > influx of co

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-07-02 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Kevin, On zondag 2 juli 2017 03:43:57 CEST Kevin Ottens wrote: > In my opinion our answer to "where we want to go" was supposed to be > something else than "nowhere in particular". Then I think we're falling > very short on that. We face a problem, and instead of putting our efforts > to find w

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-06-27 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On dinsdag 27 juni 2017 07:24:21 CEST Luca Beltrame wrote: > Il giorno Mon, 29 May 2017 21:17:29 +0200 > Lydia Pintscher ha scritto: > > > > > I'd like to invite you all to take a look at the current draft and > > provide your constructive feedback so we can use this as the basis for > > our wo

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-06-22 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Christian, On donderdag 22 juni 2017 00:02:00 CEST Christian Mollekopf wrote: > I'm new on the list so sorry for not replying to the thread. > > I was asked to contribute my feedback on the Vision/Mission, so here it > goes. > > I like Vision and Mission-Statement and they generally reflect m

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-06-14 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On dinsdag 13 juni 2017 22:00:02 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > > > On zondag 11 juni 2017 18:02:56 CEST Albert Vaca wrote: > > > >> Thanks for putting this together! Some (late and) minor thoughts on &

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-06-13 Thread Sebastian Kügler
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 development, I'm wondering if it's > worthwhile having a statement

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-06-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On zondag 11 juni 2017 18:02:56 CEST Albert Vaca wrote: > Thanks for putting this together! Some (late and) minor thoughts on wording: > > I like that we state we want to "integrate well with other Free products to > complete the experience". I would explicitly mention "other Free *software* > and

Re: latest draft for mission (and strategy)

2017-05-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Agustin, On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 4:07:37 PM CEST Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: > thanks for driving this discussion. It is a needed one. Here are my > early comments: > > * "builds on open standards to prevent "lock-in" - I think that > prevent lock-in is not a reason but a consequence of

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

2017-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On donderdag 12 januari 2017 11:18:07 CET Harald Sitter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: > > > > Bottom line: we would like a Phab instance so that we can use the task > > board, and perhaps the built-in wiki. The sysadmins want the KDE > > Community to give

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

2016-09-30 Thread Sebastian Kügler
a phone conference earlier this week with those involved this discussion, so the work is still ongoing. It's not a trivial thing to solve, but we are making progress. Cheers, -- sebas Sebastian Kügler•http://vizZzion.org•http://www.kde.org

Re: KDE Licensing Policy Updates

2016-09-21 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On dinsdag 20 september 2016 22:54:54 CEST Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On the other hand: Is Qt still used much for web services? It may in the future. During QtCon, Lars Knoll mentioned to make Qt render to web browser as one possible future goal. We also have vague plans for kwin to do that. >

Re: Creating a map of KDE contributors?

2016-09-20 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On dinsdag 20 september 2016 11:49:43 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Gnome already do this > https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeWorldWide > > and I have vauge memories of KDE doing it in the past too, or maybe I dreamt > that You didn't dream that: https://dot.kde.org/2002/03/16/kde-worldwide-goes-live

Re: [kde-community] Register for QtCon

2016-08-05 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On donderdag 4 augustus 2016 14:38:55 CEST Kenny Duffus wrote: > On Thursday, 4 August 2016 14:57:37 BST Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On donderdag 4 augustus 2016 10:07:53 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > > If you plan to come to QtCon and have not registered yet please do so &

Re: [kde-community] Register for QtCon

2016-08-04 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On donderdag 4 augustus 2016 10:07:53 CEST Lydia Pintscher wrote: > If you plan to come to QtCon and have not registered yet please do so > asap. On-site registration right at the event is highly discouraged > this year as it makes the organisation of the event considerably > harder for us. Please

Re: [kde-community] KDE store sprint

2016-04-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
py to accommodate (hah!). Thanks, and have a nice weekend, -- sebas On Tuesday, April 05, 2016 12:47:54 PM Sebastian Kügler wrote: > As you may have followed, at Blue Systems, we're in the process of > revamping the infrastructure around add-ons, basically what is currently > served

Re: [kde-community] user stats for Neon

2016-04-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
this. If we want to be serious about privacy, this *has* to be opt-in. Otherwise, we might as well not write privacy into our vision. -- sebas Sebastian Kügler•http://vizZzion.org•http://www.kde.org ___ kde-community mailing list kde-

Re: [kde-community] user stats for Neon

2016-04-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
ler and easier to understand thing: "Plasma does not track" ...unless you tell it to do so, but in its pristine settings, it doesn't. This message can set us apart positively. -- sebas Sebastian Kügler•http://vizZzion.org•http://www.kde.org _

Re: [kde-community] KDE store sprint

2016-04-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Alexander, On Saturday, April 09, 2016 09:52:37 AM Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote: > Hi, I would also be interested in that sprint, especially with a KDE Edu > specific view on requirements (in particular language learning, but also > learning resources for applications in general). > I am probabl

Re: [kde-community] KDE store sprint

2016-04-06 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Wednesday, April 06, 2016 10:12:13 PM Ben Cooksley wrote: > Which Alexander do I need to contact? I can probably arrange that... I'll get you in contact off-list. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org ___ kde-community mailing list kde-c

Re: [kde-community] KDE store sprint

2016-04-06 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Ben, On Wednesday, April 06, 2016 09:06:56 PM Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:47 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > As you may have followed, at Blue Systems, we're in the process of > > revamping the infrastructure around add-ons, basically what is cur

Re: [kde-community] QtCon CfP published

2016-04-06 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, April 04, 2016 02:35:42 PM Kenny Duffus wrote: > The CfP for QtCon has now been published: > > https://dot.kde.org/2016/04/04/qtcon-call-papers Just to be sure: There won't be a separate call for papers for Akademy, so if I want to speak at Akademy, I'll send my talk proposal in here,

[kde-community] KDE store sprint

2016-04-05 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi all, As you may have followed, at Blue Systems, we're in the process of revamping the infrastructure around add-ons, basically what is currently served by opendesktop.org. One of our goals is to open up development of an ocs-compatible server component. As we're nearing completion of the

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - final version

2016-03-18 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:53:03 PM David Jarvie wrote: > This may read a bit better, although it does slightly alter the emphasis: > > "A world in which everyone has control over their digital life and enjoys > freedom and privacy." I love this. It conveys what we want, and brings in a positi

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - final version

2016-03-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 08:26:15 AM Stephen Kelly wrote: > Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > "A world in which everyone enjoys freedom and privacy and has control > > over their digital life." > > > > Unless there are major objections within the next week I would like to > > conclude the process and fr

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - final version

2016-03-14 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, March 14, 2016 10:24:45 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Monday, March 14, 2016 14:58:57 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > ... > > > Next steps: > > * publish the vision. I'm still working out what needs doing. > > can we please try to publish vision and mission together ? > If things go well,

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - second draft for discussion

2016-02-25 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, February 23, 2016 04:50:16 PM Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > After reading all of the above, which put into words my inchaote > thoughts, I would like to offer the following version: > > KDE: control your digital life > > Freedom, technology, software, privacy, all of that is IN there. I

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, February 15, 2016 05:51:57 AM A. Spehr wrote: > "World domination through free software." > > Maybe that's too flippant, or more the vision of Linux and not KDE, but that > was my first thought as I glanced at this in the middle of the night, while > half asleep. Who doesn't want to tak

Re: [kde-community] Vision, mission and manifesto - what is their definition and purpose?

2016-02-14 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, February 12, 2016 09:15:39 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > No, seriously, in the last weeks several people contacted me in private > > > email and expressed that they are not exactly happy, some even > > > seriously > > > frustrated with the strong emphasis on non-technical topics in

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-14 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, February 12, 2016 09:15:09 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Friday, February 12, 2016 21:00:37 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > ... > > > Maybe what you want is an overarching product vision instead of a > > community > > vision, after all? > > I think I can answer at least for everybody from

Re: [kde-community] Vision, mission and manifesto - what is their definition and purpose?

2016-02-11 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 09:42:31 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > Also, what do you think about the relation between vision and mission ? > > > > When I joined the "vision team", my original proposal was to only define a > > mission, because I felt that visions make more sense for product

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-11 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 10:08:19 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:03:47 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:15:21 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > > I'll also start a new sub-thread. > > > Since this visio

Re: [kde-community] Vision, mission and manifesto - what is their definition and purpose?

2016-02-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
t strategy to follow. When reading the "alternative", technologically focused draft proposal, I think it makes a fine mission statement, it explains what our strategy is to reach our goals, so how we work to achieve them. In that light, I see both proposals as complementary. I can find

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
rojects which you > see as not part of this vision ? Sure. Projects that use open source licenses for purely economical reasons, or those that don't care about the user, or her privacy. A lot of it is about priorities, and the reason why people work on these project, their goals. --

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 23:07:56 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 10:41:07 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > ... > > > As Martin said very well already: By defining our goals not in terms of > > technology but in terms of values and principl

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, February 09, 2016 08:40:07 AM David Edmundson wrote: > With the unfocussed vision, Unfocused? One vision focuses on technologies (Qt, GUI, etc.), one on values (Freedom, user control, privacy). Both provide focus, just very different ones. A vision is a goal, a desired result. That'

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-08 Thread Sebastian Kügler
al for KDE not in technical terms, but in terms of Freedom, user control and privacy. -- sebas Sebastian Kügler|http://vizZzion.org| http://kde.org ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - an alternative draft for discussion

2016-02-08 Thread Sebastian Kügler
ortant future technology will be driven by graphical user interfaces? Some probably will, but I wouldn't make it a deciding aspect for what we accept as KDE projects. The further you look into the future, the less likely this kind of assumption is to hold true. -- sebas Sebastian Kügler

Re: [kde-community] Differences between proposed vision drafts (or "inclusive" vs "focused")

2016-02-08 Thread Sebastian Kügler
view, we're turning KDE into a self-fulfilling prophecy out of touch with what we can give to the world. Even the world domination joke is not an end goal, but a means to offer Freedom solutions. World domination brings with it some interesting network

Re: [kde-community] finding a clear vision for KDE - first draft for discussion

2016-02-08 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, February 05, 2016 05:00:28 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Wednesday 03 February 2016 10:10:27 Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > The first draft reads as follows: > > "KDE, through the creation of Free software, > > "through the creation of Free software" sounds like (part of) a mission > stateme

Re: [kde-community] Differences between proposed vision drafts (or "inclusive" vs "focused")

2016-02-08 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, February 04, 2016 08:49:55 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote: > Still we don't see linear algebra libraries or build tools as the main goal > KDE is trying to achieve (...says the guy who maintained the KDE > buildsystem for more than 7 years). Next counter-example: The Eigen library, a li

Re: [kde-community] RFC: Distribution outreach program

2016-02-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Saturday, January 30, 2016 07:09:16 PM Aleix Pol wrote: > > Personally not, but I'd like other people from distributions to chime in. > > How about coming up with a set of scripts that give score to an > installation? > > This way we can say "OpenSuse scored X points/K stars in our > compatibi

Re: [kde-community] About ocs-server future

2016-01-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
here's a lot of work ahead, but improvements in this space bring us a lot of potential for substantial improvements for our users. I hope this gives you a better idea of what has been discussed since we last talked. Cheers, -- sebas Sebastian Kügle

Re: [kde-community] About ocs-server future

2016-01-15 Thread Sebastian Kügler
I'm cutting out a lot of text here, which again contains misrepresentations, but I don't think discussing these in detail contributes to a conclusion here, so I'll concentrate on what matters instead. On Friday, January 15, 2016 03:54:15 AM Claudio Desideri wrote: > been used replacing openDeskt

Re: [kde-community] About ocs-server future

2016-01-14 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Claudio, Since you addressed me directly, and I was involved with the process, I'd like to chime in here. On Thursday, January 14, 2016 06:55:37 PM Claudio Desideri wrote: > We'd loved to continue development of ocs-server (and clients) but the > current status of things seems not too encoura

[kde-community] can you give a talk at Linuxwochen Wien?

2016-01-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi all, An invitation to participate in the Linuxwochen Wien has landed in my inbox. As I won't be able to make it, perhaps someone else (living closer?) will be. If you're in Wien, or in Austria, KDE and the organisers would surely appreciate if you could give a talk there. For that, please g

Re: [kde-community] Phabricator: Make it happen already!

2015-08-27 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 16:00:56 David Edmundson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 20:57:25 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > > > +1 > > > (I am using it as if it was official) > > > > Same her

Re: [kde-community] Phabricator: Make it happen already!

2015-08-27 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 20:57:25 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: > +1 > (I am using it as if it was official) Same here. The Plasma team is in the process of migrating to phaaab! already. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 ___

Re: [kde-community] Updating TechBase Getting_Started pages

2015-08-17 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, August 17, 2015 09:53:58 John Layt wrote: > I've started to update the old TechBase Getting_Started pages for the > new KF5 world [1]. > > My aim is to teach the one simplest quickest way to build KF5 for new > KDE contributors. There's a few key concepts I want this rewrite to > follow

Re: [kde-community] Trademark clause in the Manifesto

2015-07-29 Thread Sebastian Kügler
27;d be concerned with either, because also migration of projects with non- registered (or rather, not yet registered) trademarks have been an issue in the past. -- sebas Sebastian Kügler|http://vizZzion.org| http://kde.org ___ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community

Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM Organisation

2014-12-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, December 08, 2014 20:27:22 Rick Timmis wrote: > You expanded my think with clarity and intelligence, thank you. > > I am sorry i SHOUTED, that was not necessary No offense taken, no harm done. :) > I agree re personal / organisational, I had not considered it from this > point of vie

Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM Organisation

2014-12-08 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Rick, all, On Sunday, December 07, 2014 00:26:08 Rick Timmis wrote: > STOP, That is Enough !! > > This conversation does not belong here, it is devisive, confrontational and > can not be resolved here.. That may be true for some replies, but it's not true for the discussion itself. KDE consi

Re: [kde-community] 2012, 2013 GSoC students

2014-11-10 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Saturday, November 08, 2014 22:18:59 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Oh good grief, Bshah suggested I put this in Notes. Why I didn't think > of thatSheesh! > > https://notes.kde.org/p/KDEmentorship > > No need to send me anything. -v What a nice trip down memory lane! I've gone over the list

Re: [kde-community] Fwd: Top 15 Mailinglists with messages in moderation

2014-09-02 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, September 02, 2014 21:45:15 Ben Cooksley wrote: > 18 kde-ev-marketing This was mostly spam. I don't bother deleting every spam message separately, as that's a waste of time. For a list with relatively low traffic (such as this), it's not an uncommon number. I've modded everythin

Re: [kde-community] Closing the kde-core-devel mailing list

2014-08-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, August 05, 2014 21:28:14 Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Tuesday, 2014-08-05, 20:29:05, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El Dilluns, 4 d'agost de 2014, a les 20:36:44, Vishesh Handa va escriure: > > > > > > Random Idea: How about we close the k-c-d mailing list? It's main > > > purpose > > > used

Re: [kde-community] Fundraising

2014-07-21 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, July 17, 2014 10:50:04 Mario Fux wrote: > Oh and I like very much the idea of Boud to add right most (RTL: left-most) > this "Donate to/sponser KDE" action/button to the tool bar of most of our > apps. That's a no-go from my side (and likely from most app developers' sides as well).

Re: [kde-community] Fundraising

2014-07-10 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, July 10, 2014 22:20:26 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dijous, 10 de juliol de 2014, a les 18:08:42, John Layt va escriure: > > The simplest would be to add a "Donate to KDE..." item in the Help > > menu which would pop-up the donate dialog, which would display the > > latest campaigns.

Re: [kde-community] Oxygen Fonts kdereview remove

2014-07-03 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, July 03, 2014 14:49:13 Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Plasma 5 is going to default on Oxygen Fonts so we need Oxygen Fonts to move > to kde/workspace. > > It's currently in kdereview and I am using the release-0.4 branch. > > Please have a look and review. Wrong list? -- sebas http://w

Re: [kde-community] Proposal Tre: More formal release and announcement processes

2014-04-28 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Saturday, April 26, 2014 10:26:28 Jos Poortvliet wrote: > > Isn't it part of KDE Promo to provide communcation from people to people? > > Automating everything also renders the promo itself useless. Note that > > everything promo says is available in tons of different automated formats > > at th

Re: [kde-community] praises and suggestions for the KDE team

2014-02-18 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 11:15:55 Jeff Mitchell wrote: > On 17 Feb 2014, at 7:46, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > On Friday, February 14, 2014 13:00:57 Jeff Mitchell wrote: > >> I thought this was a really nice letter that was sent to us, so I'm > >> passing it on

Re: [kde-community] Fwd: praises and suggestions for the KDE team

2014-02-17 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, February 14, 2014 13:00:57 Jeff Mitchell wrote: > I thought this was a really nice letter that was sent to us, so I'm > passing it on to the community. I did already get in touch with him > about the 4.0 release, but I'm happy to forward along responses on any > other topic. Just a q

Re: [kde-community] licence policy updates

2014-02-14 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, February 14, 2014 16:02:03 Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Jonathan Riddell wrote: > > I've made some proposed changes to the KDE Licensing Policy > > > > http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy/Draft > > > > Most significant is the inclusion of GPL 3+

Re: [kde-community] Request to join the Kde incubator for GCompris

2014-02-14 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, February 13, 2014 21:19:31 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > So maybe it's time we think about adding GPLv3+ to the Licensing Policy? > > What do you guys think? I'd welcome that. It would feel wrong to me to reject an application to participate in KDE because it chose the wrong version o

Re: [kde-community] Plasmoids and Apps - was - Re: Applications in KDE Generation 5

2014-01-17 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Friday, January 17, 2014 09:21:29 Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > > Can you start it from the command line? > > > > > > plasma-windowed can be run from the commandline, e.g. > > > plasma-windowed org.kde.networkmanagement > > > > That's a bit too long vs "kcalc", but i guess you could always install

Re: [kde-community] Applications in KDE Generation 5

2014-01-16 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:42:43 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > * Is this an application that is commonly provided by bare-bones desktop > envs? (Yes: +1; both because it means it duplicates features in other envs > but also because it is probably *expected* to be there by users) > * Is this an app

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