Fwd: Re: Bystander Intervention and Allyship Virtual Workshops

2022-06-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I'm not sure I can go, but anyone wanting this training is welcome to participate, so sign up if you want to learn how to stop bullying when you see it. Valorie -- Forwarded message - From: 'sttaylor' via Google Summer of Code Mentors List < google-summer-of-code-mentors-l...@goog

Re: KDE Network in the USA

2022-06-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi Bhavisha, there is still a KDE-USA mail list at https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usa which should be informed as well! Valorie On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 7:31 AM Bhavisha Dhruve wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The KDE Network team is pleased to announce that KDE Network-USA is > participa

Re: [announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

2023-08-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
My response is interspersed. On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 9:51 AM Paul Brown wrote: > On Wednesday, 23 August 2023 17:04:04 CEST Ingo Klöcker wrote: > > On Mittwoch, 23. August 2023 16:55:25 CEST Niccolò Ve wrote: > > > > Postponing the deadline is not ideal, since there always will be > people > > >

Re: [GSoC Mentors] GSoC 2024 open for org applications January 22 - February 6

2024-01-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I'm willing to remain on the list of co-admins, but will not be able to be more active than I was last year. Valorie On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 6:32 PM Johnny Jazeix wrote: > Hi, > > Are there people willing to help co-admin this year? It would be nice to > be at least 3 to share the workload. > >

Re: "I Love KDE"

2024-02-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I love KDE! The community, who welcomed me so many years ago, the developers who respected me as a non-coding (except in English!) person and contributor, all of the wonderful packagers who provide our fabulous software to users around the world, the distro leaders who not only keep useful bug repo

Re: Proposal unify back our release schedules

2024-04-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 9:39 AM Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello, > > ::most history snipped:: > > And then have a single big marketing > announcement for a Plasma x.y.2 per year with its own marketing name. > > ::snip:: > > > * Only have one release announcement on our website. We can call it

Re: [kde-community] intro to kde-community mailing list

2013-04-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 6:14 AM, Agustin Benito Bethencourt (toscalix) wrote: > Hi, > > I think that it is a good practice that we introduce ourselves since this is a > new open list. Hi folks, I'm Valorie Zimmerman, part of the Community Working Group for the greater KDE com

Re: [kde-community] Conflict Resolution

2013-07-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Great idea to post this on this list, Jos! On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:01 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Hi all, > > Peter, Valerie and myself will host a session on Monday from 17:00 to 18:00 to > discuss how we, in KDE, can and should deal with the dark side of communities: > poisonous behavior and

[kde-community] BoF on Documentation

2013-07-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, we all know how important documentation is to our users. What is sometimes ignored is how important documentation can be in moving "regular users" into KDE community members. Claus and I will host a BoF about this on Wednesday, July 17th 2013 at 10:15 until lunch in Room A4. Claus starte

[kde-community] Community Working Group Report to the e.V. AGM 2013

2013-07-29 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
their fields. At the present moment, both art & design, and sysadmin people could make a huge contribution to KDE. How do we reach these experts, and draw them into our community? Perhaps this discussion should widen. Respectfully submitted, Valorie Zimmerman for the CWG More about the e.V.

[kde-community] New Community Working Group team member needed

2013-07-31 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
tures, communication and training for our leaders to improve governance across the entire community. Please write us at community...@kde.org if you would like to help out. Please tell us about yourself, and why you think you would be the best candidate to work with the group. For the CWG, Valorie Zimm

Re: [kde-community] Proposals for dealing with bad behavior

2013-08-02 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Dear all, > > At Akademy, Valery, Peter and myself organized a BoF session about conflict > handling. Valery wanted to discuss the situation around mailing list- and IRC > moderation; I had a proposal for those few cases (just a handful in th

Re: [kde-community] Code of Conduct violations

2013-08-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, I'm replying to this old thread because there has been some work behind the scenes on this banning discussion. Response below. On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/08/13 12:29, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Some time ag

Re: [kde-community] Statement of support for our devs?

2013-10-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, sorry for the top-post. We've gotten the request to initiate a formal contact with the Ubuntu Community Manager, and are considering the proper response. Valorie, for the CWG On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Christoph Cullmann wrote: > - Ursprüngliche Mail - > > > And we are

Re: [kde-community] Discussion: KDE Manifesto, "web services"

2013-11-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello community, > > In the principles section of the manifesto, we have the following point: > "Projects that choose not to host their web services on KDE infrastructure > need to provide administrative access to the KDE sysadmin team; or, i

Re: [kde-community] Proposal: KDE Manifesto wording revision

2013-11-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Eike Hein wrote: > On Monday 11 November 2013 14:25:32 Kevin Ottens wrote: >> I'd like to note I'm glad that you all took the time to resolve this issue >> by using a better medium than email. Thanks for that, less time spent >> tracking emails and ideas back and f

Re: [kde-community] We urgently need more tasks for Google Code-in

2013-12-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Heya folks :) > > We currently have only 12 tasks left over for the students and over > 100 were already done. We should always have at least 30 open. I will > now add a few more tasks but please everyone think about what you'd > like some 1

[kde-community] Kubuntu documentation

2013-12-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, Recently I wrote to the KDE Docs team and KDE WWW team asking for permission to put working copies of the Kubuntu documentation on the Userbase wiki. Albert raised an interesting objection, which I can only bring to this group for discussion. Kubuntu isn't a KDE project under the Manife

Re: [kde-community] The KDE Incubator needs YOU

2013-12-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote: > Hey Kevin, > > Nobody else stepped up so I will. I read through the different phases > in the wiki and wonder what a starting kit would look like. I'll read > through the other notes you mentioned and linked to the community page > and see w

Re: [kde-community] Tupi: Open 2D Magic

2013-12-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Wonderful! On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, December 23, 2013 00:14:13 Gustav González wrote: >> So guys, what is the next step we should take to join the KDE community? > > First off: Tupi looks *awesome* .. nicely done :) > > You’ve probably already seen the K

Re: [kde-community] Incubating project

2013-12-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Jeremy Whiting wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm pleased to announce the KDE Incubator is incubating a project > WikiFM as described here: > http://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/WikiFM . > > Though the incubation process is still a work in progress we thought > w

Re: [kde-community] Incubating project

2013-12-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
er 2-year institutions of higher education and the first two years (lower division) of 4-year institutions. Some of our activities also apply to K-12, upper division, graduate school, and life-long learning. Such an excellent idea! Valorie > Il 30/dic/2013 23:36 "Valorie Zimmerman&qu

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

2014-01-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, I've finally gotten up-to-date on this long, technical and emotional discussion. I'd just like to say, I love each of you who wrote. You care about quality, you care about the KDE community, and you care deeply about one another. Damn do I love this community. As long as we can keep reme

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

2014-01-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 4:37 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dimecres, 15 de gener de 2014, a les 21:47:17, John Layt va escriure: >> Hi, >> >> * A number of our apps and utilities really have had their day and >> need "retiring", e.g. KsCD, Kppp, KFloppy. There's no point keeping >> low-qualit

Re: [kde-community] updating kde.org/contact

2014-02-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
\o/ On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > Hi, > > At some discussion, it came up that kde.org/contact is quite a bit outdated. > Some of these folks are indeed still contact people, others are not. I will write each of the contact addresses, ask those folks if they are still t

[kde-community] KDE contact needed for CANADA

2014-02-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, we have some outdated information on the contact page, http://kde.org/contact/ . George, and Aaron, previously the Canadian contacts, are not able to do that now. So we need a Canadian living in Canada able and willing to do this for KDE. Now that Olympic curling and hockey are over, per

[kde-community] KDE Books

2014-03-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, some months ago Mario Fux spoke to me about heading up a book sprint at the Randa meeting this summer [1]. Some of you might be aware of the KDE Developer book which we wrote a couple of years ago at a book sprint hosted by Google. You can read it or download it as a PDF or ebook here: h

Re: [kde-community] KDE Books

2014-03-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Tuesday 04 March 2014 21:57:59 Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> Hi folks, some months ago Mario Fux spoke to me about heading up a >> book sprint at the Randa meeting this summer [1]. Some of you might be >> aware of t

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

2014-08-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
A few in-line responses below: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello, > > On Monday 04 August 2014 20:36:44 Vishesh Handa wrote: >> Random Idea: > > Heh, someone with too much time at hand? :-) > > Note that I generally find that fiddling with lists is generally generating

[kde-community] I think you should join 101 Pines/Horseshoe Lake's private website

2014-08-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello, Valorie Zimmerman invites you to join your 101 Pines/Horseshoe Lake neighbors on Nextdoor. Nextdoor is a free and private social network that your neighbors are using. Valorie wrote: "Our neighborhood is using a private online network called Nextdoor 101 Pines/Horseshoe Lake. O

Re: [kde-community] Hackaton in Timișoara Romania

2014-08-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi Ovidiu-Florin, I met a Romanian GSoC student on the train from Randa to Visp. Here is his status report: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2014/StatusReports#Calin_Cruceru:_Editing_mode_for_Polygons_inside_Marble ; perhaps that will help you to contact him to attend/help out. Hope this helps, Val

Re: [kde-community] Sad news (fwd)

2014-08-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Jens, I think that would be lovely. It is so hard to lose a member of the community. And to lose a young person, who would otherwise have a long career ahead of them, feels tragic. I would like to see a respectful Dot story, and some nice memories on blogs as well. And a named Calligra release see

[kde-community] Congratulations to the new e.V. Board! and fostering creativity

2014-09-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I just made a new blog post about creativity [1], based on the book I'm reading, Creativity Inc., by Ed Catmull, President of Pixar. The last bit is for all the leaders in KDE. This doesn't mean just the board of the e.V., by the way. The leaders in KDE are those who have volunteered to maintain pa

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

2014-09-10 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > A number of our mailing lists appear to be being insufficiently moderated. > Can we please have volunteers for moderating these lists, or > indications that they can be closed? > > @Board: Please moderate your queue more regularly.

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

2014-09-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi again [ade]! On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Sunday, September 14, 2014 01:03:47 PM Peter Grasch wrote: >> Having said that, I think that the idea of having an automized online >> workshop for KDE development similar to the Eudyptula challenge would be >> very he

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

2014-09-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
This thread seems to have stopped, so I'm starting it up again. On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Peter Grasch wrote: > On Saturday, September 13, 2014 01:03:12 PM Claus Christensen wrote: >> This is a great idea. I wouldn't mind putting in some work to make something >> like this get off the grou

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

2014-09-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks :) > > What are the most important things you took away from this year's Akademy? > > Mine are: > * We are an amazing community that really pulls together when needed. > Carrying someone up all the way to the castle because they c

Re: [kde-community] Give People Access to Great Technology - a possible vision

2014-09-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Lake wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to share a few thoughts in case it might be helpful right now. I > apologize now for the length. Not that he necessary endorses any of this, > but Thomas Pfeiffer was gracious enough to provide many of the examples of > what we

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

2014-09-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Since there has been no more feedback about this, I'll move the discussion to the KDE-www list and get it implemented. There have been numerous calls since Akademy for various jobs which could be placed on this forum space. -v On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: &

kde-community@kde.org

2014-09-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Carl Symons wrote: > Hello KDE Community... > especially those who are in US-Cascadia (aka The Pacific Northwest). > > KDE will have an exhibit space at the LISA 14 conference in Seattle[1]. Your > participation is warmly invited. We will be presenting KDE softwar

kde-community@kde.org

2014-09-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:32 AM, Carl Symons wrote: > > > On 09/29/2014 11:59 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Carl Symons >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello KDE Community... >>> especially those who are in US-Casca

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

2014-10-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
have a simple voting system in place that we can assign. This solution does not yet include a bridge to mailinglists/bugzilla, so a certain dedication from developers would be needed. Would that work for you?" :-) Yes? Valorie On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Valorie Zimmerman w

[kde-community] Google Code-In

2014-10-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
GCi has been announced. It will be pretty much the same rules as last year. The Google Code-in 2014 contest will run from December 1, 2014 to January 19, 2015, roughly 7 weeks. According to https://developers.google.com/open-source/gci/ Google Code-in is a contest for pre-university students (e.g

[kde-community] Season of KDE

2014-10-15 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks. Amidst the work of the summer, with fundraising, Randa, and Akademy, Season of KDE got sort of left out. And yet some of us feel that it is important, and that some mentors and some students want to participate. We realize the Google Code-in is approaching as well, and we don't want to o

[kde-community] Considerations for teams and mentors, re: SoK & GCi

2014-10-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
We were delayed beginning Season of KDE this year, so it will be running in close to the same time-frame as Google Code-in, however, they are very different. Season of KDE (SoK) lasts 3 months, and is for students and others (no age limits, and no schooling requirement), and thus should be one lar

Re: [kde-community] I've Joined the Game!

2014-10-26 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Jason Alan Smith wrote: > Dear KDE Community, > > A few days ago I donated a small sum in much appreciation of everyone's > hard work and dedication to the beautiful KDE project. Today I "Joined the > Game" with a quarterly donation. If it's possible, I want to s

Re: [kde-community] Google Code-In

2014-10-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
how we get things done. The application period for GCi is open, but we do not have enough tasks yet to apply. Valorie On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:37 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > GCi has been announced. It will be pretty much the same rules as last > year. The Google Code-in 2014 contest will r

[kde-community] 2012, 2013 GSoC students

2014-11-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, I'm still working away to get juicy details about our GSoC students. Since the talk will be short, I think just showing our growth and success from 2005 to the over a hundred students we had in 2012 & 2013 will be good. The takeaway I'd like is to know whether or not the students are sti

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

2014-11-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
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 On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:00 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hi folks, I'm still working away to get juicy details a

[kde-community] The Community Working Group needs you?

2014-11-21 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, Our Community Working Group[1] has dwindled a bit, and some of our members have work that keeps them away from doing CWG work. So it is time to put out another call for volunteers. The KDE community is growing, which is wonderful. In spite of that growth, we have less "police" type work

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

2014-11-22 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
! Valorie On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:59 AM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Hi folks, I proposed this directly to the Forum moderators here: > https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=123215&p=321245#p321245 > > We now have a reply: > https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1232

Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM Organisation

2014-12-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:21 PM, John Layt wrote: > Hi, > > Just a heads-up that I will not be attending FOSDEM next year and will > not be assisting in any way with preparations for FOSDEM or providing > any hardware. This is the result of the FOSDEM organisers refusing to > institute a proper Cod

Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM Organisation

2014-12-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Woah. I never thought I would hear such things here. On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > John, > > You couldn't be more wrong. > > I have been organizing the Desktops DevRoom for the last 4-5 years (cannot > really remember), so I can speak from reality. > > There is no d

Re: [kde-community] FOSDEM Organisation

2014-12-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Carl Symons wrote: > > > On 12/05/2014 09:11 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >> >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 5:21 PM, John Layt wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Just a heads-up that I will not be attending FOSDE

Re: [kde-community] Your KDE highlight of 2014?

2014-12-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hey folks :) > > 2014 is coming to an end. This gives us some time for reflection. What > are your KDE highlights of 2014? Highlights for me: Being asked by Mario to write a Frameworks book, and seeing the team come around that project. Th

Re: [kde-community] RFC: Announcing new mailing lists

2014-12-19 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > Hi guys, sometimes i realize some interesting discussions are being carried on > mailing lists i didn't ever know they existed. > > Do you think it'd be a good idea to ask sysadmins to send an email to this > list every time a new public

[kde-community] GSoC ideas page

2015-02-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, it is time to start posting GSoC ideas. I've copy/pasted the 2014 page and called it 2015 - so most of those ideas shouldn't be there. If you had an idea posted last year, and do not want it presented this year, please go to https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2015/Ideas and erase it, or repl

Re: [kde-community] GSoC ideas page

2015-02-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: >> Hi folks, it is time to start posting GSoC ideas. >> >> I've copy/pasted the 2014 page and called it 2015 - so most of those >> ideas sho

Re: [kde-community] GSoC ideas page

2015-02-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Michael Bohlender wrote: > Hi Valorie > > I just had to tell two applicants that the project they are interested is > not valid anymore. It took me while to figure out that my project proposals > are also on the 2015 Ideas page. > Not a good first impression for po

[kde-community] Some wise advice from a gentoo developer

2015-02-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, I saw this blog linked to in #gsoc today: http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2012/07/10/how-to-recruit-open-source-contributors/ I hope you'll take a look and think about our approach not just to GSoC students, but all folks who wander into our IRC channels and onto our lists. I think our main

[kde-community] Last chance; please fill in the GSoC Ideas page - or at least remove outdated entries

2015-02-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
The deadline for applying is the 20th; we need a full Ideas page [1] with mentor names/contact info attached. If we have a smaller group of mentors and students this year, that's fine. But we need a page with respectable and reliable information on it for the application. Valorie 1. https://comm

Re: [kde-community] Improving the TechBase Wiki to help new contributors getting involved in KDE

2015-03-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Mathieu Tarral wrote: > Hi everyone ! > > > I would like to raise your attention to the state of the TechBase Wiki. > > The main purpose of this wiki is to contain the technical information > needed by new contributors and everyday developers to get involved in > th

Re: [kde-community] Request to join KDE Incubator for KScreenGenie

2015-04-17 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
gt; >> I've been active on the IRC channels while I was coding this (I'm >> BaloneyGeek, hi!), and I'd like to thank Martin Graesslin who has been >> a big help through the coding process, and has guided me on what to do >> on more than one occasion. Having &

Re: [kde-community] Incubating project

2015-07-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello, > > On Monday 30 December 2013 13:37:43 Jeremy Whiting wrote: >> I'm pleased to announce the KDE Incubator is incubating a project >> WikiFM as described here: >> http://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/WikiFM . >> >> Though the in

Re: [kde-community] thank you for Akademy

2015-07-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Carl Symons wrote: > Thanks to everyone who contributed to making Akademy happen. > > I especially appreciate Kenny Duffus (seaLne) and Kenny Coyle (automatical) > who devote a lot of time and effort on Akademy throughout the year. > > Both of them work on the regi

Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github

2015-09-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I went back to the beginning of this discussion, and think a few issues have been passed over. For instance, this one which has nothing to do with the Github mirror, and everything to do with improving our own software / discoverability: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:10 AM, Jos van den Oever wrote:

[kde-community] Github discussion

2015-09-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Dear KDE Community, This recent controversy has raised a lot of thoughts, ideas, feelings and even some anger for some people. That seems natural to me, as it has brought some of our shared values into conflict with one another. One thing is clear though; we are all passionate about spreading our

Re: [kde-community] Official KDE mirror on github in the light of the KDE manifesto

2015-09-24 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Thank you, Martin. Snipping all but your final, awesome, question: On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: ::snip good post:: > Another approach would be: How can KDE infrastructure evolve into something > that makes contributing as easy or even easier than github.com? What n

Re: [kde-community] Can't login w/OpenID or register?

2015-10-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Jerrod Frost wrote: > I've been trying to login using my google account but am denied access and I > can't find a way to register to add content. > > I'm attempting to edit: > > https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Live_Images > > > I would like to add Sabayon Linux to

Re: [kde-community] videos Akademy-es

2015-11-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Agustín Benito wrote: > Hi, > > KDE has as general rule to attach the videos to the schedule of the > event. That is a very good strategy. It has a downside, they must be > downloaded. That is no big deal. The problem is finding them through > internet. It is not p

[kde-community] Crunch time for GCi tasks

2015-11-29 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, GCi opens for students on December 7th. By then, we need a minimum of 75 tasks in the webapp. Right now, we have 36. Please, please, please if you have a small task, or a series of small tasks that a high school student can do in one to 3 days, put it in the app. Remember, this can be

[kde-community] GCi start is beginning soon: Dec. 7

2015-11-30 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, Stephanie recently mentioned in an email to the admin for a org (Systers) new to GCi: "Student work must be reviewed in under 36 hours always with a goal of reviewing under 24 hours the majority of the time. That is a key concern for mentors (and org admins). Things happen a lot faste

Re: [kde-community] GCi start is beginning soon: Dec. 7

2015-12-01 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hey, On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:36 AM, Boudhayan Gupta wrote: > On 1 December 2015 at 08:46, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: >> As of right now, we have 44 tasks. That is about 130 fewer than >> Staphanie recommends. We've never fallen short before, and I believe >> t

Re: [kde-community] Sprint: Reorganize the wikis

2015-12-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
ce. Recently CERN has offered space in Geneva -- can we join in this sprint with WikitoLearn? Naturally this could fit into the Randa meetings too, but those are many months away now. Valorie > Cheers > Olivier > > > Le 05/12/2015 22:45, Valorie Zimmerman a écrit : >> &g

[kde-community] Updating list of Applications offered by the KDE community -- time sensitive

2015-12-06 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, Nicolas had the excellent idea to improve the Applications part of the front page of our site, https://www.kde.org. Many if not most of the screenshots are out-of-date, which gives an inaccurate view to the casual visitor about our applications. He wants to mentor GCi students to take

Re: [kde-community] Sprint: Reorganize the wikis

2015-12-07 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Olivier Churlaud wrote: > So I answer to all :) > > Le 07/12/2015 01:20, Valorie Zimmerman a écrit : >> >> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Olivier Churlaud >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I however woul

[kde-community] Google Code-In - Coding tasks needed!

2015-12-28 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, we have a bit less than one month to the end of GCi, January 25. We do have 71 claimable tasks, but very few coding tasks, and students are asking for these. If you have not yet mentored or created a task, and would like to dive in, please ask in #kde-soc on IRC if you need help, or o

[kde-community] Google Summer of Code Ideas needed now

2016-02-05 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Org applications open on 8 February, so we need to get moving on this. Unfortunately, our wikis are close for editing right now, because of two spam attacks. Until they are open again, we have a Google Doc. Google Summer of Code 2016 Ideas page is here: https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2016/Ideas .

Re: [kde-community] Should we allow non-KDE projects to participate in GSoC under KDE?

2016-02-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Martin Klapetek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Ingo Klöcker wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 03 February 2016 14:58:54 Martin Klapetek wrote: >> > So I'd like to have this cleared - does the community agree to >> > have non-KDE projects, those that do not follo

Re: [kde-community] Distribution outreach program: Where do we go from here?

2016-02-13 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 1:57 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi everyone, > now with neon having been announced, and some members of some distributions > fearing that their distribution might become a "second-class citizen" for KDE > software due to the less direct communication with KDE, I think tha

[kde-community] GSoC Application Deadline is Feb. 19! Get your ideas in ASAP

2016-02-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
We like to make the application at least one day early, and our ideas page is part of what supports our application. Please make our position strong, and set yourself up to get a great student to mentor this summer! For now, Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k1ESLkh6-0Hz4rGR02yEasjj

Re: [kde-community] GSoC Application Deadline is Feb. 19! Get your ideas in ASAP

2016-02-14 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Ooops, I used the GCi ideas page, rather than GSoC: https://community.kde.org/GoogleCodeIn/2016/Ideas On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > We like to make the application at least one day early, and our ideas > page is part of what supports our application. Please ma

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

2016-02-16 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Lydia Pintscher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A bit less than two weeks ago we sent the first draft for the > community vision for KDE. We have gotten a lot of useful feedback and > have now put this into a second draft. It reads as follows: > "KDE creates technology f

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

2016-02-23 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Oooo, Steve! Thank you for capping off an excellent discussion. On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Ingo Klöcker wrote: > >> I had very similar thoughts when I read the above. I immediately thought >> "No, I don't want only all users of _our_ technology to enjoys freedom, >> e

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

2016-02-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Jos Poortvliet wrote: > >> On Wednesday, February 24, 2016 10:22:22 PM AMT Stephen Kelly wrote: >>> So for me, this is quite good: >>> >>> "A world in which everyone has control in their digital life" >>> >>> I think it is good for all of t

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

2016-02-29 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Just want to address this one point: On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Sunday, February 28, 2016 09:54:18 Stephen Kelly wrote: >> Alexander Neundorf wrote: > I think I disagree that freedom (I guess as in Free Software) is really a hard > requirement to achieve pers

[kde-community] KDE has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2016 mentor organization

2016-03-01 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Yesterday we got the email we'd been waiting for, beginning: "Congratulations! KDE has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2016 mentor organization. Please click here to visit your organization profile and start adding mentors." That last bit is new. If you plan to mentor, please 1. Message

Re: [kde-community] KDE has been selected as a Google Summer of Code 2016 mentor organization

2016-03-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Just as a reminder On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: > Yesterday we got the email we'd been waiting for, beginning: > "Congratulations! KDE has been selected as a Google Summer of Code > 2016 mentor organization. > > Please click here to visit

[kde-community] The wikis are open! Please login

2016-03-04 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, those who have needed the wikis urgently already know this, but it would be great if you occasional users would login and make sure that your accounts are in order. The team headed up by Ingo Malchow report that only a few people have logged in -- and we need to work out any kinks, soo

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

2016-03-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Samstag, 19. März 2016 21:52:09 CET Michael Brade wrote: >> Am 19.03.2016 um 21:30 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: >> > On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 22:53:03 David Jarvie wrote: >> > ... >> > >> >> This may read a bit better, although it does

Re: [kde-community] KDE store sprint

2016-04-12 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Jens Reuterberg wrote: > I will considering the proposed date also love to sit remotely and join in. > There is a FOSS conferance here in Gothenburg then and I am trying to wave the > KDE flag high there (since there are a ton of companies going). > > > (This is wh

Re: [kde-community] digikam-devel moderator needed

2016-04-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Martin Klapetek wrote: > Hey, > > I've been the moderator for digikam-devel for the past couple years. > My time is now limited and I'd like to pass this responsibility on. > > Nobody from digiKam stepped up, so this is moreless just an fyi. > If anybody would like

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

2016-08-08 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On 01.08.2016 11:20, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> >> Thank you for doing this. >> >> I am baffled by the extreme coherence between answers of contributors and >> of >> users. Seems like a perfect match. > > Indeed, I was equally surprised by

Re: Official "Going to Akademy" banner by Ivan Čukić

2016-08-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
I used it in my blog post, but it's broken and I don't know why. I see others who used it on the Planet also broken. Thoughts? Valorie link: http://linuxgrandma.blogspot.com/2016/08/wee-akademy-and-qtcon-approaching.html On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:07 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > Dear commun

Re: Official "Going to Akademy" banner by Ivan Čukić

2016-08-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:25 PM, Bhushan Shah wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Valorie Zimmerman > wrote: >> I used it in my blog post, but it's broken and I don't know why. I see >> others who used it on the Planet also broken. Thoughts? >&g

Re: Official "Going to Akademy" banner by Ivan Čukić

2016-08-18 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Ivan Čukić wrote: > I see it in your post as well as Riddell's, both in Firefox and Chromium. > > Ivan As long as others can see it, I'm happy! Thank you so much for creating the image, Ivan. It is lovely. See y'all soon, Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez

Mentoring, student programs coming up

2016-09-20 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hi folks, I have no announcements, but was thinking about our Season of KDE and how we can enlarge and improve it. I believe we've been thinking of it too much like GSoC, when it can be so much more. For instance, I've seen a few announcements from maintainers wanting to step back from a large pie

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

2016-09-27 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 2:06 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Wednesday 21 September 2016 21:53:46 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: >> On 12.09.2016 18:18, Alexander Neundorf wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Thursday 01 September 2016 16:54:32 Lydia Pintscher wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Ingo

Season of KDE -- please add your ideas

2016-10-09 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello developers, Do you have a project in mind which will help KDE? Season of KDE might be for you. KDE Student Programs has announced the 2016-2017 Season of KDE for those who want to participate in mentored projects which enhance KDE in some way. Projects from past Seasons of KDE include new

Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] Announcing Google Summer of Code 2017 and Google Code-in 2016

2016-10-11 Thread Valorie Zimmerman
Hello folks, it is time to start thinking of tasks you would like students to do this fall-winter. Remember, these tasks are for teens who are dealing with schoolwork and teen life, so they need to be small enough to be done within a day or two. In addition, we always need "beginner" tasks, for ki

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