research question

2014-11-20 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi all, A research question for you: how common is 'episodic volunteering', that is, how often do people do short, one-off or irregular contributions, as opposed to more long-term contributions, in your project? Episodic volunteers are volunteers who choose short-term volunteering assignments

Re: Talks @Akademy

2014-05-23 Thread Jos Poortvliet
at 5:25 AM, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I notice it is still possible to send in proposals for Akademy 2014. While we are past the deadline (last Sunday) I suggest you use this opportunity to sneak your stuff in while you still can ;-) Remember, we're largely

Talks @Akademy

2014-05-20 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi all, I notice it is still possible to send in proposals for Akademy 2014. While we are past the deadline (last Sunday) I suggest you use this opportunity to sneak your stuff in while you still can ;-) Remember, we're largely looking for two kinds of sessions: in depth technology/training

Fwd: URGENT: LinuxTag

2014-04-21 Thread Jos Poortvliet
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: URGENT: LinuxTag Date: Monday 21 April 2014, 12:58:48 From: Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com To: informing about and discussing non-technical community topics kde- commun...@kde.org Hi all, Again the question about LinuxTag 2014 (May 8

Re: Freedesktop summit 2014

2014-04-19 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 17 April 2014 23:59:48 Albert Astals Cid wrote: El Dijous, 17 d'abril de 2014, a les 20:17:38, David Faure va escriure: I represented KDE again this year at the freedesktop summit in Nuremberg. Please find our report below. Awesome work as always David, let us know how we can

Re: Freedesktop summit 2014

2014-04-19 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Saturday 19 April 2014 12:30:01 Jos Poortvliet wrote: On Thursday 17 April 2014 23:59:48 Albert Astals Cid wrote: El Dijous, 17 d'abril de 2014, a les 20:17:38, David Faure va escriure: I represented KDE again this year at the freedesktop summit in Nuremberg. Please find our report

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-10 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Saturday 08 March 2014 12:47:38 GEO wrote: On Friday 07 March 2014 20:17:16 Christoph Feck wrote: In other words, let us ask the are we there yet? question again for KDEPIM, and invite users to report thing that still might need to be addressed. If you ask me, KDEPIM offers a stable

Re: What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-09 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 07 March 2014 20:17:16 Christoph Feck wrote: On Friday 07 March 2014 11:29:52 Jos Poortvliet wrote: Hi, The first beta of our applications and platform 4.13 is out. There are some major changes, the introduction of Baloo being first and foremost among them. Yes, including

What to test for 4.13?

2014-03-07 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Hi, The first beta of our applications and platform 4.13 is out. There are some major changes, the introduction of Baloo being first and foremost among them. But there is more. We (the promo team) would like to write an article to ask our community to help test this release and we'd appreciate

Re: Changing the KDE Edu module maintainer

2014-02-22 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 20 February 2014 15:25:22 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote: Hi, I have been the assigned KDE Edu module maintainer for the past years but due to family life (aging parents, husband being often away for his work, kids,…) I have not been active in the past 2 years and things will be very

Re: Moving Baloo forward

2014-01-17 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday 17 January 2014 17:50:38 Vishesh Handa wrote: Hey Albert Thanks for sending this email. On Friday 17 January 2014 01:47:17 Albert Astals Cid wrote: Hi guys, seems we have reached a kind of impasse regarding what to do with Baloo and Nepomuk. Since the 4.13 freeze is coming

Re: Nepomuk in 4.13 and beyond

2013-12-20 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Thursday 19 December 2013 09:14:42 Till Adam wrote: On Thursday, December 19, 2013 02:27:43 AM Mark Gaiser wrote: On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Jos Poortvliet jospoortvl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 17 December 2013 12:22:26 Todd wrote: On Dec 12, 2013 6:36 PM, Vishesh Handa

Re: Nepomuk in 4.13 and beyond

2013-12-18 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 17 December 2013 12:22:26 Todd wrote: On Dec 12, 2013 6:36 PM, Vishesh Handa m...@vhanda.in wrote: i’ll say it again here so that it is at least on record: i really disagree with renaming Nepomuk. call it Nepomuk 2 or whatever, but tossing aside name recognition and years

Re: [kde-community] Downtime for some services

2013-09-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Sep 6, 2013 8:22 AM, Sebastian Kügler se...@kde.org wrote: Hi Ben, On Friday, September 06, 2013 23:24:34 Ben Cooksley wrote: Apologies for the inconvenience. Thanks for your (and the rest of the sysadmin team's) continuous efforts to keep our infrastructure going, so that we can be

announcement

2013-08-03 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Heya all, We're working on the announcement text here: https://notes.kde.org/p/release4.11 Feel free to add/correct stuff ;-) Hugs, Jos signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Usability Workshops

2013-07-13 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Friday, July 12, 2013 10:53:32 Jos Poortvliet wrote: Heya folk! One of our resident usability experts, Björn Balazs, will team up with yours truly to host a Usability Workshop on Monday at Akademy, provided we can find people interested in them. We will host a usability workshop

Usability Workshops

2013-07-12 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Heya folk! One of our resident usability experts, Björn Balazs, will team up with yours truly to host a Usability Workshop on Monday at Akademy, provided we can find people interested in them. The plan will be more or less as follows: * We center the session around one or a small number of

Think about the upcoming release promo - please ensure feature plan is updated

2012-12-11 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Title says it all. Please ensure http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.10_Feature_Plan is up to date. Also, the blogs about what's new in XXX for 4.10 are absolutely awesome for us. Aurelien, Martin, Frank, thank you very much. And everyone else: an overview blog of the biggest changes in

Re: Possible ferris-kio hackfest at opensuse conference in October?

2012-09-13 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Saturday, September 01, 2012 14:46:30 Ben Martin wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for an initial discussion... It has been mentioned that I might like to try to organize a one day hackfest in Prague in October [1] with the aim of trying to either make libferris work

as usual...

2012-07-20 Thread Jos Poortvliet
Please, PLEASE make the feature list as complete as possible: http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.9_Feature_Plan It is an immense help in writing the announcement of 4.9! /the promoteers signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Re: [Kde-pim] Contact Aggregation [was: KDE Telepathy on its way to Extragear]

2012-02-06 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Sunday, January 08, 2012 09:46:37 Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote: snip stuff from aeons ago Heya, Ladies and gents - the reminder I promised to send: this weekend there will be a KDE PIM sprint in Osnabruck. Lets have a Telepath there to finish the contact aggregation discussion... BTW fun

Re: Formal complaint concerning the use of the name System Settings by GNOME

2011-07-27 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On 2011-07-23 Matthias wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 22 July 2011 17:17, Ben Cooksley bcooks...@kde.org wrote: To be more specific about the problem, installing kde-workspace to a GNOME installation results in 2 indistinguishable apps