Mario Fux
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My Wishion of KDE – Prelude
Now or never – that’s what I thought yesterday when I wrote the notes for this blog post down. Although it might be a bit too dramatic. Yesterday night frustrated me and even made me angry about things going on in KDE. And thus I think and thought it’s finally time to start my blog series. Over the next weeks I’d like to write a blog series with the title My Wishion of KDE. Over the last two years I collected many thoughts and notes and with this blog post I’ll put some more pressure on myself to finally arrange these notes and ideas and finish the blog posts and publish them.
And I want to do this as well because most of the time I prefer to improve things and progress them, fix them, do the work rather than just rant and criticize (destructively, constructive criticism is great and important) and it’s Free Software in its core as well: just do it (others might or will follow).
There are quite some things failing inside KDE but I heard there was quite some positive energy this year at Akademy and we just finished/ended the longest Randa Meetings yet and although these meetings were for me quite exhausting they were another great success and almost the size of half of Akademy this year. Just compare the group pictures. And I met again some great people, new and old, young and old, with great ideas, a lot of energy and willingness to put in some energy and with the incubator projects I sponsor there was and is even more enthusiasm coming to KDE.
So this is the introduction or first part of my series about my Wishion of KDE. With this word creation I’d like to underline the ambiguity of my wishes for KDE on one side and a vision for KDE on the other.
The herewith starting or preluding blog series will have four parts. And the following questions will guide these single blog posts:
- Where are we now? What is KDE currently?
- Where and how do I see KDE in the future and the coming years? And where do I think KDE should go?
- What should we do and change to reach this future?
- How could we do this and what to achieve this wishion? What could I offer and how could you support me in this?
As I wrote this is my Wishion and thus just MHO (my humble opinion). Nonetheless I think that with the work I did in KDE, in several areas and for quite some time I’ve got a good overview and insight and thus think my Wishion might be of some interest for other people too.
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Read you soon. At least next week.
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