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1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 10:29:37 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

   In a talk titled "Konquering the World" - "Or, how we make KDE software irresistible on the desktop in 7 steps" by Nate Graham. This should be good! :D. I can't wait to find out what those steps are. Any guesses? :)

   1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 11:01:27 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

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      Step 1: Improve the new user contribution process
      Problem - not enough resources
      Ideas:
      - Reduce difficulyty of setting up a development environment
      - Improve contributor documentation
      - Increase promotion and outreach efforts
      - Avoid insulting our users; be positive!
      Outcome:
      - More manpower
      - People's pet bugs get fixed
      - Overall rises broadly
      - A sense of forward momentum

      1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 11:01:46 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

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         Step 2: Fix longstanding issues
         Problem: longstanding issues impede users and damage our reputation
         Ideas: Temporarily focus our resources on:
         - Discover
         - Ballo file indexer
         - Samba
         - nVidia
         - libinput
         - multi-screen support
         Outcomes:
         - More frequently-requested features
         - Greatwer competitiveness
         - Replace bad press with good press

         1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 11:01:58 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

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            Step 3: Polish the user interface
            Problem: Lack of polish
            Ideas:
            - Fixing little bugs
            - System settings usability
            - Increasing consistency across apps and plasma
            - Streamlining awkward workflows
            Outcomes:
            - Attract dissatisfied users from other platforms
            - KDE Software becomes known for its high usability

            1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 11:02:11 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

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               Step 4: Work with distro partners
               Problem: Not enough distros ship out software!
               Ideas:
               - Increase promotion efforts
               - Reach out to distros, especiallyu those that ship unmaintainable forks of GNOME and GTK-based software
               Outcomes:
               - KDE plasma used by default on more distros
               - More of the best KDE software shipping on distros

               1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 11:02:23 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

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                  Step 5: Work with hardware partners
                  Problem: Not enough products ship distros with out software!
                  Ideas:
                  - Pitch KDE software to vendors who already ship hardware with a Linux OS pre-installed
                  - Reach out to vendors of low-cost hardware
                  Outcome:
                  - More and more computer users have the option to get KDE Plasma and apps by default with their new hardware

                  1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 11:02:33 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

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                     Step 6: Improve the PIM suite
                     Problem: KDE PIM suite not yet competitive for enterprise use
                     Ideas:
                     - Agressively focus efforts on improving the backend
                     - Polish the user interface on the frontend
                     - Improve migration and upgrade use cases, and AD compatibility
                     - Then, encourage more KDE distros to ship it by default
                     Outcome:
                     - The KDE PIM suite becomes seen as a serious alternative to proprietary alternatives for business use

                     1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 11:02:46 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

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                        Step 7 Improve LibreOffice
                        Problem: LibreOffice is not a good enough replacement for MS Office
                        Ideas:
                        - Encourage KDE contributors and developers to devote a bit of their time to LibreOffice
                        - Push for better Plasma compatibility
                        Outcome:
                        - LibreOffice becomes a better competitor because it:
                        ... Doesn't look and feel alien on KDE Plasma
                        ... Has better usability
                        ... Has improved compatibility with MS Office Documents

                        1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 11:02:59 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

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                           Putting it all together

                           * Stable and reliable
                           * Full of user-friendly features
                           * PIM suite performs well in a business environment
                           * Pre-installed on hardware

                           1. Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 11:03:13 EDT Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱

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                              Are we there yet?

                              New contributor friendlyness goal: Good progress
                              Usability & productivity goal: Good progress
                              Distro and vendor partnerships: Ongoing
                              PIM Improvements: Ongoing
                              Libreoffice: TBD

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