Notices by Alan Pope ✅ 🍺 🐧 🐱 (popey@mastodon.social), page 9

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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Putting it all together

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@irina Just counted. I have 34 pinned tabs! I think I have a problem!

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? :)

A little light reading in the bath this evening.
Seriously, these people do amazing work. Check it out, the pdf is on their website. https://en.tjwg.org

The @kdecommunity Akademy delegates get a choice of lanyard. One lets other people know they don't want to be photographed. Not seen this at many events.

@ted I think he has slaves/children and seems to really enjoy it.

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@ohyran hahahaha! :D

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@kev probably easier to dumb the device down by taking the SIM out. That way you will be less inclined to use it while out, bit can still use it as a camera, and if you need it at home on WiFi, you can.