KDE in 2016: Boring for good!

[Bernhard Reiter]

Dear Sebastian, Dan, Riccardo, Stefan, Jos, Artur and Frank!

Thanks for starting the K16 initiative!
Yes, it sounds exciting, I would love to participate and attend the meeting.
At this time of the year it catches me in a period where I lack time to sit 
down and draft something elaborate, I did a quick sketch today, see below.
I might make it on a number of weekends in 2011. I need to know more 
parameters to suggest a good one.

My vision for KDE in 2010 is that it will be boring for good!
Boring because in order to gain a lot more users the products will be stable 
and fullfiling people's needs. This is hard work, just think of a basic need
like eating, a fundamental human need. A lot of boring processes have to 
happen until even a master restaurant will serve their clients.

This need professionals, thus KDE will have solved the challenge of building 
up a financial ecosystem arounds its initiative. Several organisations, like 
companies and charities will get paid by users or their bosses to maintain 
and develop the code and everything else.
At the same time as the products and components grow successful, they are in 
danger to not be noticed anymore, maybe vanish within handset computing, 
wearables, embedded systems, as library . But the KDE community will stick 
together as base for a Free Software computing with a twist, a place of 
experiments for innovation where volunteers play a key role. This is a 
tension test to survive.

As the professionals will take care of much of the boring work to make
it stable, the way is cleared to keep KDE exciting for its volunteers,
learners and visionaries. So it's for good!

See my pitch on the attached virtual piece of paper to which my above text can 
be optinonally printed on a sticky note and attached, in order to make it on 
the whiteboard.

Best Regards,
Bernhard

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Geschäftsführer Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner
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