KDE in 2016: Boring for good!

[Frank Karlitschek]

A very nice proposal Bernhard.

Thanks a lot :-)

Cheers
Frank


On 22.12.2010, at 17:24, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> 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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