KDE in 2016: Boring for good!

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:24:06 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

Now that is a vision. He doesn't seem to have any clear ideas (yet?) on how to 
get there, but the direction is an interesting one. Me likes.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 198 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/k16/attachments/20101222/c808a858/attachment.sig