[kde-community] Your Akademy take-away?

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
> Hey folks :)
>
> What are the most important things you took away from this year's Akademy?
>
> Mine are:
> * We are an amazing community that really pulls together when needed.
> Carrying someone up all the way to the castle because they can't walk
> there? Done deal. Big <3 for that. Let's never lose that!
> * We need to pay a lot more attention to the social implications of
> changes we make to the infrastructure our community runs on.
> Infrastructure changes can have unintended consequences that we need
> to monitor more closely.
>
>
> Cheers
> Lydia

I wanted to wait for the jetlag to go away before answering.

My takeaway was the amazing beauty of our community. Really people,
you have the most kind and giving hearts, and Lydia's story is just
one example. The other thing I take away is the intelligence, energy
and creativity of KDE people.

Many of us have experienced a bit of a pause in our community growth,
but rather than discouragement, I see curiosity about the causes, and
a determination to regain our former health and vigor. I saw no
finger-pointing, no blame-casting, but instead lots of optimism and
willingness to work.

I love it, and those memories are worth a week of jetlag!

Valorie
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