Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Privacy Software

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Mon Aug 21 20:58:32 BST 2017


On 2017 M08 18, Fri 18:14:22 CEST Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I spent some time thinking and working on a proposal for the big hairy
> audacious goal (1), the goal that the KDE community sets for itself to
> strive for in the next five years. (Context: re-read the thread started
> by Kevin with the subject "Proposal: Have the Community Set Ambitious
> Goals for Itself".
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hairy_Audacious_Goal
> 
> I'll try to keep this email short, but I guess I won't be able to,
> given scope, importance, complexity and the general mess in my head
> regarding this topic.
> 
> What I wanted to do...
> 
> I wanted to write a goal that is snappy to read, easy to understand,
> engaging, worthwhile and measurable. What I came up with so far is:
> 
> "In 5 years, KDE software enables and promotes privacy"

 ... does that kind of imply that we need to offer a range of applications 
which cover the most privacy-sensitive topics, e.g. a competetive web browser 
?

Alex




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