Goal: Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

> On 30. Aug 2017, at 07:21, Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> Il giorno Wed, 30 Aug 2017 01:34:37 +0200
> Thomas Pfeiffer <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org> ha
> scritto:
> 
>> I think that here is a lot of yet-untapped potential for the usage of
>> KDE products in the research and academic sector, and we should fix
> 
> Interesting. I've been using (and having colleague using ;)KDE software
> for a while in a small research no profit.

Cool!

> A question arises: is this
> aimed at technical fields like CS and the like, or all research in
> general?

Establishing our software in the technical (or I’d “hard sciences” in general, because all scientists nowadays need some programming knowledge) is certainly most effective for recruiting code contributors, but I would certainly not restrict the effort to them.
WikiToLearn, for example, is useful for all fields, and so is Kile (though there are certainly fields where TeX is not as common as in the more technical fields). And RKward is useful for all social sciences.

And I think there are enough benefits to establishing ourselves in all fields of research to make it worthwhile.

> 
> Depending on the field, things may be slightly different wrt
> requirements.
> 
True.