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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On 2017 M08 29, Tue 18:12:55 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 4:34 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer
> 
> <thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > here is my proposal for a Big Hairy Audacious Goal:
> > Making KDE software the #1 choice for science and academia
> > 
> > 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 that, for
> > their sake and ours.
> > 
> > See all the details here: https://phabricator.kde.org/T6895
> > 
> > Feedback and contributions very welcome!
> > Cheers,
> > Thomas
> 
> Very cool idea, Thomas. I think Wikitolearn is a natural part of KDE
> leadership here, and we could perhaps partner with
> http://openscience.org/ - some of whom got their beginning in KDE. In
> addition, while searching for Open Science, I saw https://osf.io/,
> which is Open Science Framework: A scholarly commons to connect the
...

Not to forget Kitware, which is strong in Open Science and research.

Alex