What could be helpful to get contributor training on?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:40:00 CET Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> Dear KDE community,
> With the $200k donation from the Pineapple Fund [1], 

The footnote is missing from your mail.

> we have some money
> available which we can invest in KDE’s future. We are currently thinking
> about what to best invest in, and one of the ideas was to pay for
> professional training in some skills for contributors. 

Guess I missed that in the discussion on the KDE e.V. mailing list? Was this 
discussed somewhere else? In fact, I don't remember having seen "professional 
training in some skills" being discussed at all... 

> For that, we’d like
> to know which skills would be most useful for us to have in order to take
> KDE further?

And who are these "we"?

> This can be soft or hard skills, but it would probably make sense to train
> things which we don’t already learn naturally from our collaboration
> anyway.
> 
> So, what do you think?

That I'm once again feeling totally out of touch, because your mail doesn't 
seem at all to reflect anything that I've seen up to now.


> Thank you in advance for your input,
> Thomas


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