Re: New Long Term Goal

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 1:32 PM Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Promoers,
>
> Today we added a new Long Term Goal to our list at
>
> https://community.kde.org/Promo%27s_Long_Term_Goals
>
> The goal reads:
>
> """
> Help establish a working durable and stable relationships with large, long-
> standing, FLOSS-friendly organisations, such as Mozilla, Wikipedia, Apache,
> Blender, the Document Foundation, etc. Over the next 5 years we want to help
> increase by ten the number of organisations that we work closely with and,
> preferably have them join the advisory board. This will help us have an even
> better integration of popular software (such as Firefox, Blender 3D,
> LibreOffice, etc.) with Plasma, and increment the number of developers
> supporting Plasma and KDE-related applications and technologies outside our
> community. This will not only help increase the number of contributors to our
> project, but also offer a better and more coherent experience to our users. We
> will carry out this goal by leveraging our connections, talking directly to
> people we already know within each project, inviting them to joint activities
> (events and sprints), inviting them to become part of the Advisory Board, and
> in general listening and solving their concerns they have with regard to
> working upstream with us.
> """
>
> We have a similar goal for distributions, but nothing for non-distro, but
> FLOSS-related communities, so I think this covers a hole.
>
> If you think otherwise, or think this should be amended please say so here, in
> the Telegram/Matrix/IRC group/room, or commenting on the "Discussion" page of
> the Wiki entry.

Hey :)

That sounds good! Given that it has implications way beyond promo it'd
be good to take this to the community mailinglist.


Cheers
Lydia

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