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=== Proposal of a vision === | === Proposal of a vision === | ||
KDE is | KDE is a friendly, international community of programmers, artists, designers, writers, creators who collaborate in developing libre software for anyone to use freely and for the good of mankind. We develop in the open, and value transparency. We have an open commit policy, and shared ownership of the codebase and all other assets. | ||
We consider our users to be paramount, and call on them to help us test, translate, document as we develop. We value their privacy and always give them control over their own identity and digital assets. Our users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Our software uses latest encryption algorithms, and comes without any backdoors, hidden monitoring, or data collection. We want enable end-users to manage their "digital life" using free software no matter which operating system or device. Consistency and integration between applications is reached by following common guidelines and using common technologies, such as Qt. We release with Free Software licenses which allow commercial use. | |||
We strive to make our creative ecosystem as free and open as our software while remaining pragmatic. This has led us to establish the KDE Free Qt Foundation, and participate as an Associate Organization of the FSF Europe, an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative and a member of the Open Invention Network community of licensees. | |||
* A first proposal of an open and inclusive vision. Comments, editing, adding more sentences to elaborate on that welcome (Clemens Toennies) | * A first proposal of an open and inclusive vision. Comments, editing, adding more sentences to elaborate on that welcome (Clemens Toennies) | ||
* added and moved around a bit (Valorie Zimmerman) | * added and moved around a bit (Valorie Zimmerman) now added much from the "A" proposal and our strengths from the google doc from Akademy | ||
Revision as of 00:56, 17 January 2016
What do we want KDE to be?
Proposal of a vision
KDE is a friendly, international community of programmers, artists, designers, writers, creators who collaborate in developing libre software for anyone to use freely and for the good of mankind. We develop in the open, and value transparency. We have an open commit policy, and shared ownership of the codebase and all other assets.
We consider our users to be paramount, and call on them to help us test, translate, document as we develop. We value their privacy and always give them control over their own identity and digital assets. Our users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Our software uses latest encryption algorithms, and comes without any backdoors, hidden monitoring, or data collection. We want enable end-users to manage their "digital life" using free software no matter which operating system or device. Consistency and integration between applications is reached by following common guidelines and using common technologies, such as Qt. We release with Free Software licenses which allow commercial use.
We strive to make our creative ecosystem as free and open as our software while remaining pragmatic. This has led us to establish the KDE Free Qt Foundation, and participate as an Associate Organization of the FSF Europe, an affiliate of the Open Source Initiative and a member of the Open Invention Network community of licensees.
- A first proposal of an open and inclusive vision. Comments, editing, adding more sentences to elaborate on that welcome (Clemens Toennies)
- added and moved around a bit (Valorie Zimmerman) now added much from the "A" proposal and our strengths from the google doc from Akademy