KDE Goals – A New Cycle Begins

Mid-august we had to vote on new KDE goals (I suppose I received the invitation to vote because I contributed a few bugfixes and features to some KDE projects). We had to chose and sort by priority six goals among these choices:

— Enhancing control and automation: integrate KDE Plasma (and apps) with Smart Home Ecosystems

— Freedom through Better Data and Workflow Organization and Management

— KDE Needs You! - Formalise and boost KDE's processes for recruiting active contributors

— KDE-based Text Snippet Expansion

— Sandbox all the things!

— Plasma - A Beacon for Open Design

— Refining and Enriching KDE: Empowering Users with Convenient and Intuitive Features

— Streamlined Application Development Experience

— Unify the Plasma experience

— We care about your Input

I'm quite glad that the three goals which won the vote and thus are being prioritized are the "meta" goals. I see those as strategic investments that will ensure the other goals can then be accomplished, in the same vein as the recent news that KDE will starting asking for donations directly in Plasma through a once-a-year notification [1]. It's great that KDE is taking care of KDE itself so that it will be able to take an even better care of all the projects that it hosts (starting with the Plasma desktop environment, but not only).

[1] https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/28/asking-for-donations-i...