Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development

[r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org]

@kde any chance we see some of that go to online drives (o365/google)?

@sovtechfund

[sovtechfund@mastodon.social]

@kde We are very much looking forward to following the progress on your work!

[karolherbst@chaos.social]

@sovtechfund @kde We (as in Freedesktop) should probably also apply for funding at some point.

I was thinking about some cross Desktop accessibility work could fit the bill.

Or trying to get off gitlab/rework our CI infrastructure.

But.. I don't think anybody of us has any experience with applying for grants in general, so it's a bit scary.

[kde@floss.social]

@r3pek @sovtechfund

No. Investing time, resources and money into supporting closed source platforms controlled by big tech enterprises is in direct opposition with the goals of digital sovereignty.

[r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org]

@kde well... i do agree with that statement as is. but the world isn't just black and white

@sovtechfund

[kde@floss.social]

@r3pek @sovtechfund

Look at the name of the organization doing the investing, please.

[arkades@sciences.social]

@kde @sovtechfund great news! As tax money is reallocated here, I'd expect more transparency relating architectural decision making in conjunction with infrastructure metabolism, hardware ownership, network topology, operational locality. This also relates to release cycles: for example Rolling Immutable + Debug Nudging = Create Dev Minijobs.
KDE Eco promise hopefully goes beyond end user hardware, as I'd consider it green washing.

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@kde @sovtechfund awesome!

[aks@scalie.zone]

@karolherbst @sovtechfund @kde im sure someone from kde side is willing to help, we're all in this together after all

[eskealler@mastodon.social]

@r3pek @kde @sovtechfund Try Nextcloud if you miss clouddrives, it functions impeccably! IMO much better control than onedrive with comes to .nextcloudingore

[itsmealexander@mastodon.social]

@kde @sovtechfund really great news!

[r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org]

@eskealler I do use it but even that one needs some love (not the NC client, the integration)

@kde @sovtechfund

[eskealler@mastodon.social]

@r3pek @kde @sovtechfund And by integration you mean document collaboration? That the only feature I am missing from o365, not that it was working great there...

[kde@floss.social]

@r3pek @eskealler @sovtechfund

Stuff like NC will be covered.

To be clear, it does not mean KDE will not make efforts to support people using Google's and MS's services, just that this will not be covered by the current investment.

[r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org]

@eskealler no. was more of "Drives being available on Dolphin" for example. It's possible to configure the online accounts, but the "FS integration" kinda lacks.

@kde @sovtechfund

[r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org]

@kde Yeah of course. I kinda assumed that the NC (example) would be included that's why I asked about the other ones. (the grey area that is kinda common between all)

@eskealler @sovtechfund

[eskealler@mastodon.social]

@r3pek @kde @sovtechfund Drives being available on Dolphin... You mean the specific funtionality of having nextcloud show as a mounted drive, not mirroring files to your local drive?

[r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org]

@eskealler yep. it probably works (because it shows there), but even with an online account setup it still asks me for a password on dolphin (and i don't wanna give it an App Password)

@kde @sovtechfund

[eskealler@mastodon.social]

@r3pek @kde @sovtechfund Having read up on your issue now I think I get it! To paraphrase your request: if KDE get this grant money to fix core infrastructure, please use some of it to rewrite the Online Accounts system so Dolphin can finally mount Nextcloud drives as smoothly as GNOME does. I'm not deep into it but something like the work done by Nicholas Fella https://invent.kde.org/system/konlineaccounts?

[retrimental@mastodon.social]

@kde @sovtechfund
I don't use KDE, but good on you. Make your users proud