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

[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

[r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org]

@eskealler yep didn't even knew there was a rewrite. Maybe that would bring more plug-ins/integrations (you know, as much as I don't like o365/drive, enterprise entities do used them, but that's another conversation on itself)

@kde @sovtechfund

[eskealler@mastodon.social]

@r3pek @kde @sovtechfund

I will try it out, not having MS support at the moment fine by me. I think the argument for MS support is there, specifically for allowing migration.

[r3pek@mastodon.r3pek.org]

@eskealler I think that that it's biggest "issue". We all want to migrate to open standards and all, but the data still lives on the "old" places (again, specially on the enterprise world)

@kde @sovtechfund

[joergba@mastodon.social]

@kde @sovtechfund Next Time 1 Mio €.

[hidikem@piaille.fr]

@kde @sovtechfund hope you invest in EU infrastructure and not use it like other to pay up more US hyperscaler (i know you already use EU server i just hope more of them and no Fastly / other non EU cdn (for eu user of course).

[blort@social.tchncs.de]

@kde @sovtechfund

Awesome! All of it is good and useful. I'll admit though that the one that's sexiest to me is the KDE Linux stuff (writing from that venerable distro on my laptop right now Fund #KDELinux