KDE Goals - Last Call For Submissions
Last chance to submit your KDE Goals proposal
The call for submissions for the next KDE Goals cycle closes tomorrow, August 8.
As of the time of writing we've received nineteen proposals, covering a variety of topics like enterprise, gaming, personal well-being, documentation, accessibility, semantic desktops, color management, design, user experience, mobile and more.
Current proposals (by order of submission):
- Better documentation
- Design System for Plasma 1st-Party Styling
- Accessibility in KDE
- KDE for Enterprise and Deployments
- Give more love to little-loved but important KDE apps
- KDE Linux — Pillar of KDE
- Sandbox all the things!
- Improve UX of customization and theming process with 3rd-party content
- KDE Kares
- Improve GUI configuration UX by expanding system settings
- Gaming as a first-class workload
- Plasma: From Window Management to Workflow Management
- Improve color management and HDR support
- Make Plasma smart
- Advanced configuration features hidden from GUI
- Scripting and effect capabilities: Need for review in Get New Stuff
- Seamless Input Accessibility (Onscreen Keyboard, Emoji & Clipboard)
- Language/toolkit-agnostic development
- Prepare Plasma Mobile for Daily Drivability
Join in
If any of the proposals above spark your interest, then by all means join the effort as a co-champion or contributor. And if you don't feel inspired by any, then there is still time to submit your own and champion a new KDE Goal.
Remember that you do not have to be a developer to participate. Read the selection process carefully before you send your proposal. If you have any doubts, join our Matrix room or create a topic at the KDE forum.
What's Next?
Once the submission period is over, we'll move into the refinement phase, where champions and the community work together to polish their proposals and finalize them so they're elligible for voting.
Timeline:
- Call for submissions - June 19 to August 8
- Refinement of proposals - August 9 to August 27
- Voting period - August 28 to September 11
- Tallying & preparation - September 12 to September 18
- Announcement at Akademy - September 19