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The KDE community has 3 goals it is currently focusing its effort on.
KDE sets goals that help the community at large to focus on to improve upon over the next few years. The initiative began in 2018, and new sets of goals are selected every few years.


== Top-notch usability and productivity for basic software ==
=== Current goals ===
KDE software is used by busy and productive people with goals in mind and problems to solve. With that in mind, we we strive to make KDE software present powerful and advanced features in a polished and easy-to-use manner. We should also use sensible default settings suitable for typical users and common workflows. And finally, we should focus on those common workflows to ensure that they are as usable and streamlined as possible.
These goals were announced at Akademy 2024.
* [https://phabricator.kde.org/T17396 Streamlined Application Development Experience]
* [[Goals/Input|We care about your Input]]
* [https://phabricator.kde.org/T17439 KDE Needs You! 🫵 - Formalize and boost KDE's processes for recruiting active contributors]


More details about the goal: https://phabricator.kde.org/T6831
=== Previous goals ===
This is an archive of previous year's goals. While these are old goals, they are still considered as important areas to work on in the community.


== Privacy Software ==
==== 2022-2024 ====
More details about the goal: https://phabricator.kde.org/T7050
* [[Goals/KDE For All|KDE For All: Boosting Accessibility]]
* [[Goals/Sustainable Software|Sustainable Software]]
* [[Goals/Automate and systematize internal processes|Automate and Systematize Internal Processes]]


== Streamlined onboarding of new contributors ==
==== 2020-2022 ====
To maintain KDE's community and projects healthy and growing into the future we need to ensure that we continuously attract new contributors and get more people involved.
* [[Goals/Consistency|Consistency]]
The aim of this initiative is to find ways to help new contributors not only to make their first contributions,  but also feel comfortable with the community and its procedures, stay engaged for longer periods, connect with fellow contributors and work their way into becoming dedicated contributors to the projects of their interest.
* [[Goals/All about the Apps|All about the Apps]]
* [[Goals/Wayland|Wayland]]


Several projects are already making steps towards this goal. [https://nicolasfella.wordpress.com/2018/05/13/kde-connect-junior-jobs/ KDEConnect] and [https://mgallienkde.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/news-about-elisa/ Elisa] developers are identifying junior jobs that newcomers can take up as their first contributions. The Plasma Mobile team has gone even further, as it has prepared an [https://www.plasma-mobile.org/findyourway/ interactive guide] on getting involved and a comprehensive [https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Mobile/DevGuide tutorial] on setting up a development environment.
==== 2018-2020 ====
* [[Goals/Usability & Productivity|Top-notch usability and productivity for basic software]]
* [[Goals/Privacy Software|Privacy Software]]
* [[Goals/Streamlined onboarding of new contributors|Streamlined onboarding of new contributors]]


If you are attending Akademy 2018, KDE's annual community event, make sure to watch the related [https://conf.kde.org/en/Akademy2018/public/events/7 talk].
=== See also ===
* [[Goals/Goals_Process|Goals Process]] — The process of selecting new KDE goals.


More details about the goal: https://phabricator.kde.org/T7116
=== External links ===
* [https://kde.org/goals The dedicated page for goals on the official KDE website.]

Latest revision as of 18:33, 19 September 2024

KDE sets goals that help the community at large to focus on to improve upon over the next few years. The initiative began in 2018, and new sets of goals are selected every few years.

Current goals

These goals were announced at Akademy 2024.

Previous goals

This is an archive of previous year's goals. While these are old goals, they are still considered as important areas to work on in the community.

2022-2024

2020-2022

2018-2020

See also

External links