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Presentation: Lost Knowledge in KDE

How the hell did we make pyramids again?

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The KDE community will soon turn 24, thousands of people have participated in its projects. Some a still around, others moved on. During that time span, KDE grew software, partnerships, organizations, processes, documents, hugs... In other word a whole culture!

Well, turns out our species produced lots of cultures over the centuries. Some of their wisdoms found their way to us but most didn't as it was lost over time. This begs the question: what did we lose already?

In this talk, we will explore that haunting question of lost knowledge. Our culture isn't centuries old but still it's likely we forgot a few things. I collected feedback from various long time contributors to get an idea of what we stopped doing for no good identified reason or for things which need explaining over and over.

The topics we will talk about will be mostly technical of course... This is what you get by interviewing technical contributors. That being said, we will also touch upon a couple of legal, organizational and cultural issues.

Finally, we will muse a bit with ideas to avoid loosing knowledge and practices as much as possible. This is fine to change, it is better to change consciously than due to some form of amnesia.

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Day: 2020-09-11
Start time: 16:30
Duration: 00:30
Room: Room 1
Track: Non-Technical/Innovation

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