6–11 Sept 2025
Technische Universität Berlin
Europe/Berlin timezone

Handling Negative Feedback

7 Sept 2025, 11:25
40m
Room 1

Room 1

Conference Talk Main

Speaker

Akseli Lahtinen

Description

In this talk I would go over various negative and positive feedback I've gotten during my time of being KDE contributor.

Notable examples are window outlines, rounder corners to items and KUrlNavigator changes.

I've gotten both "hatemail" and seen "redditors" trash my work publicly. However, I will also remind the audience that there's good feedback too, and it's why I keep doing what I do.

I'd like to go over it all and share things I've learned about it: How to handle the feedback, how to pick out the actual golden information, how it can affect ones psyche/motivation..
And I would also go over some ways to give polite, constructive feedback.

It would likely end with a reminder that we're all human after all and we should maybe chill a bit, instead of ranting at FOSS devs. :)

Description

How to handle negative feedback and is it all negative? Also tips for giving constructive feedback.

Biography

I've been KDE contributor since around 2021 and I work at Tech Paladin working on KDE software. I tinker with KDE things pretty much daily!

Social Links

https://akselmo.dev/

Headshot Link https://nextcloud.akselmo.dev/index.php/s/bN8giXynCTFWj46

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