From kde-panel-devel  Fri Sep 29 10:40:38 2017
From: Paul Brown <paul.brown () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 10:40:38 +0000
To: kde-panel-devel
Subject: Status Report on Purism/Librem 5 situation
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Hello Everybody,

=46rom an email Todd Weaver, CEO at Purism, sent us recently:

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>We are planning on hiring staff in November, and that is where we have the=
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plan of spearheading KDE on our hardware.
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> We have a few early production development boards, we plan to get into th=
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hands of one of our KDE focused developers, so also hope to put out some KD=
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on development progress.
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>We also would like to provide that hardware to key KDE developers probably=
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December of this year or January of 2018.
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>Are there additional things you'd like us to do? (regarding the campaign=20
page, is there something more specific or language we should change?)
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>Thanks again for your support here, and let me know what you'd like to see=
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more (if anything) from us.
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And then Fran=E7ois T=E9chen=E9, Director of Creative at Purism, sent us th=
is:

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> I have added this image in the "Software" section:
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> https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/librem5-gnome-kde-diversity.jpg
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> I also asked Matthias Klumpp, one of our developers who is in touch with =
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developers to get me a couple of Plasma mobile screenshots. I should have t=
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pretty soon.
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> I plan to replace a few GNOME screens with KDE ones on the page(including=
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the top image)
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> I also plan to update the video as it is not showing any KDE screen.
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> Hopefully, all this will be done by the end of next week.
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So things are going swimmingly. Please continue to spread the word and let'=
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all make a phone!

Cheers

Paul
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