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[Aaron Honeycutt <honeycuttaaron3@xxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds like great to me and it's great to see progress here. Thank you
for the work that you have done Rick!

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 1:55 AM Rick Timmis <ricktimmis68@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hello KC
>
> I got an opportunity to catch up with Jonathan Riddell ( Kubuntu
> Treasurer) and we talked around the following points
>
> 1.) Kubuntu Financials and Fund Raising - Kubuntu has around £18,000 in
> the fund, which has accrued over the period of a few years, and is ALL
> collected via the donate button on our website.
> The account continues to grow steadily via donations, and therefore the
> Kubuntu Council should be encouraged to think about how to use those funds
> in the context of Kubuntu
> *Please do share your ideas*
>
> 2.) The Kubuntu Magazine idea - JR was very supportive of this idea,
> however, he had good advice, in that he felt it could appeal to a broader
> audience if it were a KDE magazine, that provided broader coverage across
> multiple distro's (e.g OpenSuse, Ubuntu Studio, Neon etc...)
> JR also discussed with me the current KDE Goals https://kde.org/goals and
> also directed me to open a dialogue with the KDE Promo team which I am
> doing.
> Specifically the goal of 'KDE is All About the Apps', he felt that this
> objective could blend very well with the Magazine Idea.
>
> 3.) We talked about the Kubuntu Focus, and the KDE Slimbook and shared
> information about those two products, along with the developing
> relationship with Tuxedo computers. The market for OEM Linux hardware is
> around 2-3% of the global computer market, Windows, dominates and Mac
> follows with a significantly lower margin. However, we should keep in mind
> that a small percentage of a very big number is still a large number.
>
> Overall it was a very positive conversation, Jonathan is interested in
> contributing to the magazine, and is very supportive of initiatives to
> promote and grow our communities.
>
> We agreed to catch up again in a month's time for another VR Coffee and
> chat, and I will give feedback to the Kubuntu Council as that progresses.
>
> *Next Steps*
>
> Chat on IRC/Telegram with KC revealed that our first base is to define a
> Vision/Goal ( Thanks Valorie, and Myriam ) - What I plan to do next is to
> draft an updated Kubuntu Vision / Goal, once I have something that the
> Council can work with I'll share it for refinement and review.
>
> Hope this is a useful update
>
> --
> Best Wishes
>
> Rick
>
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>
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>
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