 Thank you everybody, thank you for having me. My name is Peter Platt, I work for the World Nomination. We don't get it on the actions of any of you. I'm going to be talking predominantly about plasma and desktop here, rather than plasma mobile. That's an important product too, but that's part of our time. So here I'm just talking about how we mentioned earlier about the Europe desktop. But no, I thought that was the point, because, you know, who uses these computers anyway? I mean, we've all got smart phones and tablets and gaming consoles and other single-purpose devices that are not really intended to be general-purpose computers. You know, this is us, this is everybody, you know, we're on phones all day. So what's the point? What's the use of these? Well, it turns out a lot of people still do. We're talking about students and teachers. Students and teachers still use their computers. A lot of us call them office workers and business professionals. Same thing. This kind of work can typically not really be done on a tablet or a smart phone very easily. We've also got software developers that include a whole lot of awesome programmers. So they're all very familiar with how to develop or possible a digital software on a tablet. I don't know anything about that. We've got creative professionals, too. This kind of workflow on the part of the group. We've got kind of a conflict there. But we're professionals a little bit there. And we've got IT professionals and assistant administrators, too. They also use their computers. Can you have them pretty much? And we've also got gamers. People who are playing house video games. Even though a mobile is taken out of the game, you can see there's a lot too many games out there. So what advice do people get? What are they confident in their computers? It turns out there are a lot of commonalities here. But for most of us, what they want is they want high stability and a lot of stability with their computers. They don't want to have to be fluctuating and fixing problems. They want good defaults. They don't want to have to do a really intense amount of customizations. They also may want to, but few of them want to have to do this. They also want good viable access and energy features, because they're often working with different locations. They may be working with solid shares or NFS shares or other kinds of furlough locations. Everything is apologize just in one place. They typically need Microsoft Office and now they're willing to do it. As much as we all prefer that this was the case, we live in a world where lots of people out there almost everybody really uses Microsoft Office. So it's important for us to be able to operate with them. These people often follow the don't make me think model, which is everything should just work. And really, they don't want to have to figure out everything, everything they kind of want to use on it. As specifically, the students and teachers want good educational software. The office workers want really have a lot of document processing software. This is like image viewing and manipulation, PDF viewing and manipulation, especially that's really important. And they need Microsoft Office to take advantage of it, because most major globalists use Microsoft Office change. Three professionals want artistic and design software, including we have a lot of that in maybe a year, in particular, which is fantastic. But that doesn't have to be software and IT professionals want very productive units like environment. They typically prefer to develop this as opposed to windows. And gamers want to have all the games. We're going to have a lot of games for the rest of the job, because unfortunately, I don't have much to offer, but basically these people just want to get stuff done. That's what they want to do. They want to have a superior hobby. They want their computer to be a productive tool. And they want the operating system to help them do this and how to get them to know each other. So I'm going to introduce the usability and productivity initiative now. This is something that the KT community set up as one of our major roles late last year. And what this set of compasses is the dual goals of usability and productivity. We're going to meet with users early. Usability means the defaults, the software to support what most people want to do most of the time. Not what a tiny group of people want to do all the time and to be affordable for them, but we need to make sure that the defaults are good for the common case. It also means consistency. It means a lot of things that are apps looking at the same way. They behave the same way. It means that even if it's consistent, the icons are consistent. Things like that. Because when things that behave the same look different, things that look different behave the same. It confuses people. It makes them slow down, which makes it difficult for them to use the machine. This also means discoverability. That means that if you're able to figure out how the software works without having to keep it manual, without having to go online and ask for help, the software should be large instead of talking about it. And in addition, we need to catch a line which is better than the diagram. We need to make sure that the roles and ways that people can understand. And we need to really need to find and install upgraded handover software. This is really important because most people use it lots and lots of different apps. They don't just use what the algorithm gives them to provide. And we need to make it easy for people to do that stuff. And all of this pretty much falls under simple by default, which is happening, but this is a little bit of it. The other cap is productivity. And productivity, but that means that our software needs to have really useful, powerful features that kind of means to save people time. So instead of having to spend an hour doing the work that he has worked on, the software should help him do it in the test settings. That's the kind of thing that I'm thinking about. Even in short cuts, our apps should have lots and lots of short cuts for experts and people who use the same app over and over again so that they can streamline their work close and be very, very, very fast at it. It means in general that whatever tasks they have, they should be able to accomplish things really quickly and easily. This is the powerful and needed side of our stuff. And all of this is documented at my blog, which many of you will read. It's pockys.stick.murkers.com. I post something every Sunday about what we accomplished on this and I hope you can join that as a viewer who are aware of it. So let's get into the actual steps of me to accomplish this. Step number one is to include the user contribution process. And I think this is kind of the foundation of everything because we've got a problem and that problem is that we don't have resources. Our software lovers really understand that it's huge, but oftentimes we run without people to support and maintain and improve all of our stuff. So it's really important that we help new people to integrate the community as easily as possible so that they can get involved. And some of the things that we can do to make this possible, I'm going to give you a set of a developer environment that's really important because right now it's kind of our agreement that we can improve our documentation for the users. We can increase our promo on the coverage efforts. And finally, this is the thing that we can work on installing on users. It can be really easy sometimes to get in and maintain my set of users, especially when you get a product report that's installed on you and show you a product report that's installed on you and show you a product report on you. This is terrible, right? It's really tempting to, you know, respond in time when you make sure that we're always diffusing that kind of thing because we can turn people who dislike our stuff into really loyal fans that we show them the positive side of what we can do. And if we succeed at this, what we're ultimately going to get is more manpower. We're going to get people's pets on this list. We're going to get better quality other than overall. And this is almost importantly, unfortunately, it's a piece of talk on my knowledge of that, but the other point is a sense of forward momentum. And this is really important because it builds on this stuff. When people sense forward momentum in a project, they want to join it. When people sense a project is dead, it won't stay there or even they like it. It's really important that we be seen as a project that's going on. Number two on our list of things to make it a long-standing issue. These are things that, after reputation and hard work users, I'm talking about things like Discover, the Blue Fire Indexer, Sabashan, and yeah, there's a lot of publication action in the let it go multi-screen. These are things that sometimes we've had challenges with in the past. And these things are probably improving, but I think some of these are really going to be key features towards increasing the attractiveness of our platform. And if we manage to do this, then people are going to have the features they need and our software is going to be more competitive. And finally, another result of this is that we're going to go with this bad press to the press. A lot of this is probably going to grow up because the bad press is something that's really hard for us and if we can manage to replace all of that and be seen as a positive land economically, then more people are going to have a step forward. So in step number three, we're going to polish the entire press. Step number three is going to create pretty much a part of the usability productivity initiative. This is what we're getting back of it. The problem here is just a lack of polish. Our software is really great, but sometimes it's not as a polish as it should be. And so what I'm proposing and this is part of the initiative is that the time where we focus on resources on a single load making systems that are probably very useful improving the default settings, increasing the consistency of the screen lighting hardware those things like that. I don't think they're very complicated but it's just a matter of kind of pulling it out and doing it. And if we can do this, then I think we're going to start to really attract a whole lot of newcomers from other platforms who have historically shot away from us because of the perception that it's sort of buggy and has poor usability and I don't think this is true but I think the more we can improve the easier it's going to be for those people to go out and pay on the amount of platform than we were there before. Finally, once we've got this our software is looking at a really kind of asset stake that's going to be great and then it's time to work with the history of hardware is more intensively than the hardware we're doing here because out of this version of software it's hard for users to get more software quite a bit and I think what we need to do is we need to increase our promotion to make sure that they're aware of what we've got and specifically we're bringing up distros that should maintain the forms of normally TDA software there are a lot of distros out there that do this and over time they have definitely had trouble maintaining our software as they diverged from normally TDA infrastructure and I think this distros can make really big candidates for conversion and if we can we can do this and I think KDP Plasma will be used by default and we're going to if not get them to use Plasma we can get them to ship really big KDP apps once we've got that then we can work with hardware partners because ultimately people don't really buy software they buy a hardware they buy a new computer I remember operating systems on that computer I lived with people I got us for a year this year most people stay with the same hardware that exists in that ship on other computers that's what we have to work with our hardware partners so this process evolves more permanently now reaching what we've got to do and especially that this is really low cost hardware these people often struggle with the cost of developing either our OS or the license for Windows so I think low cost hardware can be a really good opportunity for us to improve our market share there and if we can do this then it's going to be more possible for your average person to walk into a store with a computer that's keeping lots of time they might not even know what it is but that's what they're on all platforms and they're not going to think, hey this is a Windows and I like it they're going to really enjoy it because regardless of what it is they find it this is fantastic because of Steps 1.2.3 and let's move that all to that I think it's time to finally put a lot of effort into the personal operations you know this is really important because up until now I've been thinking of regular operations but in the business world people need temp software they move into that and as long as Microsoft exchange and the office has strength on this market it's really hard for us to bring in so I think after we've got all this we'll have some engineering resources and we'll be able to really aggressively focus our efforts we can make the back end more reliable we can polish these areas on the front end we can make it more compatible with Active Directory and Microsoft stuff and then we can also disparage distrust the ship about it all some dog right now these are the negative perceptions and these are even I'm asking if we can improve the state of the software itself and distrust we'll be able to say hey why not paying the jobs and money for Microsoft Office and the Active Directory exchange stuff when I get this free software which is good once that's done then I think what we need to do is put our resources in the legal office the legal office is really good I did this presentation in the legal office but it's unfortunately just not really a perfect job and I think that's one of the things that we can do we have a lot of engineering out here and once we've taken off some of the pressure on our own software I think we can donate some of that to the legal office community and to improve their stuff with the end result that it works better on our platforms they'll look better or feel better they'll look better usability and it will be more competitive with alternatives I think that's so what is on this level this looks like we have software that is stable and reliable and it's seen as a stable and reliable almost more importantly is Chocolate in the future it has a personal information management component that will help a business environment not just for home users but in a business environment and it's pretty solid hardware so you can get it without having to install it yourself and I think we've got all this stuff the whole world will fall everybody's going to say I like getting the software it's the best give it to me right now you know I'm happy to be treated it's amazing so so are we there yet? well not yet but we're getting there so for now if you could be your friend in this goal I'm just going to shout out to the AT&T just right now for both of us and and spearheading this this is a really important effort and in any way this is a foundation because if we don't have contributors we can't do anything else that clearly made good progress on this we've improved our application we've improved the process of studying the development environment there's much more to do but I think we've made good progress the visibility of productivity though that's the level of what we're saying now we've left resonated with the progress there is clean improvement this is highly visible users see it users like it users appreciate it and have people know in their direction in their partnerships this is an ongoing goal I think this is something that we're going to ramp up in the future and for any improvements to be so once we get done with the first two I think we'll have maybe some more leeway and resources to focus on next too and finally a deeper office improvements that leads to a return I don't think we've had any idea what's going on there but I do encourage all of you to help out the deeper office and open up first questions I put now I was interested the first time in a long time that I got my motivation plan was really wonderful oh thank you really awesome work second thing is you mentioned good people mm-hmm and we said that we should told the people what people what people use everyday but we don't know that because we don't have a a no the plan for that so this brings back the importance of something that Thomas was talking about which is really usability testing often you can use that kind of information I don't know if any of you are this talk but Thomas was talking basically about how to determine whether the software works to them whether they're able to use it I think a couple of months ago I had a show my instructor and there was a Super Bowl party and I asked them to I asked them how they use pilot analogs and we got a I know this is like exactly what we want a Super Bowl party of course so I asked them how they use pilot analogs and we got a lot really interesting information and this turned into a patch that involved adding some more places to the site the places where the challenge came back because they don't know how to use the desktop and everybody does use the desktop they should use the desktop well every single person I talk to said I do all of my traveling on the desktop so you know the reality is we've got to get about reality there I think being humble is really important it's important to confuse but it's really even for us to forget it's not everybody is in the same boat so we need to be humble we need to have contacts with other people we need to listen to them we need to pay attention to their analog flows you know just look over somebody's shoulder and spy on them see what they're using a computer it'll probably be pretty dirty but they'll tell you how people really use computers and that kind of thing matters any more questions? the citizens that we got here and we should try to also run on low cost hardware but I think it's kind of too heavy sort of if we actually have a crisis but I think it's worth it to be around everything from cheap to expensive no I think the bigger the deal I think we should actively target a specific market but I think this one may have the possibility there may be more potential costs there because they kind of struggle with their offerings especially in the next space because our software is really really well on low cost hardware right now and I think if we do put the hardware within that I think it's very people who have high power hardware because when you make anything lighter and easier to run some kind of solution or else I think that is an important part of the market I also want to add some discussion a few topics basically first of all is if Microsoft knows that there is no hardware industry so and it's completely impossible to have extremely good P4 so because it's Microsoft themselves they have a concept of personas or really how they have some companies and they have these different systems of personas because there's not much good in the second one I want to mention when we started we were actually stretching our own niches and we really wanted to use ourselves we wanted to correct it and have P4 to see what we know as 25 whatever and the goal was that we could use software for the audience which is very different needs also there are companies that are but it's very important to think about that that's really it's the last part on these I've been involved in the topic of in the Microsoft especially Microsoft is changing Microsoft very many I've had a group where I even something just of of creating each of them with the Microsoft service and I think it must be nearly a really good and finally I have it is not possible as you will never ever so if you try to do it myself I invested in if if it's not working reliable it's the same like allowing your brain in the morning you will do that sometimes and then after some days you will be really talking to the boss the same as if it's not reliable you get a big problem so thank you very much for your experience there that's something that I just want to say if we can't interrupt we still have to be so much better that nobody wants to use that so on your second point which is we're all scratching our edges here and we don't want to dump down software I don't want to use I think it's really important that we acknowledge that this isn't an indictor, or it isn't a matter of have software that's really simplistic so that regular people can use it, or have software that's very powerful to that person. I believe that it's possible that way. I think that this is one of the things that we need to be able to find it to solve this problem so that we can have software that is simple by default and powerful when needed. And on the plus side of it, powerful when needed can't. This isn't powerful in mind, which says nobody can find. This isn't slightly powerful with crippled. It's fully powerful. Powerful when needed, but simple by default. And I think if we can aggregate this balance right, we will simultaneously attract more people who don't need that power while not hiding any of it. I'm not in any way shape or form proposing to reduce the power of our software. It needs to be there. It needs to be obvious. It needs to be accessible. But maybe it doesn't need to be the very first thing people see, you know. Not everybody's a software developer. If we were to ship our applications to a software system, it would be a good user base that we can use. For example, a good example that I tried to do with my coworkers was to try to use Cate instead of all that plus plus. Now it's easier to do that. I think that's very, very difficult. Also, very popular are ideas for regular users, a file manager. Most people are still not the local commander. Even though we have our own Cate, it works far better, but the quality may be somewhat trusted again. It's not the whole, we are not going to say that we don't ship any version. I think it's important that we also publish software for other platforms so that people can know our software, and then they can decide, okay, anything that you think works for me is I have no reason to deal with Windows anymore. That's a really excellent point, and I agree 100% with you. That was actually one of the ways that I made my switch to Linux was by slowly moving my software that I use from proprietary versions over to free versions. And then finally, you know, the KDE versions, and then by the time I installed Plasma, I said, oh wow, all this stuff is all the same. It's great. So I think that is a key part of this, and I think that our system people are doing a great job right now with the Windows binary factory, producing binaries for a lot of our apps. I agree with you that I've heard needs to be expanded, we should publicize it more. That's probably a job with the promo team. So, you know, in the promo, maybe we can bring that up. Any more questions for you? Any more time? Okay, one more question. Oh, don't tell me I only need to bear a little bit. Thank you. Plasma developers, do you need to go ahead and share? People's work, that KDE, at first I tell him what the reason for it, and then I tell him over here that the KDE world is the best solution. Well, it seems that what you said is a holistic plan to dominate the world. But we did not emphasize on this, but what we used is a resource world. So, do you think that we can really liberate this more of a plan that is a resource world? I don't think it's irrelevant. I believe that unfortunately it's not as relevant to many users as it should be. Most people out there don't unfortunately care that their resource world is free more than they want all the works. And so I think it's really important that we shift for this software, and this is a selling point, but most people out there don't say, I will take free software even if it doesn't work as well as the proprietary alternatives. Some people will, but most people won't. And so that's why I think we need to make the choice easier to say, we've got free software that also works as well as the proprietary alternatives are even better. So then people are forced to make that choice. They'll say, well, it's all upsides and no downsides, of course I'll use your stuff. I think it's important that we keep in custody of some icons, and in wintertime you can also expect it for a cute, good decor office, so you have them for another party here. Noam has also put in a good integration, and since three days last release, also windows have a good integration in your office. My first question was, why nobody work on compatibility to Microsoft Office, when they release a new version with new icons? Nobody need new icons and have a shiny creation, we want to have compatibility. In the end, the legal office can't ruin this game because you can't have 100% of the capability to Microsoft Office, and I'm not sure if you really need 100% of the capability. Also saying, can't be 100% of the capability to exchange, but we have a text card, we have the office online, we have solutions, free solutions, open source solutions, they are as good and didn't have any problem with privacy issues. So I'm not sure if you want to fight against Microsoft Office, but Microsoft Corporation Systems Services, because I'm not sure if you can win this game. By the way, thank you so much for your work on icons for breeze and also for your office, it's really fantastic work. I think I deserve some applause. Like I said earlier, I think my response is going to be the same, which is that if we can't interoperate with them, it's a little more important than we need them, that we say, hey, don't use that, because this stuff is better and it's free and you don't need to pay for it and your data will never be tracked in there, so we've just got to keep up the polish work to make sure that the legal office is as attractive and open as possible. So, thanks for... Thank you for...