 Hello, Babisha. Thank you. Thank you everyone for coming. What is happening in KALIDI? It looks like a very simple question, but try to ask five different people. And I'm wondering what kind of answers you are going to get. During a small experiment, you are going to find very, very different answers, much depending on which kind of social idea or news sites those people are using. An idea for this talk came to me as I started to read a little less of KDE developers blog and a little more of general news because of lack of time to read all that is happening for the developers in KDE. And then I realized that depending on the news source, I get a completely different view of KDE. So, as of someone with a research background, let's do some research. When we start research, we define the observation time period from Academy to Academy, from September 2019 to August 2020. So, what were the important KDE events during the time? Please use the chat and write down what you think was important, what you find important, what you've read on the different news sites. From the Academy to Academy, the Academy of 2019 included. Of course, there were a lot of things happening. And if we just go to the official KDE news sites, we'll find the release posts, we'll find developers blogs, enormous amount of information. So, in the end, it is I did. I assume that you are reading or listening a single news source, reading a website, listening to a podcast. My discovery of the last year are Linux-related podcasts. So, I had to cover a little bit of that. And the news sites I have analyzed, it's my personal choice, the things I read, all the things I thought interesting to tell you about. There were more I investigated, but I think that we can cover just a little bit. And then you will see what shows up from it. I decided not to use social media. So, only news sites, podcasts, and no social media for very practical reasons. Social media is pretty hard to grab and analyze. And there's a lot of posts. So, it's complicated to work with this data. And the other point was that you are probably aware, depending on who you are, social media gives you different content. Depending on all the things you are reading, all the things you like for me and from everyone of you, Facebook, all the social media gives completely different things. So, I found it's not very reliable to look into. Yes, Instagram also. As Jonathan suggests, it also gives different things. That can be an idea for some further research in the future. But for the next one. So, I can see that there is already, there are some ideas in the chat. We have KD working more on Wayland, monthly app updates, usability productivity, several plasma releases, plasma 518 LTS. And the KD Instagram is probably very influential. I guess so. Haven't checked out. I guess so. With the nice screenshots. How I organized the results I present to you. I start from the sites where I found less reference to KDE. And then I'm going forward with more and more references. So, let's get started. If the only thing you were reading was Tech Republic, you will learn very little about KDE. In November last year, there was an interview with Fedora project leader who was mentioning the KDE spin as one of the project that there is. Then in the middle of year, we have had an article about which Linux user interface is best for which kind of type of audience. And they decided the plasma is the best for admins. And there was one article about distribution specific laptops and in the featured slim book, for example. And then quite recently, there was one article with the title, I'm still not switching from normal. Talking about new features of the KD still, but with a conclusion as you can probably imagine. So, not very much, nothing probably from the list they have written in the chat. Let's go forward to another site. Linux weekly news. That's a little bit more complex. It's a more Linux, a lot of kernel in depth articles. And what do we find here? Not 2019, but in 2020, it starts to appear more. We have a point about the plasma big screen. We have a point about the key cute licensing linking to the famous post on the KD community mailing list about the issues between the good foundation and KD. I guess that probably everyone is a little bit aware of that story. And we also do have pretty big covering of KD and live and two versions. So we have 2004 and we have 2008. Later in the year, we have the release of plasma 519, but not 518. And we have the DigiCam release also. So you can probably see that we have the big, the big releases. We have some preferred applications here for some, for some a little bit surprising, finally. And the very big, important open source facing issue of licensing of KD. Now we are moving forward and we'll change the place and the way of accessing the media. Linux Unplugged. It's a one of very popular Linux plaque, a Linux podcast. Getting out every week from my point of view, very much distribution oriented and very much user oriented. They invite developers, but they are very much oriented to the end user. How the CIS admins and advanced Linux user can configure and work with their systems. And we have even more KDE stuff. I would probably start with the plasma going a little bit mixed in the time, because the time here may be a little bit complicated. We have the plasma releases 517, 518. We have the Manjaro with plasma that gets reviewed. We have the review in general of plasma, different points of view on plasma in the distro review episode. We do have a little bit of hardware. We have the Kubuntu focus. We have the Manjaro KDE on pinback. And what's interesting, we do have them covering the neon based on the latest Ubuntu 2004. From the things that are less known on the other sides. I would like to point out that they have mentioned the fact that KDE was looking for a project manager. That's one of the updates when the search was in progress. They were talking about it. And now, something that I couldn't put on the timeline because there was a little bit too much of it. On Forenex, you basically have an article every 3 to 4 days. When I look at just the KDE summary, there were 4 pages for the year. What we do have being covered every time it shows up is the Nate's Blackpost, the week in KDE, which is summarized on the site, every single week. And we do have the Plasma Mobile Weekly. When it was published, it was also summarized on the site. Now, they're covering also a lot of KDE releases. Quite obviously, there are all of the Plasma releases, the Framework releases, and the KDE applications as a blog. But they also cover the big applications like DigiCam, KDevelop, KdenLive, Krita. But surprisingly, also some of those that are a little bit, I think, less popular, like the Trinity Desktop, KML Online, that went. And they also covered the Kiwin FT fork. For those who missed it, because they were reading other sites, that is the fork to make Kiwin better on Wayland. And that got covered multiple times. You probably noticed it also on the LWN net that was also mentioned, but only once. First part and the second part. They are also covering the developers Blackposts. I listed a few names that got covered. And there were some various posts about the conference presentations about hardware. I found a point about Kubuntu Focus, a few of them, but I didn't find anything about SlimBook. They covered the GitLab migration. They covered the big screen initiative. And they had an article about the KDE events in December, summarizing the whole year 2019. And now a few takeaways from the whole thing. I was looking what the new sites do pick up. And I found out that there is a different KDE year on each of those. And there's no COVID. If you look at KDE, there's absolutely no COVID in there. The releases, they matter. Maybe not all of them, but they get covered. Good release documentation, materials related to the release, they do happen. They do make a difference and they will get taken by the new site. Plasma definitely is a thing, but also the big applications, the big paper application. In this year, what got covered on the hardware side were laptops. No phones whatsoever. They didn't find anything about KDE on phones this year. And that's probably understandable for most of you. The big changes happening, the project, be them good or bad. Like licensing changes or licensing issues. Like the conflicts happening in the project. Like folks, if they happen, they have a big chance to be taken by the new sites. My suggestions for people working on projects, if you want to get covered, what you can do? Weekly news from projects, communities on the applications. That's something that gets read and maybe not every single time, but from time to time, the information goes out and is covered. Detailed block posts. For example, about the design decisions behind the big changes and the modification that are very much visible to the user. That's something that if you write a block post about it, it can become popular and transmitted by the new sites. I also think I can even bet to that. If someone starts writing what is new in Plasma or in KDE, in a given distribution in the new version, that is likely to get covered. Definitely, the changes in KDE happen at some point, but the moment when it shows up in the distribution, it's a different moment of time. Many people will be interested in knowing that some of those changes did come to their distribution right now. Hardware running KDE. Last point, that is definitely interesting to people. If you write about hardware running on KDE, being laptops, be it phones, be it watches or whatever you can find, I would say it's going to be covered. Before we wrap up and we go to the questions, a little bit of a footnote about the data analysis. As a developer, I wanted to automate things. I will grab the RSS, but the number of keywords related to KDE is big because we have to cover KDE, we have to cover Plasma, we have to cover all of the biggest applications. The feeds do not cover the whole yet, but that's probably I can work around. On the other hand, there's the abstract of the news and there is the news itself. For some sites, the KDE is not even in the abstract. It is in the content of the article, so you have to look for desktop review, for distribution review, and then look into the article itself to find out if the KDE is covered in there. Finally, most of the analysis was done manually, not all of it. If you know about the tools, I'm interested and I'm also wondering that with all of those keywords, maybe I can do some artificial intelligence next time for the next analysis. That may be an interesting experience. Now, we'll go to the questions. That was a great talk, Martha. Thank you. We have a question. The monkey app updates don't tend to get many pointers. Isn't that a problem in the format? A good question. I'm not sure why it gets no updates, no news. I can look into that. Maybe there is some issue with the referencing. I would say that it's definitely something that has a potential to be heavily linked. I can look into that and try to suggest what you can do to make it more popular. Okay, great. One more question. Can you come to Domo and help us out there? We collect a lot of data, but could use your advice? Yeah, definitely. That's something I will do soon, coming back a little bit more in the development and in the data analysis. Definitely, I can help the promo team with that. Okay. We have another question. There is a link, which you'll be able to see in the shared notes. If you're interested in hard data regarding coverage of KD news, blogs and so on, I think it's not a question. Yeah, but very interesting. I take an out of the link. I wasn't aware, so I'm taking it differently. Something not to look into for me. Yeah, and one person is asking, any good podcasts you looked at? Depending what we are searching for. There are a lot of Linux podcasts out there, and depending on what kind of content you are looking for, if it's more of an admin user, Linux unplugged for that, it's very good. There are podcasts about new people coming to Linux and about more beginner stuff. I can probably come with some names, but they do not come just right now. You search in your favorite search engine for Linux podcasts. There's also, for example, the Ubuntu podcast that is pretty good. My suggestion is go look for those podcasts. There are a lot of them. Listen to an episode or two and you will make your mind finding out if it's interesting for you or not. That's the way I'm doing it.