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Apr
I've been working on these articles for KJSEmbed and have loved the response I've gotten so far. We have generated new interest in the project and gained a few followers...
it makes me think of all the untapped potential out there in KDE. we have this very nice desktop environment, sure it has a few glitches, but we are getting there. what we seem to be missing is promotion. now people say we need a multi-million dollar marketing campaign, some people say we need a company to support us... but sadly i don't see these things happening any time soon.... maybe instead we can write more articles. maybe we can show our managers about solutions. i dunno... but i think us showing off our stuff to the world will do more than complaining about lack of exposure ;)
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damn straight!
IMHO you're exactly right, Ian. we have an army of users who are our fans and a large group of people who are enthusiastic developers. we have the resources of a large publicity engine just waiting to emerge in the form of all these people.
learn what KDE is, and then share that knowledge far and wide.
for this to REALLY work, though, i think it would be VERY good to have some meme-creators. most tech people aren't very good at coming up with sexy hook-lines. KDE embodies so many insanely great ;-) concepts, but it isn't always easy for those who know about them to communicate them in 50 words or less.
KDE Promo & Quality Teams
We have the structure and documentation in place for a really good promotional team, but sadly we lack people. I recently did a lot of work on the promotion and media guides:
http://quality.kde.org/develop/howto/howtopromo.php
http://quality.kde.org/develop/howto/howtomedia.php
IMHO, part of the problem with the slow progress in the Quality Teams project is that KDE lacks the organisation to make everyone share a focus at certain times. For the project to work, and for KDE to make an effective effort at promotion without a lot of money, everyone needs to be conscious of how to promote their work, or how to encourage and recruit Quality Team members to do it for them.
At the moment, I feel KDE as a community and as a project focusses almost entirely on code, to the detriment of other areas like usability and promotion. But it'd be, or it will be, difficult to move in that direction without compromising code and annoying developers. GNOME has a foundation dedicated to these sorts of things... can KDE do the same without all the baggage associated with a foundation?