From kde-core-devel  Wed Jun 24 06:50:48 2009
From: Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:50:48 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Repositioning the KDE brand
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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:01 PM, Alexander Neundorf<neundorf@kde.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Celeste Lyn Paul<celeste@kde.org> wrote:
>> > Would this discourage the use of "The KDE Project" which should now be
>> > simply referred to as "KDE"?
>>
>> Wel, yes, it should. We're a community, not a project. But I wouldn't
>
> IMO "project" includes the community ;-)

Sure, it's not a horrible term. The problem with it is that
'officially' a project is a temporary thing with a very specific goal
to be accomplished by a set amount of resources. That's not accurate
for what we're doing...

But if you think it's a woody* word, nobody will go Iranian government
on you if you use it ;-)

grtz
Jos

> Alex
>

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