From kde-core-devel  Mon Feb 05 17:18:44 2001
From: Philippe Fremy <fremy () yalbi ! com>
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:18:44 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: kde promoting, mailing list wanted!
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	Hi,

There was a thread here recently about marketing and Kde. I am clearly not 
the only one who thinks kde needs more promotion and marketing, from a user 
standpoint and from a developer standpoint.

I would like to see a list created to discuss those thing, so that we don't 
annoy people that don't want to hear about that.

Gnome is very good in marketing. I have been discussing this with kde 
people and neutral poeple and there is a clear lack of promotion for kde in 
this area. Many people are aware that gnome has some interesting 
technologies, like componenent model, unicode, bindings, dialog designer. 
Usully, they also know that it is "under development" (understand a 
nightmare to use). And usually, they don't even know that kde has all these 
technologies, for a long time and that it is very easy to use and develop 
with. This is the kind of problem I'd like to address in a mailing list. 

I have a few ideas on how to help to correct that. The main way seem to be 
to write good articles on programming with kde, to show how easy it is. I 
think there should be such an article every two month on an online magazine 
like linuxnews. We should help coordinating the writing and translating of 
such articles, so that people could make one really easy. We should also 
advertise more on developer.kde.org, because it is really an excellent site.

	regards,

	Philippe