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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] news.news.com.com
From:       Oliver Strutynski <olistrut () gmx ! net>
Date:       2002-02-18 0:34:33
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On Saturday 16 February 2002 09:04 pm, Darian Lanx wrote:
> > Think of yourself as the editor of a newspaper or magazine, you have a
> > deadline at 10 and you are looking for something to fill up that last 2"
> > x 2" white spot.
> 
> If they are approaching KDE with that attitude, they are not interested
> in anything better than filler text and that is not really what I would
> think KDE to want.

I remember having seen a number of very short articles about several open 
source projects (I know there was something about GnuPG) in the computer 
sections of a number of German newspapers (yes, daily papers). While 
certainly a long article helps KDE much more that a short notice about a new 
release, any mention of KDE will make people more aware of that great desktop 
software that is somewhere out there... And I am pretty sure that does help 
increase the awareness of average readers for KDE/Open Source.

> A press release is something that cannot be printed,
> at least not for most magazins, it has to be carefully read, the key
> points have to be narrowed down, summarized and then youmight end up
> writing a full article or just publishing your summary. filling a last
> "2 x 2" spot is most likely going to be something mroe towards what
> underware linus prefers.

While that is certainly true for most computer magazines, that does not apply 
for the mainstream (i.e. non-computer) press. Sometimes they might not even 
have the expertise to write a good article on KDE, so why not give them 
something they can just narrow down a bit and print it without too many 
modifications? (And then of course include the full release, with change 
logs...)

> > 3) KDE is developed by people from all around the world.
> 
> I thinkt he thrid point is stale, because that is something everybody
> knows allready. There have been numerous articles about KDE, it`s
> community and the people behind it. No need to put any effort into this
> explaining it over and over again.

Again: Think about mainstream press/mainstream readers. The only thing they 
might know about KDE is that "there is some cool windows replacement", but 
"it runs on Linux, must be complicated..."

Oliver


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 Oliver Strutynski                      oliver.strutynski@cs.tum.edu
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