From kde-promo Fri Feb 22 15:02:02 2002 From: Jonathan Singer Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 15:02:02 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: [kde-promo] Re: KDE in top 1.5% X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=101439020902326 =46rom: Mark Bucciarelli >I figured. How do you picture this events toolkit? And how would you=20 >want to deal with money issues; for example, if the kit included > - t-shirts for sale, or > - brochures that were mailed to you, or > - brochures you printed yourself (on high-quality paper=20 > using a high-quality color ink-jet), or=20 > - business cards for you, or > - KDE 3 CD's for sale? =46irst, about money: I already paid over $100 to travel to LWE and most of= the others there also had hotel bills. If worst comes to worst, paying an= extra $20 to print brochures isn't out of the question. T-shirts and CDs= are another issue. Next, what I would have liked to have had in a kit is: * Brochures -- OK, I'll do this one myself, as soon as the documentation= rush for 3.0 ends in a couple of weeks. Andreas, can you send me (or= better, provide a URL) the existing file? Also, do you have connections at= any of the KDE League member companies who could get their marketing people= to provide a little pro bono feedback on it?=20 * Image files for posters -- This is a one time project. Artists, can you= make a few options that exhibitors can download and print? * Image files for T-shirts -- This probably already exists. * Demo tools -- I've never done a demo before and things like sample scripts= and kpresenter screenshows would have been helpful. Also nice would be a= couple of eye-catching themes. Come to think of it, maybe the best thing is= to make a tarball of a $KDEHOME directory that's flashy and demonstrates= useful KDE features. If you're the kind of person who submits screenshots= of your desktop to theme sites, consider this. * CD's -- This sounds great, but is difficult in practice. It's expensive= (Ximian was _selling_ boxed sets for $40, IIRC), needs to be continuously= updated and what would you put on it? My sense is that the typical Windows= user knows that when you go to a booth, they give you a CD that you go home= and run on Windows. Trying to explain to them, "We make software and other= people distribute it. You already have KDE or you can go to the Red Hat or= Mandrake booth and get a CD from them. If we gave you something, it= probably wouldn't work on your system anyway." just confuses them ("I don't= understand. Don't you make Linux?") but it's still true. Note that none of this is a KDE-Zine type deal -- it needs to be done once= and sporadically reviewed. The key things are 1) to do it and 2) to put it= someplace convenient. =46inally, regarding the KDE League: Andreas -- it should be clear now that= there's a serious problem with the League's perception in the KDE= community. Unfortunately, not telling people about anything you're doing is= indistinguishable from doing nothing. I know about your work in organizing= the KDE booth and media interviews and everyone knows about the Microsoft= settlement comment. But beyond that, you seem to be expecting people to= take on faith that all sorts of important secret stuff is being done and= they're not going to. If it were simply a matter of you doing things on your own time, than it's= no one else's concern. But you've set yourselves up as the leaders of KDE= promotion and have traded on KDE's name to collect money from companies,= and if you want to occupy that position you need to maintain your credibili= ty. _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.