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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    [kde-promo] Address database for press contacts
From:       "Bas v.d. Wiel" <bas () kompas-media ! nl>
Date:       2003-04-21 16:47:28
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> The question, you can ask yourself. What is the best for KDE PR. Spend two 
> days configuring your server and Open LDAP or spend two days to write an 
> article in Dutch about KDE.

> Cheers,
> Charles

I see your point, and it's a sad state of affairs but inherent to open
source projects I think. Luckily I'm not a programmer, not even a
would-be-programmer, so I may just as well get underway to write that
article. But we do need a proper system to punch contact info into and
evaluating between a relational database or a directory seems a valid
consideration in such a matter. 

That's also what test servers are for, but once there's a bare bones
system in place that works we should start filling it. Those who can
improve it in areas that the KDE promo effort actually needs are welcome
to do so, but the priority should be filling it with useful data. If it
works, don't fix it, improve KDE itself instead.

Writing content is something I do much better than writing code, so I'll
stick to that. I have this very handy set of books here called "Handboek
van de Pers", containing addresses of practically all (thousands)
serious printed media in the Netherlands. It's all on paper, but once a
database for KDE-promo exists I'll fill it with any relevant addresses
from these books. That'll probably take quite a lot of time for a single
person but it's feasible and provides a gradual path to see if the
system scales properly and functions as intended. 

If it keeps working properly after some time we can start attracting
people from other countries to fill their parts of the system and maybe
attract some funding for colocation of the box.. but those are all
matters that need to be addressed later. For now I'll finish setting up
the box first and Mark can get underway coding the basic app to go with
it.

kind regards,

Bas


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