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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] A Preliminary Abstraction of the Target Groups
From:       Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! nl>
Date:       2005-11-20 21:20:38
Message-ID: 200511202220.38824.sebas () kde ! nl
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On Sunday 20 November 2005 22:13, C.M.Lotion wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> On Sunday 20 November 2005 01:46, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 November 2005 13:31, C.M.Lotion wrote:
> > > For example, we could offer users one-stop management of:
> > > - subscriptions for KDE (related) mailing lists (example format:
> > > http://www.suse.com/en/private/support/online_help/mailinglists/ ) ,
> > > - community memberships(local kde, kde-look, kde-apps, etc.),
> > > - news feeds, even from their KDE app and favourite distro,
> > > - personalized search options,
> > > - status of my-kde-projects,
> > > - access to my-kde-forums,
> > > - get more involved: current junior, intermediate or advanced jobs
> > > - etc.
> > > What if we could let people do all this from within kontact or by
> > > browsing to my-kde.org (extra options with konqueror) when they don't
> > > have access to or don't use Kontact?
> >
> > Matthias Ettrich and i were talking about exactly this the other week
> > when i was in trolltech's oslo offices.  instead of using kontact,
> > however, we discussed offering a distinct kde app for this. upon first
> > log in the user would be prompted to set up a KDE Community account which
> > would give them access to all this fun stuff. a launcher on the panel
> > would be provided for this app by default, and it would do much as you
> > noted above.
>
> Great! Thank you for your feedback. Does this mean that you are already
> working on the application? I would like to join your discussion, if you
> don't mind.
>
> > online documentation should be ammended to allow for users to add their
> > comments to it in a forum style (see how php and postgresql do this, for
> > instance).
>
> I agree, and apparently the documentation team is already working on it.
>
> > we could offer for-fee services as well as feature a "donate now" button
> > so when the user gets something they feel was worthwhile they can make an
> > impulse "buy", thereby creating a revenue stream for the KDE project that
> > we can use to fund events, marketing and even pay developers.
>
> This is something I did not dare to address right away, considering that a
> lot of people like everything to be "free as in beer".
>
> > > KDE marketing would benefit from such a personalised portal for:
> >
> > yes, this was another angle we talked about =)
> >
> :)

I really like the idea, but not to digest it for some time. If we have the 
manpower to realize that, I'd love to offer this sort of Kommunity for KDE4 
(although we should really not name it Kommunity :)).
-- 
sebas

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