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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] planet.gnome.org
From:       Sebastian =?iso-8859-1?q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! nl>
Date:       2006-01-04 8:42:02
Message-ID: 200601040942.03158.sebas () kde ! nl
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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 17:04, Wade Olson wrote:
> Today there's a fairly long blog post by Havoc Pennington on
> http://planet.gnome.org/ about promo and marketing.

http://log.ometer.com/2006-01.html#3.2 for later reference

> I'd encourage people to read and absorb.  I'm still absorbing
> (deciding what I agree and don't agree with), but at least it spurs
> further thought, which is good.


The "we need to market wholes, not drills" thing is definitely right (and 
common sense, which seems to be not so common). Also, I tend to agree with 
'We need "corner cases don't matter" conditioning', that saves us from a 
marketing strategy that is too vague and too broad for someone to remember - 
or even notice.

I think with respect to the building block model, hp drafts, KDE is _much_ 
further technically, and following that up we should probably be focussing on 
those assembling the building blocks. That involves good contact with 
distributors, though. But just aswell, KDE needs to focus on its current 
users - powerusers that know really good how to deal with all the technical 
details. The problem is, that this does not provide too much growing 
potential. So we need to speak "Joe Average" here.

Anyway, good read, good links in it also. On to the dentist now.
-- 
sebas

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