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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Take a look at Linux1.no
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-06-15 22:38:16
Message-ID: 200606151638.17387.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Thursday 15 June 2006 19:15, Birger Kollstrand wrote:
> Torsdag 15 juni 2006 22:20, skrev Aaron J. Seigo:
> > On Thursday 15 June 2006 16:01, Birger Kollstrand wrote:
> > > Linux1.no is a small but leading Linux site in Norway. Take a look at
> > > the graphs on the left side of the page.
> >
> > do you have an idea what the readership demographics are?
>
> This is one of the most active Linux sites in Norway (proabably THE most
> active)
>
> The "poll" is done by users setting in their profile what is their default
> distro and desktop environment.

and yet it seems that less than 200 people have done so through a 
self-selection process. i know of 50+ kde users in one particular office in 
oslo (guess which one? =). if those people signed on it would look a bit 
different, no? small sample sets are often misleading, though not always. 
hard to gauge how this data reflects the realities of norway.

of course, as someone who actually -lives- there perhaps you would be able to 
comment on how accurately this reflects on your experiences with other linux 
users in the country? then again, i don't know if i could do that for my 
country, only the city i live in really.

> I think it also highligts that KDE needs to be active in these arenas also.
> There are regularly new users comming to this site asking for advise and
> with most of the users going Gnome... That is not good for KDE.

well, it's better than if most of the users were going MacOS or Windows =) we 
really try not to encourage a "KDE against GNOME" mentality as it too often 
just devolves into squabbling and embarrassing events and makes the whole 
open source desktop community look bad (hello /.) ...

however, what can do of course is to be a good KDE advocate and evangelist. 
that means doing things like:

 - provide help and support to existing KDE users (keeping existing users 
takes the least effort and time and protects investment made elsewhere)

 - write articles in your native language about KDE. perhaps highlight 
specific applications, tips, tricks or news items. take new releases as an 
opportunity to write.

 - when someone asks, "How can I do <task>?" answer it from a KDE perspective 
focussing on the benefits. e.g. "What's a good calendaring 
application?" -> "KOrganizer is great. It supports over a dozen calendar 
sources, handles multiple or large calendars well, looks nice and has nifty 
integration with groupware servers, desktop reminders and even HTML export to 
remote servers! If used as part of Kontact (just start Kontact, it 
automatically uses KOrganizer for calendaring) you can use it with your email 
so if someone sends you a message with an appointment attached you just click 
on it 'Accept' or 'Decline' and it does the right thing." the nice thing is 
that relatively few things are not possible in KDE, so there's often an 
answer for "How can I..."

so in other words, be helpful, positive and pro-active. people gravitate 
towards such things naturally. 

most of all do not be argumentative or insulting to other people's efforts as 
that just turns it into an emotional thing where people act out of pride and 
spite. if that isn't part of the equation, however, people will choose what 
works best for them ... and those are the users we want.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
Undulate Your Wantonness
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