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Subject: Re: [kde-promo] KDE's philosophy for SpreadKDE
From: Pier-Olivier Thibault <ximaginex () gmail ! com>
Date: 2007-02-24 0:57:51
Message-ID: 200702231957.51986.ximaginex () gmail ! com
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On Thursday 22 February 2007 18:25, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Thursday 22 February 2007 14:50:03 Pier-Olivier Thibault wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 February 2007 04:02, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > We usually define KDE three-fold:
> > >
> > > - community
> > > - software
> > > - development platform
> > >
> > > Important values we've identified are:
> > >
> > > - Freedom
> > > - platform independance
> > >
> > > Right now, it's too much morning for me writing Lyrics, I'll try to
> > > come up with something later on. Anyone who's proficient in writing can
> > > help, of course. :-)
> >
> > Thx for responding but I wonder if this is not a programmer-only
> > oriented? One of our goal is to increase the contributors in different
> > areas. As the three categories (community, software and development
> > platform) are very good, the values are bit too much developer-oriented.
> > I really want to be "general" so everyone can find the information useful
> > for them..
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> A common misunderstanding. Let me explain why.
>
> KDE is much more than a "Desktop Environment" (which is a far too abstract
> concept anyway). It's a group of nice people with the same vision: Building
> a Free desktop operating system (kind of thing), dedicated to free software
> and the underlying values. We are currently doing a very good job in
> extending this community of freedom-loving contributors to
> non-developer-types. See for example the recent inflow of people who are
> good at writing dot stories, see the usability subcommunity that is growing
> around KDE. To make KDE really rock, and to bring Free Culture to the
> world, not only developers are needed. That is the community aspect.
>
> To developers and ISV's, KDE is very meaningful as a way to use advanced
> technologies and have their applications integrate well with other
> applications (think DBus, think kdelibs and much more). It's also an easy
> way for high-level development tools. The code once, deploy everywhere
> aspect is also very interesting for this group of developers. It cuts costs
> for ISV's as well. That is the platform aspect.
>
> And then there's lots of software, ranging from the workspace ("KDE
> desktop", plasma in the future) to various applications (think Amarok, k3b,
> digiKam, all that goodness which are great applications in themselves).
>
> That's the three-fold definition, forgetting any one of those makes the
> picture of "What is that KDE thing?" incomplete.
>
>
> On to the values:
>
> Freedom is an abstract concept, and as that neither developer oriented nor
> user-oriented. What we want to do is making that abstract concept (the FSF
> definition of "Free") graspable for the individual. Keeping it an abstract
> value has the problem that it's quite hard to a) transport into the mind of
> potential new users and b) link it to direct advantages. So that freedom
> has various meanings, for developers, for users, for companies that want to
> deploy or build on top of KDE. Here are some examples:
>
> - Freedom from harrassment of mandatory registration and Digital
> restrictions management (end user's benefit)
>
> - Freedom to use KDE as development platform and create cool applications
> with it, no licensing fees, professional tools with little restrictions
> (that'd be a developer's benefit)
>
> - [...]
>
> So the concept is not telling "KDE is cool because it's free", but
> translating this abstract concept of Freedom into direct, graspable
> benefits for the target group at hand.
>
> So how does SpreadKDE fit in that picture? Simple, SpreadKDE enables the
> promotional and marketing community to work effectively and scale well.
> That's why it's important.
Very nice text... That's exactly what I want to put in KDE's philosophy on
SpreadKDE.org: A general philosophy that would be understandable and
graspable by any kind of human being interested in KDE. I think you kinda
explained the main theme that I will be using such as:
-Freedom (tryin to explain every meaning of it basically)
-Development Platform (High technology, good development tools, etc.)
And maybe in the end a Section to prove what we mean by showing off Amarok,
K3B. as I don't want to promote KDE so much in the philosophy section, I just
want the user to understand into what kind of universe he is going to dive
in.
I'll write something up tomorrow and I'll post it here and on #kde-promo,
you'll be all free to criticize it :)
Thanks,
Pier-Olivier Thibault
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