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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] May 1,
From:       Adam Wood <AdamWood () xephi ! co ! uk>
Date:       2007-04-12 16:31:13
Message-ID: 200704121731.13863.AdamWood () xephi ! co ! uk
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On Thursday 12 April 2007 16:31:18 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 23:34:55 Adam Wood wrote:
> > I just joined the list today and as well as agreeing that early milestone
> > announcements should be kept within the developer community this seemed
> > like a good opportunity to just say 'Hi'.
> 
> Hi and welcome to the list.
> 
> What are you interested in, what would you like to get your hands dirty
> on? :-)

I'm interested in everything. ;-) I don't have enough spare time for it all 
though. I'm on the list because I think at a technical level KDE is a 
complete desktop environment, and my personal opinion is that it's the best 
overall that's available on Linux. What I find disappointing is that it 
doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I think we, as a community, need to 
aggressively push KDE into the public consciousness and have ordinary people 
going into stores or to Dell and asking if they "sell" KDE. Linux is a scary 
word for most people and judging by the success OpenOffice and Firefox have 
had by avoiding that stigma it's one to drop. You don't hear Microsoft 
talking about the Kernel in their marketing for the Aero interface.

Maybe the interest is generated by handing out fliers at trade shows, getting 
computer magazines and newspapers to write articles about KDE without 
mentioning Linux, or maybe it's something else. Either way I want to help 
generate ideas now because if the release schedule for KDE4 is still accurate 
then there's a lot to do before the big day.

I've got a lot on my plate at the moment but if there's a project that's half 
finished or something small I could tackle then I'm happy to help where I 
can.

I suggested an idea to the list this morning which I've been thinking about 
for a few days. I'd like to make a Live-CD which isn't an installer or a 
plain system but a nice ready to boot example of everything KDE can do. Well, 
maybe not everything. ;-)

That turned out a lot longer than I intended so I'll apologise for hijacking 
this thread now.

Adam
 
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