On Thursday 23 August 2007 19:01:52 Eric Krüse wrote: > We are releasing in October, why a January party and why in the week? Because the October release date is just "wishful thinking" right now. If you ask me even January is pretty optimistic but I think it could be done with much effort. Really, to deliver a desktop that works at least a little bit, you need to have at least one beta release which has most features working with just issues to be sorted out. Having looked at the previous Beta 1 we still have yet to see such a Beta and I'm sure Beta 2 won't be that Beta yet. Torsten > "Aaron J. Seigo" schrieb: On Wednesday 22 August 2007, Troy Unrau wrote: > > I am not happy working in secrecy forever as that is not what KDE is > > about. We are far enough along that those that would be poisonous to > > the event planning could no longer exert their control on this event, > > and our team is pretty much set as it exists right now. > > agreed. i'm just fine with talking about the release event in general. > we've been doing that for a few months now, actually. > > but specifically what i'm concerned about is the level of certain details > covered in that blog entry. for instance, we now have 5 months where some > other project could beat us to the punch of hosting their release event at > google. it's not the end of the world, but it adds some risk that our event > won't be as media interesting (which is in part derived from uniqueness; if > everyone's doing it, it's boring. if we're the first to do something, it's > very interesting) > > i'd also prefer for us stage the release of the various details over time > versus all at once in a blog entry; this probably just means we have more > riding on the people we get to attend as presenters now as that's one of > the remaining bits we can still talk about and it be news. > > these are things we can do Better(tm) with through coordination. it's not a > life ending issue. > > > By the way, releasing little bits of information at a time is how you > > build hype. > > i agree. > > > Cheers folks, and once again it seems I'm stepping on people's toes. > > that's part of working in a group, yes. fortunately we all have pretty > tough toes and tend to tell each other when someone is on them. > > > It's a good time to take a break :) > > enjoy your vacation =) -- Torsten Rahn Tel.: 0 21 61 - 46 43 - 192 credativ GmbH, HRB Mönchengladbach 12080 Hohenzollernstr. 133, 41061 Mönchengladbach Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Meskes, Jörg Folz _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.