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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Developer stats quickies
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-12 18:29:19
Message-ID: 5847e5cf0907121129s44b1f4dfud68cc9225b6dc7e3 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Jos Poortvliet<jospoortvliet@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Lydia Pintscher<lydia@kde.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 19:56, Troy Unrau<troy.unrau@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Would this be better as a blog entry, or as a short dot article, I wonder...
> > > 
> > > Thoughts? I can push either one online.  If I don't have any feedback
> > > in 48 hours, I'll just make an arbitrary decision on it.
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > 
> > +1 for blog
> 
> Actually I think it would be a nice idea to have an article about
> growth and adoption of KDE. It's of course hard to come up with
> numbers in many area's, but still...
> 
> Besides these numbers/stats, we could mention:
> millions of EEE-pc's and Acer Aspire one etc with KDE tech (we might
> have had 100% marketshare, but that was in a time there were some
> 100.000 items shipped/year. Now we have 5-10% of a multi-million
> market, so in absolute numbers it's a huge growth)
> deployments in countries like Brazil, Russia
> Adoption by Maemo, Nokia working on phones with Qt (will in time lead
> to KDE stuff on there)
> let's not forget that our technology is almost everywhere already in
> the form of Phonon and WebKit.
> the doubling/tripling (what was it again?) of monetary income in KDE e.V.
> 
> And I'm sure there is more. We could collect some numbers for a while
> and then create a story?!?

I forgot to add - we managed to close almost 10.000 bugs and implement
2000 feature requests for the next KDE release! we had contributions
by almost 700 people (that was more like 500 just over a year ago, if
I recall correctly)

> > 
> > Cheers
> > Lydia
> > 
> > --
> > Lydia Pintscher
> > Amarok community manager
> > kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org
> > claimid.com/nightrose
> > 
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