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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Developer stats quickies
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-12 18:42:29
Message-ID: 5847e5cf0907121142v2c1bf94etb58be8a2c7b7e107 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Troy Unrau<troy.unrau@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem with writing such an involved article is that it's only
> fresh in peoples' minds for a short time - so even though it would be
> a great reference article for others to use, short frequent articles
> keeps the sense of activity fresh.  I like all of those suggested
> topics, but we should cover them one at a time, imho.
> 
> Of course I could be totally off the mark with the logic here, so feel
> free to chime in.

No, you make an excellent point. This short kind of articles won't
make it to slashdot but a continuous bombardment of them will make our
community feel more confident and everyone reading the dot will slowly
but surely begin to realize that we're doing great ;-)

Maybe mention articles like
http://dot.kde.org/2008/08/28/akademy-redux-release-team-members-propose-new-development-process
 And the move to git?!?

something like:
The growth of the KDE community can be felt widely, and as such work
has been ongoing for a while to prepare our development process and
our community for this. Recently, some number-gathering has been
happening, and we would like to share the result with you.

or whatever.


> Cheers
> 
> 2009/7/12 Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet@gmail.com>:
> > 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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> Troy Unrau, B.Sc.G.Sc.(Hons.)
> Planetary Sciences Student - University of Western Ontario
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