'Re: [kde-promo] Press release together with KDE?'

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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Press release together with KDE?
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-08-21 13:50:28
Message-ID: 5847e5cf0908210650w64114007y9a65e265a37a62da () mail ! gmail ! com
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Bjorn, Steffen, Nuno and Celeste,

First of all, congrats on the KDE related business, it's good to hear.

About KDE helping you in marketing & getting business: I think this
might be controversial. I personally have no problem with it
whatsoever, but others might (hence the controversial part). I think
the board should discuss this amongst themselvers at the very least,
and probably with the e.V. at large.

Again, and I think I speak on behalf of the promo team on this, I
would love to help you guys out and give some publicity. We all love
the hard work of the Oxygen team and know how some are definately on
the 'starving hackers' list.

Concerning the use of the KDE logo, this is a legal matter as much as
a promo thing, and again something the board can decide on

Sebastian Kugler goes over official press release stuff.

This question, and both other ones, prompts me to assume this hasn't
been discussed in the board. However, Celeste is a board member? If
her being involved means the board has approved this I think it's
clear that the promo team is on your side, and the article below can
go in the usual dot que for publishing. I still don't understand the
questions, then.

Sorry for being less than completely positive about this - I'd love to
do everything I can to help KDE related business out. But I have to
think about the kittens errr other KDE contributors who should have a
say in this - directly or through the board..

So send this to the board, telling them you have the support of at
least me (and most likely the rest of the promo team) and get them to
approve it. We'll then do whatever we can to get you guys some
business.

Cheers,

Jos

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Björn Balazs |
Apliki<bjoern.balazs@apliki.de> wrote:
> Hi KDE-Promo-Team!
> 
> As you might know, Nuno and I have started an initiative to do usability-
> testing of all KDE-Standard-Icons to further improve the quality of KDE.
> 
> Now, as we as a company are trying to generate a business out of selling our
> testing services, we would be very happy if KDE could help us in marketing, by
> publishing a press release about this topic.
> 
> Celeste, Nuno and I have written down, what we think could be used for this
> purpose, see below.
> 
> Now my questions:
> 
> - We would like to publish this through our press distribution in a german
> version. Would this be OK for you and are we allowed to use the KDE-Logo for
> this?
> 
> - We would be very happy if you would release this story as an international
> KDE press release. Would you do so?
> 
> - Would it be possible to do a the Dot-Story out of this?
> 
> Of course you are free to make any suggestion concerning the content. Please
> address any communication to Steffen (steffen.essers@apliki.de), as I will be on
> vacation the next couple of days.
> 
> We are very thankful for any support by you!
> 
> Cheers,
> Björn
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Here comes the text...
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> Subject:
> KDE and Apliki cooperate for understandable icons
> 
> 
> Body:
> 20.8.2009
> 
> IT | Software Development | Open Source | Usability | KDE | Business |
> Berlin
> 
> KDE and Apliki cooperate for understandable icons
> 
> * KDE focusses on understandability. Also for icons.
> * The web-based Icon Usability Test of Apliki helps to understand
> the user.
> * The fast feedback from users assists the development.
> 
> Berlin, 20.8.2009: KDE 4 was a major milestone for the free project.
> A main drive in the development has been the desire of the community for
> a simple and understandable handling of the desktop. But no one rests
> here. Nuno Pinheiro, one of the main icon developer of KDE and
> engineering psychologist Björn Balazs together want to identify and
> optimize all KDE icons in need of improvement. "Thanks to the community
> and our Web-based Icon Usability Test, the days for incomprehensible
> icons are counted," says Björn Balazs, director for analysis, design and
> test at Apliki.
> 
> www.kde.org
> www.Icon-Test.com
> 
> 
> Nuno Pinheiro and Björn Balazs met for the first time personnally on an
> Amarok developers meeting in Berlin. Both have one thing in common.
> Their desire, that KDE does what it is supposed to do. And the user
> understand it.
> 
> They know that icons are an issue in the development, that is often
> accompanied by great uncertainty regarding the understandability. With
> the Icon Usability Test both are on the safe side, because they ask the
> users themselves, what they understand. Nuno Pinheiro instantly
> recognized the added value of the quick web-based Icon Usability Test of
> Apliki. Now they want to test the whole KDE standard iconset "Oxyen".
> 
> The first Icon test was already completed. More then 7,000 members of
> the community participated in the initial investigation. "We are
> overwhelmed by the onslaught. And we only need a maximum of 30
> participants for a scientifically accurate assessment for any icon. Of
> course, more help a lot in comparing different target groups", says
> Björn Balazs of the Psychological IT Consultancy Apliki. "Maybe it's
> because it only costs 4 minutes for the participants to subsequently
> save the search for a specific icon in KDE."
> 
> Further Icon Usability Tests for KDE will take place on a biweekly base.
> "With the Icon Uasbility Test, we not only receive feedback on the
> understandability of the icons, but also about any cultural differences
> in their interpretation," says Nuno Pinheiro. On the basis of these
> tests, he wants to develop localized icons, that help to make KDE to the
> desktop of choice in all cultures.
> 
> 
> *About KDE*
> KDE is an international technology team that creates Free Software for
> desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern
> desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office
> productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in
> many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia,
> entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE
> software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with
> ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE4's
> full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows
> and Mac OS X.
> 
> 
> *About Apliki*
> Apliki is Germany's first Psychological IT-Consultancy. Because products
> with the best usability do not help, as long as users do not want to use
> them, engineering psychologists work here to understand how products
> motivate their users. Hand in hand with usability experts and IT
> specialists Apliki works like a navigational system and avoids detours
> from the idea into a convincing (sub-) product. So Apliki advises IT
> vendors - psychologically sound and with years of experience: For
> simpler technology, which is verifiably more successful.
> 
> Kontakt
> Apliki GmbH & Co. KG
> Steffen Eßers
> Tempelhofer Ufer 1a
> 10961 Berlin
> Germany
> Fon +49 · 30 · 992779990
> Mail info@apliki.de
> Netz www.apliki.de
> 
> 
> --
> Björn Balazs
> Leitung Analyse, Design & Test, Gesellschafter
> __________________________________________________________________
> 
> Apliki ist Deutschlands erste Psychologische IT-Beratung. Da Produkte mit der
> besten Usability nichts nützen, solange Anwender sie nicht benutzen wollen,
> beschäftigen sich hier Ingenieurpsychologen auch damit, wie Produkte ihre
> Anwender motivieren. Hand in Hand mit Usability-Experten und IT-Spezialisten
> funktioniert Apliki wie ein Navigationssystem und vermeidet Umwege von der
> Idee hin zu einem überzeugenden (Teil-) Produkt. So berät Apliki IT-Hersteller
> - psychologisch fundiert und mit jahrelanger Erfahrung: Für einfachere
> Technik, die nachweisbar erfolgreicher ist.
> __________________________________________________________________
> 
> Bitte beachten Sie unsere neuen Kontaktdaten!
> 
> Apliki
> Psychologische IT-Beratung
> Tempelhofer Ufer 1a
> 10961 Berlin
> 
> Fon +49 · 30 · 99277999 · 0
> Mob +49 · 179 · 4541949
> Mail bjoern.balazs@apliki.de
> Netz www.apliki.de
> __________________________________________________________________
> Apliki GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRA 39114
> 
> Persönlich haftend:
> Apliki Beteiligungs GmbH, Berlin, AG Charlottenburg, HRB 104921
> vertreten durch: Steffen Eßers, Björn Balazs, Ilja Pavkovic
> 
> 
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