From kde-promo Wed Jan 12 16:21:55 2011 From: Stuart Jarvis Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:21:55 +0000 To: kde-promo Subject: [kde-promo] Re: possible promo sprint? Message-Id: <201101121621.55558.stuart.jarvis () gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=129484936830951 On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 03:02:38 pm Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Justin Kirby wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm not sure if I was just talking directly with Stu about this or if it > > was on this list but the last promo sprint was in Oct/Nov of 2009. > > We're definitely due for another one. So who's game for meeting up in > > person to spend a long weekend (probably a Friday-Sunday) working on > > promo stuff? If we can get a group of motivated people to put an agenda > > together I'll submit a proposal to the board. Let's start with who's > > interested before we move on to what we'll be doing :) > > -Justin > > p.s. don't let money be the thing that prevents you from coming, we can > > get funds from the e.V. to help cover travel costs. > > I'm not sure I'm "qualified" to attend a promo sprint but I'd like the > promo team to consider other platforms. Twofold: Yes, we should discuss this, I added it to the wiki page Btw, if you are interested, please add yourself http://community.kde.org/Promo/Scratchpad/Sprint2011 > - Users. So far KDE has been used mainly by Linux users. It's also > widely adopted in the BSD desktop world, as small as it be. But what > about Mac and Windows? It's absolutely marginal there, which leads me > to... Windows we could do a lot better with, but thanks to some people like you there is some news at least. For Mac, I don't have a clue what is going on - some people at Akademy told me the situation is not bad, however, I've tried to sell KDE apps to Mac using friends and none of them have had any luck... > - Developers. If we can get even a small percentage of Windows and Mac > users, it may bring a good number of developers to KDE. With my > kde-windows hat on, I must say we badly need more developers, > especially packagers (in particular, people who maintain third-party > dependencies). Yep > Those are exactly the reasons I started the "Platforms" series in > BehindKDE. The first interview even got Slashdotted :-) Yeah, that was cool :-) Btw, did you find contacts for behindkde? I think Igo Malchow and Tom Albers are involved there... For getting those interviews advertised on the dot, just ping dot-editors@kde.org, preferably a few days before the interview goes live. Cheers, Stu _______________________________________________ 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.