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Subject: Re: KDE Promo Activities Report 3 - What's Going On?
From: Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman () gmail ! com>
Date: 2017-11-07 8:18:57
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Nice report, Ivana! Have you thought about also sending it to the
KDE-community list? It might help us find more promo people.
Valorie
On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Ivana Isadora Devcic <isadora@kde.org>
wrote:
> Hello, everyone!
>
> Another week, another KDE Promo report. :)
>
> This edition of the report is special in that we've now synchronized the
> reports posted on the mailing list with the ones posted on Planet KDE (
> https://quickfix.es/author/skadinna/).
> In other words, the posts on Planet KDE will no longer be lagging behind
> the mailing list. Yaaay!
>
> If you missed the previous report, don't worry: you can read it on Planet
> KDE (linked above) or here:
> https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=150651242524645&w=2
>
> So, what have we been up to in the past month, and which tasks do we offer
> to potential contributors?
> Let's have a look.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
> 1) Qt World Summit 2017 - Post-event analysis and discussion
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
>
> Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/T7315
>
> QtWS 2017 ended, and we are generally happy with our presence and
> activities at the event. However, there is always room for improvement.
> That's why we started a task on Phabricator to discuss what went wrong and
> what we could do better in the future.
>
> How you can help:
>
> + if you were at QtWS 2017 either as a visitor or as part of our team,
> please write your impressions on Phabricator
>
> + if you have any suggestions for what we can improve - not just at QtWS,
> but at other events where KDE has a presence - feel free to mention them in
> your comments.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 2) Organizing the KDE Promo Sprint
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This summer we ran a short survey to see how many people were interested
> in contributing to KDE Promo.
>
> If you're one of those people, we would like to meet you and work with you
> in person!
> And if you didn't take the survey, but you're serious about contributing
> to KDE Promo, you are more than welcome to join us.
>
> How you can help:
>
> + tell us where you will be traveling from and when you would prefer to
> attend the sprint so that we can pick the time and place:
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T7317
>
> + suggest topics and tasks that we should discuss and work on during the
> sprint: https://phabricator.kde.org/T7318
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 3) Preparing the End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Winter is coming, right? That means it's high time we started organizing
> the end-of-year fundraising campaign.
> Our Randa 2017 fundraiser reached 30% of its goal, so it would be great if
> we could achieve more in this one.
>
> How you can help:
>
> + join the kde-promo IRC channel/Telegram group and let us know that you
> would like to work on this
>
> + take a look at the KDE Community 2017 Highlight Reel -
> https://notes.kde.org/p/KDE_Highlight_Reel_2017 - and add important
> events we might have missed
>
> + write an article/announcement for the Dot about the campaign based on
> the highlight reel
>
> + read the linked email thread to learn how fundraising has been done
> before, and what lessons can be extracted from that experience:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-community@kde.org/msg01175.html
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 4) KDE.org Website Redesign
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/T6842
>
> Just a reminder that a major overhaul of the official KDE website is still
> in progress.
> The website will not only be visually redesigned, but will also switch to
> a new CMS (namely, WordPress).
>
> We haven't gathered a lot of new feedback since the last report, so if you
> would like to share your opinions and suggestions for the new website,
> please do so.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------
> 5) Beyond Promo: Voting on KDE Community Goals is officially open!
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------
>
> Phabricator board with all proposed goals: https://phabricator.kde.org/
> project/board/244/
>
> As you're probably aware, the KDE Community has been working on long-term
> goals for the past couple of months.
> With the proposals submitted and the review/discussion period over, now is
> the time to vote for the goals that you find most important for the
> community.
>
> The voting will be open for 2 weeks.
>
> If you're an active KDE contributor, you should have already received the
> information on how to vote.
> This is your chance to influence the direction in which the KDE Community
> will be moving in the future, so make sure to participate.
>
> ***********************************
> Reasons to Celebrate
> ***********************************
>
> Here's a small selection of wins, successes, and cool achievements from
> the last month. :)
>
> 1) KDE has a new patron - Private Internet Access!
>
> We reported on this, so you can read more about the partnership:
> https://dot.kde.org/2017/10/16/private-internet-access-becomes-kde-patron
>
> 2) Purism Librem5 campaign exceeded its funding goal!
>
> The crowdfunding campaign has succeeded, and then some - they managed to
> reach $1,500,000, which is fantastic.
> This means our partnership will proceed to the next level as agreed.
>
> We have supported the campaign with blog posts, Dot articles, social media
> posts, guerrilla marketing on Reddit, blasts to media outlets, etc.
> Many tech news sites have talked about our involvement as collected in
> task https://phabricator.kde.org/T6919, and the campaign success can be
> traced back directly to when we got involved.
>
> 3) KDE Community reached 51 000 followers on Twitter!
>
> The @kdecommunity Twitter account has recently reached 50k followers, and
> then another thousand soon after, which is great.
>
> What isn‘t so great is that Paul still has to manually collect all
> analytics data from social media – and he‘s been doing that for several
> months now.
> If you can recommend some tools that could help with automating this,
> please let us know in the Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/
> T6481
>
> ***
>
> And that's it for today's Promo report. We hope it helped you understand
> what we're doing and how you can get involved.
>
> Please let us know if you have any suggestions for improving our reports,
> and as always, feel free to send us your feedback. :)
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Until next time,
>
> Paul & Ivana Isadora
>
>
>
> --
> Ivana Isadora Devcic
> Promotion & Marketing, KDE.org
> @kdecommunity on Twitter <https://twitter.com/kdecommunity> || KDE on
> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/kde/>
>
--
http://about.me/valoriez
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<div dir="ltr">Nice report, Ivana! Have you thought about also sending it to the \
KDE-community list? It might help us find more promo \
people.<div><br></div><div>Valorie</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Ivana Isadora Devcic <span \
dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isadora@kde.org" \
target="_blank">isadora@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello, everyone!<br><div><br>Another week, \
another KDE Promo report. :)<br><br>This edition of the report is special in that \
we've now synchronized the reports posted on the mailing list with the ones \
posted on Planet KDE (<a href="https://quickfix.es/author/skadinna/" \
target="_blank">https://quickfix.es/author/<wbr>skadinna/</a>). <br>In other words, \
the posts on Planet KDE will no longer be lagging behind the mailing list. \
Yaaay!<br><br>If you missed the previous report, don't worry: you can read it on \
Planet KDE (linked above) or here:<br><a \
href="https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=150651242524645&w=2" \
target="_blank">https://marc.info/?l=kde-<wbr>promo&m=150651242524645&w=2</a><br><br>So, \
what have we been up to in the past month, and which tasks do we offer to potential \
contributors? <br>Let's have a \
look.<br><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>-----------------------<br>1) \
Qt World Summit 2017 - Post-event analysis and \
discussion<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>-----------------------<br><br>Phabricator \
task: <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T7315" \
target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/<wbr>T7315</a><br><br>QtWS 2017 ended, \
and we are generally happy with our presence and activities at the event. However, \
there is always room for improvement. <br>That's why we started a task on \
Phabricator to discuss what went wrong and what we could do better in the \
future.<br><br>How you can help:<br><br>+ if you were at QtWS 2017 either as a \
visitor or as part of our team, please write your impressions on Phabricator<br><br>+ \
if you have any suggestions for what we can improve - not just at QtWS, but at other \
events where KDE has a presence - feel free to mention them in your \
comments.<br><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--<br>2) \
Organizing the KDE Promo \
Sprint<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--<br><br>This \
summer we ran a short survey to see how many people were interested in contributing \
to KDE Promo. <br><br>If you're one of those people, we would like to meet you \
and work with you in person! <br>And if you didn't take the survey, but \
you're serious about contributing to KDE Promo, you are more than welcome to join \
us.<br><br>How you can help:<br><br>+ tell us where you will be traveling from and \
when you would prefer to attend the sprint so that we can pick the time and place: <a \
href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T7317" \
target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/<wbr>T7317</a><br><br>+ suggest topics \
and tasks that we should discuss and work on during the sprint: <a \
href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T7318" \
target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/<wbr>T7318</a><br><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---------<br>3) \
Preparing the End-of-Year Fundraising \
Campaign<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>---------<br><br>Winter \
is coming, right? That means it's high time we started organizing the end-of-year \
fundraising campaign. <br>Our Randa 2017 fundraiser reached 30% of its goal, so it \
would be great if we could achieve more in this one.<br><br>How you can \
help:<br><br>+ join the kde-promo IRC channel/Telegram group and let us know that you \
would like to work on this<br><br>+ take a look at the KDE Community 2017 Highlight \
Reel - <a href="https://notes.kde.org/p/KDE_Highlight_Reel_2017" \
target="_blank">https://notes.kde.org/p/KDE_<wbr>Highlight_Reel_2017</a> - and add \
important events we might have missed<br><br>+ write an article/announcement for the \
Dot about the campaign based on the highlight reel<br><br>+ read the linked email \
thread to learn how fundraising has been done before, and what lessons can be \
extracted from that experience: <a \
href="https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-community@kde.org/msg01175.html" \
target="_blank">https://www.mail-archive.com/<wbr>kde-community@kde.org/<wbr>msg01175. \
html</a><br><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--<br>4) \
KDE.org Website Redesign<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--<br><br>Phabricator \
task: <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T6842" \
target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/<wbr>T6842</a><br><br>Just a reminder \
that a major overhaul of the official KDE website is still in progress. <br>The \
website will not only be visually redesigned, but will also switch to a new CMS \
(namely, WordPress).<br><br>We haven't gathered a lot of new feedback since the \
last report, so if you would like to share your opinions and suggestions for the new \
website, please do so.<br><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>----<br>5) \
Beyond Promo: Voting on KDE Community Goals is officially \
open!<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>----<br><br>Phabricator \
board with all proposed goals: <a \
href="https://phabricator.kde.org/project/board/244/" \
target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/<wbr>project/board/244/</a><br><br>As \
you're probably aware, the KDE Community has been working on long-term goals for \
the past couple of months. <br>With the proposals submitted and the review/discussion \
period over, now is the time to vote for the goals that you find most important for \
the community.<br><br>The voting will be open for 2 weeks. <br><br>If you're an \
active KDE contributor, you should have already received the information on how to \
vote.<br>This is your chance to influence the direction in which the KDE Community \
will be moving in the future, so make sure to \
participate.<br><br>******************************<wbr>*****<br>Reasons to \
Celebrate<br>******************************<wbr>*****<br><br>Here's a small \
selection of wins, successes, and cool achievements from the last month. :)<br><br>1) \
KDE has a new patron - Private Internet Access!<br><br>We reported on this, so you \
can read more about the partnership: <br><a \
href="https://dot.kde.org/2017/10/16/private-internet-access-becomes-kde-patron" \
target="_blank">https://dot.kde.org/2017/10/<wbr>16/private-internet-access-<wbr>becomes-kde-patron</a><br><br>2) \
Purism Librem5 campaign exceeded its funding goal!<br><br>The crowdfunding campaign \
has succeeded, and then some - they managed to reach $1,500,000, which is fantastic. \
<br>This means our partnership will proceed to the next level as agreed.<br><br>We \
have supported the campaign with blog posts, Dot articles, social media posts, \
guerrilla marketing on Reddit, blasts to media outlets, etc. <br>Many tech news sites \
have talked about our involvement as collected in task <a \
href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T6919" \
target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/<wbr>T6919</a>, and the campaign success \
can be traced back directly to when we got involved.<br><br>3) KDE Community reached \
51 000 followers on Twitter!<br><br>The @kdecommunity Twitter account has recently \
reached 50k followers, and then another thousand soon after, which is \
great.<br><br>What isn‘t so great is that Paul still has to manually collect all \
analytics data from social media – and he‘s been doing that for several months \
now. <br>If you can recommend some tools that could help with automating this, please \
let us know in the Phabricator task: <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/T6481" \
target="_blank">https://phabricator.kde.org/<wbr>T6481</a><br><br>***<br><br>And \
that's it for today's Promo report. We hope it helped you understand what \
we're doing and how you can get involved.<br><br>Please let us know if you have \
any suggestions for improving our reports, and as always, feel free to send us your \
feedback. :)<br><br>Thanks a lot!<br><br>Until next time,<br><br>Paul & Ivana \
Isadora<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- \
<br><div class="m_3377460309423873232gmail_signature" \
data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div \
dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span \
style="font-family:garamond,serif">Ivana Isadora Devcic</span><br></div><span \
style="font-family:garamond,serif">Promotion & Marketing, </span><span><span \
style="font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="http://KDE.org" \
target="_blank">KDE.org</a></span></span><span \
style="font-family:garamond,serif"><br><a href="https://twitter.com/kdecommunity" \
target="_blank">@kdecommunity on Twitter</a> || <a \
href="https://www.facebook.com/kde/" target="_blank">KDE on \
Facebook</a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></font></span></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div \
class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><a \
href="http://about.me/valoriez" \
target="_blank">http://about.me/valoriez</a><br><br><br></div> </div>
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