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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: Yet unannounced Plasma TV UI project
From:       Paul Brown <paul.brown () kde ! org>
Date:       2020-03-23 15:18:05
Message-ID: 12537968.dW097sEU6C () rachel
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Hello,

As it turns out, the discussion about the name of the product is premature at 
this moment, as the product itself is not ready for release, at least not 
officially as a KDE product, with its dot article and posts through the official 
KDE social media accounts.

The product uses proprietary Google technology so, as it stands, it would not 
pass the FLOSS smell test and can be seen by people outside our orbit as a 
front-end to Google spyware.

We already had quite a bit of (unjustified) negative press regarding the 
telemetry options shipped with 5.18. If we make an official announcement about 
this product now, it would be further proof for the anti-KDE crowd that we are 
sliding down the slippery slope of spying on our users.

My recommendation is this: the developers make it a blog post, the blog post 
can go through the planet  and Promo can echo it, re-tweet it, boost it, or 
whatever, explaining that this is a project that is WiP. This will still 
attract the intention of users and companies who are interested in these kind 
of things.

I would also recommend that the blog post include the information about the 
Google back-end explicitly and clearly, explaining how this is a temporary 
solution, and information about how developers intend to solve this problem 
down the line.

When the product manages to remove the Google back-end and uses, for example, 
Mozilla's voice data, we can confidently make an official announcement via KDE's 
own outlets and not have to put up with any blowback.

Cheers

Paul
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