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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Speaking of the KDE league...
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-06-07 14:02:50
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On Thursday 07 June 2001 15:48, Eva Brucherseifer wrote:
> sorry, but after reading your answer, I am wondering, if KDE League is part 
> of the KDE community or if it is only a bunch of people who takes all the 
> money coming from big companies such as IBM, SuSE, Red Hat, etc. (I don't 
> expect this, but who knows...) 

Neither. The KDE League _IS_ the set of big companies that want to support KDE.

> Why are the people not subscribed to the mailing lists? 

What would an IBM/... executive care about our technical discussions ?
Or do you mean _this_ mailing list (promotion) ? I think it's easier for big 
companies to donate money than time.... They are on the kde-league mailing-list
but I don't expect them to be on more than that, for that reason.

> Right now I am in the organisation team for the KDE booth for the Linuxtag in 
> Germany, which is probably the biggest event for KDE, since KDE is _very_ 
> popular in Germany. So it should be possible, to get some money for 
> organizing this... But all people tell me is, "there is no money for making 
> flyers for linux expos, there no money for this, there is no money for that". 
> What happens to the money. I thought (maybe this was stupid) that KDE League 
> exists in order to provide promotion and promotion material.

It does. Rather, it is starting to. Up to very recently we had "potential members",
but none had paid yet, so... :)
Now that most companies have paid, apparently, we can get things rolling.

> Why don't KDE have professional posters and flyers (instead of these 
> home-made not very-colorful 300dpi ink jet prints). Why don't we have CDs to 
> sell? Where are the KDE t-shirts to sell? What about the marketing?

All those things you should discuss/suggest to kde-league-commitee@trolltech.com

As I see it, those things haven't happened before because there was no 
money AND nobody to care about that. Since there is money now, all that's 
missing is someone who takes the time to get those things rolling. If that
could be you (or anyone else on this list), then it'd be wonderful ;-)

> So, what happened already in the 6 months KDE League exists?
Waiting for the money, AFAIK :)

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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