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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Speaking of the KDE league...
From:       blackfarm <blackfarm () mountain ! net>
Date:       2001-06-08 21:52:29
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On Friday 08 June 2001 11:29, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 08 June 2001 17:10, Mathias Waack wrote:
> > On Friday 08 June 2001 16:02, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> > > The hopes is that we will have
> > > some form of US PR agency to attack the market.  $$$ is the
> > > question.
> >
> > PR agency? Market? $$$?
> >
> > KDE is the result of the hard work of hundreds of developers with the
> > help of thousands of users. Most of them had never seen a single cent
> > for her work. And now you are going to spend money to people just to
> > tell other poeple they should use KDE? What kind of result could we
> > expect? One, two or even more percent "market penetration"? Maybe.
> > More feedback and developers? From poeple who didn't heard about KDE
> > until now? Who could this be? Are you really interested in a bunch of
> > bug reports like "my internet is not working with KDE"? Where's the
> > gain for the KDE project?
>
> The primary goal is to attract _companies_ to use KDE as a development
> platform, and to distribute KDE with their stuff (have you seen that HP
> signed with Ximian to make Ximian Gnome standard all their next
> machine/unix/whatever it is ?). That's the kind of things we have to work
> on, getting this kind of deal with big companies, otherwise KDE will go
> nowhere (compared to its rival).
> Yes, I agree, it's not users we should target directly with the PR. But
> directing PR at companies is important.


Yes your a 100% correct with that one. We should be trying to attract 
companies to develop for kde. Maybe the league could advertise in the 
trade papers? One thing thats got to change is the terrible way that we treat 
commercial kde products. We should treat developers that choose kde as a 
platform much better. When the Kompany got imap support for aethera we didn't 
even see it on the dot. But a few weeks later a story was on there about 
kmail getting imap support. I hate the elitist snobby attitude that says if 
its commercial then we'll ignore it. Thats a big thing thats got to change. 

Craig
 
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