[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-promo
Subject:    [kde-promo] KDE league, promotion material
From:       Eva Brucherseifer <eva () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-09 15:45:03
[Download RAW message or body]


thanks to the people who answered some of my questions about KDE League. At 
least I now have the feeling, that KDE League is more than a virtual bank 
account ;-)

On Friday 08 June 2001 17:29, David Faure wrote:
> 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.

I agree with you. But not only the very big companies, but much more the 
medium-sized ones. SUN will not go away from gnome neither will HP. But there 
are a lot of smaller companies that are looking for alternatives to windows. 
At the Linuxtag in Germany there are not only users but also a business 
congress (2 days) with a ticket which is quite expensive (450 Euro). These 
people will also be at the expo... I think we should have broschures to give 
to them. In this broschures we could present also technical details and show 
the people that KDE is really up to date in software engineering. This would 
be the same content a lot of developers already present in talks. Linuxtag is 
here only an example - I only now german expos, so that is my reference ;-)

I am no designer, but all I learned by now is, that if you want to make 
professional looking printed material, that you need more than just one 
computer as a coder does. And when it comes to printing you have to pay the 
printing itself anyway. So - if you want to produce something you need money 
in the first place. I think koffice should be used too, but only for examples 
to show it's present capabilities, but not for information material to give 
away. 

Tink - do you still have the material? That sounds very much like a good 
start. Maybe now the times are better than 2 years ago...  Actually I got 
some business cards as well. They were made for the CeBIT expo in Germany in 
March. The design is quite good, but the paper quality and the printing 
quality could be better - but better than nothing. 

For KDE Women we now got some financial support from nice people for our 
stuff, so we are out of the game for now and I am very happy about that. 

Greetings,
eva
 
_______________________________________________
This message is from the kde-promo mailing list.

Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on \
or temporarily stop your subscription.


[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]