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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Community building - Sprint recap
From:       Cyrille Berger <cberger () cberger ! net>
Date:       2008-11-26 19:32:30
Message-ID: 200811262032.31121.cberger () cberger ! net
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Hi Alex,

On Wednesday 26 November 2008, Alexandra Leisse wrote:
> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
> QUOTE LYDIA PINTSCHER
> (AKA NIGHTROSE)
> ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
> Ok let's elaborate this a little. We clearly have the advantage of
> being a sexy project but there is more to it.
Well maybe that would make the difference :/ ... We can see that within 
KOffice too, krita (which is the sexiest apps with karbon) is attracting 
three to four times more developers than other applications... And I say that 
because all the points in what Lydia says are true for KOffice too... even if 
we lack a little bit of organization in some area (like junior jobs).

And really I think it's a lot about sexyness. Lets see about the exemple of 
the Desktop Shell, it's the most central place in a desktop environnement, 
yet, it was slowly dying in the KDE3 time, no one wanted to care or think 
about it, and yet plasma made is sexy again under the impulse of Aaron, even 
before there was actual code, he managed to attract people to think and work 
on the subject. The desktop shell was turned into a sexy apps, attracting a 
lot of people.

#But an office suite isn't sexy !" I think this is wrong, true, Amarok is sexy 
by definition, everybody (but my mom...) listen to music ! True, Krita is 
sexy by definition, everybody (even my mom ;p) likes arts ! True an office 
suite is about making boring work stuff. Which will makes our life very hard 
to show it has a sexy thing. It doesn't matter, if we can find a way to show 
that KOffice is *sexy*, it will attract people attention, and then, as long 
as we stay friendly, and keep sticking to the 8 points they will come and 
staty with us.

That is why I put a lot of value and hope in the work you are doing on KOffice 
marketing with Inge, to make it sexy !
-- 
Cyrille Berger
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