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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Community building - Sprint recap
From:       "LukasT.dev () gmail ! com" <lukast ! dev () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-11-26 21:09:37
Message-ID: 492DBB11.4080901 () gmail ! com
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Cyrille Berger wrote:
> 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 !
>   
My opinion is that KOffice needs it's own forum. Sub-forum somewhere is 
not enough.
My 2 cents..

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