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Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Showing facts that are hard to believe
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jos () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2012-07-23 11:01:41
Message-ID: 5339039.PHkFTkCnSq () linux-6upc
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On Sunday 01 July 2012 15:23:30 Àlex Fiestas wrote:
> Hi there !
> 
> First of all, for those who may not know me I'm NOT  a person you should
> listen when it comes to promo. I'm horrible at it.
> 
> With that previous warning in mind... let's get to the point.
> 
> Millions of people are using our software, we have the biggest deployments
> out there like Portugal, Brasil or more recently Munich. You may think
> that knowing these facts is enough to motivate collaborators, to make
> them understand that what they are doing have an impact into society but
> I'm afraid it is not.
> 
> I have been having a few conversations with a wide range of collaborators
> and all of them agreed that they are doing KDE stuff because of the
> community, they don't belive that we are relevant. They are WRONG.
> 
> So, I want to propose a series of posts that I CAN'T do and I CAN'T
> coordinate to show with pictures, videos, interviews (facts) all our
> deployments world wide. We don't necessarily have to aim only for big
> deployments, but also cases like the small company that is more
> productive thanks to our software.
> 
> Let me stress that what we need are facts, interviews, videos, pictures...
> announcing these things won't work because well...  you know what they
> say "If I haven't seen it, then it doesn't exists" xD
> 
> The Munich Linux guys are around Akademy, I'm going to approach them but
> should not do the actual interview... for our own sake xD

And you can do interviews. We'll happily fix the damage :D

Or at least ask them if they're OK with publicity and give someone their 
details. 

If you know of deployments, PLEASE... let us know!

> So, what do you think? ramblings from a crazy developer?
> 
> Cheerz !
> 
> 
> 
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