<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Looking at the responses and thinking in terms of general marketing, I think something along the lines of:<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">* Open Source</div><div class="gmail_msg">* Cross Platform</div><div class="gmail_msg">* Organizing (tags, geotagging, face-detect, etc)</div><div class="gmail_msg">* Scales (<100k items, no problem)</div><div class="gmail_msg">* Built by photographers (this may be on it's own line/section - but I feel it's important so that folks realize it's created/maintained by people like them).</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br></div><div class="gmail_msg">Speaking of "built by photographers" - Do we have any headshots or images of the principal devs on the project? Gilles? Can we put a face to the project? :)</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br></div><div class="gmail_msg">pat</div></div><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 4:18 PM Simon Frei <<a href="mailto:freisim93@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">freisim93@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I would definitely include that it scales very well with huge
collections.<br class="gmail_msg">
The rest is hard to put into flashy one-sentence sales pitches, as
it is lots of handy features around picture management. Alone they
don't sound overly impressive (flexible batch renaming, tagging and
flagging, metadata handling, ...), but being able to do that
seamlessly in one program/interface makes is really cool. Challenge
for the linguistically gifted: Convert that to such a one-sentence
advert :P</div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg">
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<div class="m_1993053415314578102m_-3590716935946166334moz-cite-prefix gmail_msg">On 31/03/17 22:43, Jack Marxer wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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<div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Free
Software</div>
<div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Works very
well on GNU/Linux</div>
<div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Handles a
large collection well (over 70,000 photos)</div>
<div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Batch
re-naming</div>
<div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Face tagging</div>
<div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Easy editing</div>
<div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Excellent
support</div>
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<div class="gmail_default gmail_msg" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Thanks again
to the creators and maintainers of this wonderful software!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:33 PM,
Gilles Caulier <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">- The 16 bits color depth support natively.
<div class="gmail_msg">- Fast photo adjustments in 3 clicks.</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">- Large amount of collection. Here more than 100000
items populate the database.</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">- Cross platform, even if OSX and Windows are not too
mature than Linux. At least, i pass a lots of time to
finalize bundles construction fully automatized.
AppImage is supported which is really a huge step for
deployment, when Linux distro only provide old version.</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">- This project exists since 2001, and is managed by
people who like to take photo.</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">- Metadata transparent workflow.</div>
<div class="gmail_msg">and more...</div>
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<div class="gmail_msg">Gilles Caulier</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">2017-03-31 20:17 GMT+02:00
NeiNei <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:neinei@gmx.net" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">neinei@gmx.net</a>></span>:<br class="gmail_msg">
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DigiKam is cross-platform (Linux, Windows, Mac)<br class="gmail_msg">
Best,<br class="gmail_msg">
NeiNei
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On 03/31/2017 07:11 PM, Mica Semrick wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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Greetings,<br class="gmail_msg">
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Please put on your marketing hats!/Can you
all share with us the top 5<br class="gmail_msg">
or so features of digiKam? We will list them
on the new home page.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Best,<br class="gmail_msg">
Mica<br class="gmail_msg">
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