<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Paul,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the update on KDE’s marketing profile these days :-)<div class="">I went with Ivan’s suggestion as the recording was yesterday afternoon, but now I know what to say in the future!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any progress on the blog?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Do you need anything from me?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frances<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Jan 2021, at 17:37, Paul Brown <<a href="mailto:paul.brown@kde.org" class="">paul.brown@kde.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On miércoles, 20 de enero de 2021 12:30:31 (CET) Frances Tait wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Paul,<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Hello Frances,<br class=""><br class="">Sorry for not answering earlier. My email borked and I just got it back.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">An unrelated question: I’m writing a very short intro for our Kalle<br class="">Dalheimer and Ivan Čukić for a C++ audience and want to mention their<br class="">involvement in KDE. Is it accurate/ok to describe KDE like this (NOTE this<br class="">is already longer than I need it to be, and the audience may not even have<br class="">heard of KDE):<br class=""><br class="">"KDE, the free/open source, graphical environment project".<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">KDE used to be a synonym of that, but not anymore. KDE now describes the <br class="">community. And the community creates KDE the software, which is not only the <br class="">graphical desktop environment (which is now known as "Plasma").<br class=""><br class="">KDE does develop Plasma, the desktop, correct, but also a bunch of popular <br class="">apps, like Krita for digital artists; Kdenlive for video editors; Kdevelop for <br class="">developers; Okular for reading, annotating and signing documents (like PDFs); <br class="">LabPlot for data analysts; a full-featured web browser called Falkon; an <br class="">educational suite of activities for kids from 2 to 10 called GCompris; Kontact <br class="">for managing email, calendars, contacts, etc.; ... It is a very long list!<br class=""><br class="">KDE also produces frameworks that facilitate development. Probably the most <br class="">popular of which right now is Kirigami, that helps developers create software <br class="">that works on all kinds of devices, like computers, mobiles, TVs, car <br class="">infotainment systems, etc. But Kirigami is not the only framework either, but <br class="">Ivan will be able to fill you in better than me.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I wanted to emphasise the breadth of what KDE offers (not just desktop). If<br class="">you have something punchy and SHORT that’s better, I’d be very grateful.<br class="">SHORT NOTICE: I need it by this afternoon :-)<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">So, riffing off of Ivan's suggestion, maybe something like:<br class=""><br class="">"KDE, the Community that produces the biggest free and open source C++ <br class="">projects, ..."<br class=""><br class="">or something like that?<br class=""><br class="">Hope that helps.<br class=""><br class="">Cheers<br class=""><br class="">Paul<br class="">-- <br class="">Promotion & Communication<br class=""><br class="">www: <a href="http://kde.org" class="">http://kde.org</a><br class="">Mastodon: <a href="https://mastodon.technology/@kde" class="">https://mastodon.technology/@kde</a><br class="">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kde/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/kde/</a><br class="">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kdecommunity" class="">https://twitter.com/kdecommunity</a><br class="">LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde" class="">https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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