Krita at MWC

[Boudewijn Rempt]

I'll also do a blog entry on krita.org, but here's a short preliminary 
report.

Leinir and I went to Barcelona this week to show Krita Sketch at the Intel 
App Developer booth. The booth was pretty much perfectly placed, near the 
entrance of the whole show, at the entrance of the biggest hall, and we 
were at the entrance to the Intel booth...

Dan and I had shirts with the Krita mascot image done by Tyson Tan, and 
those were quite attention grabbing in all their cuteness! Pretty much 
everyone who saw the shirt had to smile! (Let's put those shirts on zazzle
and make a heap of money for the Foundation.).

Apart from some getting-started problems the demo's went well. We had a 
good story and showing the transform tool video Deevad had made in a tight 
loop got us lots of attention. Most people were impressed, really 
impressed. We did get a number of questions like "is that photoshop?", or
"are you really competing with photoshop?". The free software aspect 
didn't really grab anyone's fance, the free to download part amazed 
people.

This was the first time we have shown Krita outside the free software 
world, and it went quite well.

I pointed several groups of students at LGM in Madrid, they were really 
interested in that as well.

On leaving MWC on Thursday, I came away with several conclusions:

* a good Windows version is really important. I want to discuss that at 
the next Calligra sprint, since we have some technical problems there.
* krita can, at least as a demo, hold its own _outside_ the free software 
world. We can compete with the outside world, and we should show off more 
outside free software conferences like LGM and Akademy.
* an osx version would be nice, but was asked for only two times.

All in all, good fun and a good opportunity to make Krita better known.

Boud

Ps: Note that Intel sponsored the demo hardware and the time slots in 
their booth, and KO paid for our travel and accomodation.