[kde-community] A change of heart

[David Wright]

Yes, this platform offers a number of benefits over the current one(s), and introduces some basic marketing tools that I feel are badly needed.

Really though, the reason I am suggesting this is because as it stands the KDE 'community' is really a developer community, not a user one. That really needs to change if KDE wants to have more donations, for the obvious reasons. In fact, I was going to write a long piece about moving to a social network would attract young users etc, but this really is the key point. KDE presents a very corporate and stale image that is not inviting for users to participate in, or engage with. You are not going to get mass donations because there is nothing for a user to get emotionally involved with. 



Kind regards,

*David Wright*


> +1 for Reply-By-Email! Forum.kde.org's "anonymous" notification can
> depress users that are AFK...
> 
> On 25 August 2014 13:53, David Wright <david.wright12886 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I did send this originally to the kde-www address but I thought I'd send it
> > here as well for a bit of fun.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: <david.wright12886 at gmail.com>
> > Date: 17 Aug 2014 00:24
> > Subject: A change of heart
> > To: "kde-www" <kde-www at kde.org>
> > Cc:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I've been doing a bit of research lately on CMS's and stumbled across
> > http://commonsinabox.org/ which is basically a bundled buddypress plugin
> > which powers http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/ amogest other.
> >
> > Given the social nature of this setup, and the fact it is built upon
> > wordpress
> > (it is basically a set of wordpress plugins that have been tested together),
> > I
> > felt that this might be something that KDE might like to take under
> > consideration?
> >
> > A standard install would include forums, groups, collaborative docs, social
> > @
> > mentions, user profiles etc, etc.
> >
> > Also, using the multi user aspect of wordpress it would still allow certain
> > projects to keep their identity, but remain under the networks umbrella, as
> > evidenced by: http://helpwanted.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
> >
> > Naturally, being exposed then to the wordpress plugin ecosphere would allow
> > then a better integrated events management, job board, even a store if
> > desired.
> >
> > Ultimately though, the goal is to increase funding. The KDE websphere is too
> > spread out, and this would help reign it in so we can really do focused
> > funding campaigns on users. That would be the advantage of the groups, as we
> > could tailor funding drives to particular interests and hopefully have
> > better
> > success.
> >
> > Administration might also be made easier as we could get rid of a fair few
> > subdomains by moving to this kind of platform.
> >
> > Anyway, it's late, and I'm jabbering. Let me know what you think!
> >
> > :-)
> >
> > ps
> >
> > There is also a buddypress app that could be rebranded:
> > https://github.com/yuttadhammo/buddydroid
> >
> > Mozilla were also working on bugzilla intergration a while back:
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643570
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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