[kde-community] A change of heart

Wed Aug 27 11:07:23 BST 2014

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:43 AM, David Wright
<david.wright12886 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.

In regards to the forum, we already have one at forum.kde.org and it
is quite active.

I have examined the forum solution they suggest using - bbPress - and
it is much less featureful than our current forum software, phpBB.
In addition it does not support nested forums, which we are quite
dependent on to organise content (we have 51,203 topics with 244,596
posts at the time of writing this email). It is also questionable
whether our Sphinx powered RSS feeds could be adapted to work under
BuddyPress.

Further, there are likely social problems with being a hoster for
everyone's blogs (which is why it is planetkde.org not planet.kde.org)

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> Kind regards,
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> David Wright

Thanks,
Ben

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> On Monday 25 Aug 2014 14:32:33 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
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>> +1 for Reply-By-Email! Forum.kde.org's "anonymous" notification can
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>> depress users that are AFK...
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>> On 25 August 2014 13:53, David Wright <david.wright12886 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > I did send this originally to the kde-www address but I thought I'd send
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>> > here as well for a bit of fun.
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>> > Kind regards,
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>> > David
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>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
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>> > From: <david.wright12886 at gmail.com>
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>> > Date: 17 Aug 2014 00:24
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>> > Subject: A change of heart
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>> > To: "kde-www" <kde-www at kde.org>
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>> > Cc:
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>> > Hi guys,
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>> > I've been doing a bit of research lately on CMS's and stumbled across
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>> > http://commonsinabox.org/ which is basically a bundled buddypress plugin
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>> > which powers http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/ amogest other.
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>> > Given the social nature of this setup, and the fact it is built upon
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>> > wordpress
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>> > (it is basically a set of wordpress plugins that have been tested
>> > together),
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>> > I
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>> > felt that this might be something that KDE might like to take under
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>> > consideration?
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>> > A standard install would include forums, groups, collaborative docs,
>> > social
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>> > mentions, user profiles etc, etc.
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>> > Also, using the multi user aspect of wordpress it would still allow
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>> > projects to keep their identity, but remain under the networks umbrella,
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>> > evidenced by: http://helpwanted.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
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>> > Naturally, being exposed then to the wordpress plugin ecosphere would
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>> > then a better integrated events management, job board, even a store if
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>> > desired.
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>> > Ultimately though, the goal is to increase funding. The KDE websphere is
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>> > spread out, and this would help reign it in so we can really do focused
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>> > funding campaigns on users. That would be the advantage of the groups,
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>> > could tailor funding drives to particular interests and hopefully have
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>> > success.
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>> > Administration might also be made easier as we could get rid of a fair
>> > few
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>> > subdomains by moving to this kind of platform.
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>> > Anyway, it's late, and I'm jabbering. Let me know what you think!
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>> > :-)
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>> > ps
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>> > There is also a buddypress app that could be rebranded:
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>> > https://github.com/yuttadhammo/buddydroid
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>> > Mozilla were also working on bugzilla intergration a while back:
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>> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643570
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