[Kde-pim] [kde-promo] Marketing, KDE PIM and You

[Jos Poortvliet]

Ping.

Wome of the ideas on
http://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Meetings/Osnabrueck_8#Marketing_Meeting
are really good. Unfortunately this thread has died out, I'd like to
restart it with this mail.

I vote for an 'eat your own dogfood' campaign asap :D

Cheers,
Jos

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (Sorry, forgot to add promo-team to recipients first time around)
>
> Hi,
>
> One of the topics of the recent Osnabrueck meeting (dot article on the way)
> was on marketing KDE PIM, how KDE PIM fits into the rebranded kde, what we
> can do about the image and perception of the community and the applications
> around KDE PIM.
>
> http://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Meetings/Osnabrueck_8#Marketing_Meeting
>
> Some of the action items on the list are
>
> * Get some social networking groups like facebook, twitter and linkedIn
> started. We need to figure out how to string them together and update them
> with interesting stuff. I'll write a blog asking for an interested user to
> take responsibility for the accounts so that we can feed them snippets and I
> don't have to learn how it all works :).
>
> * People of KDE PIM series. It's been a while since I've seen a People of
> KDE PIM article. Assuming the problem is lack of articles to publish, we're
> going to put together a few of them and send them to blauzahl. The questions
> are always the same, so I'll post the question list and poke people to
> answer them.
>
> * Getting videos onto youtube. There is already information on techbase on
> how to create videos. I'll try to poke people a bit to make them. Open
> question is whether to use the kde youtube account or set up a kde pim one.
> I'm for the former. I could probably get some of the videos I've made before
> onto youtube if I had an answer to some of the mysteries of this one.
>
> * Contact journalists with links to information about the cool stuff we're
> doing. Martin Feilner was receptive of the links we've already given, and we
> can keep that up, and can consider making more paths to users in that kind
> of direction.
>
> * Make sure the kde marketing people have information about what is going
> into releases. tokoe to check the existing content of the release
> announcement and feature guide in re kde pim and particularly kaddressbook
> and help updating it if necessary.
>
> * Make sure packagers can easily discover how to correctly configure their
> platform so that kdepim/akonadi can work flawlessly. Configuration errors
> are often the first contact users have with kde pim and that reflects badly
> on what we are creating. tokoe to create a README.packagers and toma to
> point kde-packagers to it.
>
> * KDE PIM welcome dude. When we have a new contributor to the mailing lists
> we should have someone who will serve as a sort of "mentor" to guide the new
> contributor around the bewildering amount of stuff going on, tools etc. The
> wiki says tom, but I thought that was to be Thorsten. *shrug*.
>
> Another item which was not on the list is "get feedback/pointers/ideas from
> the kde promo folks". So, any thoughts?
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
> Steve.
>
>
>
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