Promoting GnuPG support for Okular and addition to Gpg4win

[Paul Brown]

On Monday, 22 May 2023 21:02:04 CEST Andre Heinecke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Or if you have KMail configured for S/MIME signed mail, you can now not
> > only sign your Mails but PDF documents with the same S/MIME setup.
> > Similarly if you have Outlook configured to do RESTRICTED compliant S/MIME
> 
> with
> 
> > our plugin, you can now sign documents, too.
> > 
> > Where previously this would have required different configurations.
> > 
> > > Yeah, or we could just enable a shared folder on Collaborate and dump
> > > stuff
> > > there.
> > 
> > I think we definitely need some screenshots or even a short video to
> > illustrate  the workflow. :)
> > 
> > A shared folder should not be required for the data, if I have to share
> > some larger data I can just upload into our infrastructure.
> 
> Could you point me towards the next steps, here?

Yes! Sorry. I thought I had answered the prior email, but obviously not. 
Must've got sidetracked.

My next steps are going to be take your text and 

1. Go over it, copyedit it, proofread it, make it into something that can pass 
as a press release

2. Distill it into what we can use in the dot, ie. something usually a bit 
shorter for a quick 5 minute read.

Then we will have three versions: one for the very technically adept, maybe 
the readers of the GnuPG blog, a version we can send to the press and tech 
blogs, and the other we will link to from social media (the dot) for more 
casual readers (which will contain links also to the other tow for readers who 
require more details).

> So my goal is a news item on gpg4win.org hoepefully with some help from KDE
> Promo and ideally a  dot.kde.org entry with some cross promotion with social
> media. I can get really excited about this. This is so fucking amazing,
> just two years ago I was unable to sign any document with Free (Open
> Source) Software. Then Okular came along with Mozilla NSS support and it
> was "meh" okay,.. sucks but somewhat works.
> 
>  Now I can declare my taxes etc. with only KDE Software in the frontend,
> with a nice and accessible user experience, with a stampy Icon and all that
> fluffy stuff. This is truly great. But I am unsure how to articulate it.
> Maybe some video call?
> 
> Totally brainfucked example of course but in my opinion (I am not a
> Lawayer)( this could mean that Germany could legally declare war on France
> but only if they both download Okular because that is the only Software
> that correctly handles brainpool ECC signatures to sign and verify the
> declaration of war. But which they both agreed upon is a legal form to sign
> documents.

Love that example, but maybe we should find something less controversial to 
hammer the message home. Maybe the opposite? Signing a peace treaty? Or the 
original charter of the EU? You know: "If the original founders of the EU 
needed to sign the charter now, the  best way to do that would be by using... 
blah blah blah."

> I am CC'ign some of my team to help me out here because I will be away for
> most of the week and we really need to get to a new Gpg4win release. 
> (aacid, sadly is not on my team,...... yet ;P) )

What we need form you folk is media. Images, explanatory illustrations, that 
video you mentioned, whatever. Without graphical media this story will not 
have the impact it deserves.

Once we have the story up on your site, our site, and delivered via press 
release to media outlets, we will do a social media series of posts to get it 
out also to the general public.

Does this sound okay to you?

Cheers

Paul
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