[kde-promo] WSJ Strikeout and TypeHeads [LONG]

[Eva Brucherseifer]

On Friday 11 April 2003 04:22, cmiramon at nerim.net wrote:
> Christopher TenHarmsel <tenharmsel at staticmethod.net> a écrit :
> > I'm here, I'll help out anyway I can :)
>
> I think a good first step for the US would be to create a American KDE-Club
> for developpers, users and promotors. Then, you could do publicity to
> create sections for each US big city. The KDE-League has failed and I don't
> think there is today enough money to have a professional PR in the States.
> What we are missing is a grass-root organization.

This is an excellent proposal! The good thing is, you can get the users in 
that way. You get a direct backup. 

Another very important benefit from a local non-profit(!) organisation is, 
that you much easier can handle money. People give you money, because they 
know, that you are non-profit and that it will be spent the right way (in 
Germany the state then checks if the money was spent in accordance to the 
goals of the organisation). You will give them something back e.g. a 
newsletter, a pin if they visit a booth, or anything like that.

Actually it would be cool to have such an organisation in Germany also, 
additional to KDE e.V., since KDE e.V.'s goals are a bit different.

IMHO all this cannot be done in a centralized money, but rather distributed, 
because
- transfering money between countries is a pain
- you can collect money decentralized and also spend it decentralized
- there are no people who can actually do a central organization. If it should 
be KDE e.V. or the League we'd have to hire someone and I don't think this is 
what we want). Still KDE e.V. can be some kind of an umbrella organisation 
which approves local organisations to be supportive KDE groups. 


>
> In France, we have KDE-France, a non-profit organization with volunteers to
> staff Trade shows and answer journalists (we have not got many calls !!)and
> let David Faure, the official representative program.

Well, in Germany we use KDE e.V., but it might be possible that people found 
an extra user organisation in Germany. I'd definitly support such a thing.

>
> You don't need to be an expert, or a member of the 'mythical' core team to
> be able to 'sell' KDE, just to be passionate about it.

Indeed. If you are running a KDE booth on a fair, people will definitly 
recognize you as a KDE contributor. Most people don't know the internals 
anyways and they are glad if they can meet any KDE people in person. 

Greetings,
eva

>
> On the topic of our competition with Gnome, we just have to wait that
> Ximian venture capital money dries up and we will be on a equal footing and
> we will see who win.
>
> We can have more guerilla PR tactics. Stephane Renard has a good trick :
>
> - Get up early
> - Open your boss notebook
> - Insert a KDE-Live CD in the CDRom
> - Be around when your boss fire up its notebook, ready to explain him who
> it works.
>
> Cheers,
> Charles
>
>
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