[kde-promo] Stall Posters: KDE Dev Tools

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Andreas Cord-Landwehr
<cordlandwehr at kde.org> wrote:
> (please answer only to kde-promo)
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> Hey KDevelop people,
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> and hey people who know a lot about our development tools :)
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> I am currently working on some stall posters for the upcoming Qt World
> Summit. At [1] you can find the current draft for a KDE Frameworks 5 poster
> (also still in discussion). Another important poster for the audience there
> is a poster about all the awesome tools we offer in KDE to make development
> easier.
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> Here, you can find my current draft:
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> PDF:
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> https://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/phoenixx/kdepromo/kdevtools_poster_v1.pdf
> SVG:
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> https://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/phoenixx/kdepromo/kdevtools_poster_v1.svg
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> I am currently eagerly looking for some input to the poster content. Since
> time is running out, the poster should be finished at the end of this week
> to have it printed in time :/ (QtWS is in exactly two weeks)
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> Parallel to the content discussion, I am also discussing the layout/design;
> so you do not have to worry about the design, it will be updated soon.
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> For now my questions are:
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> * what is missing?
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> * what is wrong?
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> * what is not clear?
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> * does anyone have better screenshots?
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> Looking forward for your input,
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> Andreas
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> PS: for completeness, especially for the KDevelop list, please see my
> initial mail attached, which explains who the target audience for the poster
> is
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> [1] https://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/phoenixx/kdepromo/kf5_poster_v3.pdf
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> On Tuesday, August 11, 2015 10:10:50 PM CEST Andreas Cord-Landwehr wrote:
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>> Hey all,
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>> I would like to start a small initiative to update/create some stall
>> posters
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>> that can be used at KDE stalls. My main incentive is the upcoming Qt World
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>> Congress in about two months. (An excellent opportunity to increase KDE's
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>> visibility in the industry.)
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>> The following proposal hence focuses on that use case: posters for a stall
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>> at the Qt World congress. Specifically, the audience are developers, most
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>> of them know open source software, yet a lot work on commercial software.
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>> After several chats during Akademy, I have three posters in mind:
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>> 1. KDE Frameworks
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>> * what is KF5?
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>> * what does they provide
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>> - additional features
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>> - quality (unit tested, only reviewed commits, structured development)
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>> - LGPL2.1+ licensing
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>> * how are they structured (tiers)
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>> * important frameworks (mostly tier1 frameworks)
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>> * about 2 example frameworks in details (e.g. KArchive)
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>> (reasoning: conference audience is actual target audience for frameworks)
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>> 2. KDE Tooling
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>> * KDevelop
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>> * Massiv Visualizer
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>> * Okteta (?)
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>> * ...?
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>> (reasoning: most important applications for developers)
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>> 3. Plasma 5
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>> * focus on architecture and technologies (e.g. Wayland integration)
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>> * focus on different form factors (desktop <-> mobile)
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>> * present the cool fresh look of Plasma 5
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>> (reasoning: Plasma desktop alone is mostly interesting for developers
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>> already using it; hence focus on technologies, which can get more
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>> developers attracted)
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>> What do you think? What am I missing? What should not be included?
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>> Or do you see a much better approach?
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>> Depending on how much feedback I get, I will reach out (sooner er later)
>> to
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>> the frameworks list to get some detailed input about the specific
>> contents,
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>> before making some first drafts for the next discussion round.
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>> Cheers,
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>> Andreas
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Hi Andreas,
I think it's really cool that you're looking into this. Some (minor) things:
- Use the KDE logo [1], that one you're using was a proof of concept
and I know some VDG members are not fond of it. Also, it's not the KDE
logo. ;)
- there's some weird ".-" in the massif section.
- I would reduce the amount of text. It's a bit aggressive, if people
are interested in the tools, we can always have the people in the
stand explain it.
- Maybe someone from the VDG can take a look and suggest improvements?
I'm quite clueless about design (not saying that it's wrong).

Cheers,
Aleix

[1] https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=breeze.git&a=blob&h=e94af0a12b6d36cb37ff099f2dd1317ddbbe3799&f=icons%2Fapps%2F22%2Fkde.svg&o=plain