[Owncloud] Re: Time to reach out to other projects?

[Aaron Reichman]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Matthew McKeen <mmckeen at ucla.edu> wrote:

> On Friday, July 29, 2011 10:39:24 PM Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> > On Jul 29, 2011, at 10:28 PM, Matthew McKeen wrote:
> > > On Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:33:02 PM Cornelius Schumacher
> wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 28 July 2011 Robin Appelman wrote:
> > >>> But we do have to make sure we don't become a KDE only app
> in
> > >
> > > the eyes
> > >
> > >>> of
> > >>> the (potential) users and developers.
> > >>
> > >> "KDE" is the community. There is nothing like "KDE-only". That's
> where
> > >
> > > a lot
> > >
> > >> of marketing effort went and is still going, to make the shift from
> > >> KDE,
> > >> the desktop enviornment, to KDE, the community. So we are
> actively
> > >
> > > fighting
> > >
> > >> this misconception of KDE applications only be runnable on a KDE
> > >
> > > desktop.
> > >
> > >> This is not the case for desktop applications, and it's of course
> also
> > >
> > > not
> > >
> > >> the case for ownCloud.
> > >
> > > Does anyone feel like making the podcast email rounds, at least
> once
> > > we do release the beta?  A spot/mention on the likes of LAS, Linux
> > > Outlaws, TLLTS, or even Floss Weekly would do great things for the
> > > project.
> >
> > definitely!
> >
> > Do you volunteer?  ;-)
>

I'd like to volunteer to be a media contact. Marketing & PR are where my
strengths lie and I'd rather let coders spend their time coding than doing
things others can do. With an @owncloud.org email address I'd even look
official.

Also, I've been here since the initial announcement by Frank and I'd love to
see this grow to the scale I know it can. We're pushing forward at an
incredible pace right now and part of our challenge will be growing our
community to keep up with our code base. The new website that's in progress
will definitely help and getting something written for the various
linux-centric outlets can only be good for us.

Can't wait for the 2.0 (and many more) releases!

Aaron

> >
> >
> > Frank Karlitschek
> > karlitschek at kde.org
>
> I might, for LO and LAS.  We should get a good form email together.
>
> -Matthew McKeen
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