Plasma 5 branding

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Fri Jun 6 11:58:38 UTC 2014


On Friday, June 06, 2014 12:07:06 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 12:33:43PM +0200, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > That leaves the marketing release names.  My best idea is Summer 2014
> > > etc so this release will be the Plasma 5 Summer 2014 release.  This
> > > may annoy our antipodean and south american users however.
> > > Suggestions welcome but we do need to make a decision toot sweet.
> >
> > 
> >
> > The marketing name is "Plasma". We want to avoid using the version number
> > as  much as possible, but if need be, don't introduce something new, but
> > use the technically correct version number -- anything else will just
> > cause major confusion.
> 
> So what's a good headline for this release will be Plasma 5 5.0 ?  Or Plasma
> 5 first release?
> 
> And the next version Plasma 5.1? Or Plasma 5 second release?

Something along the lines of "New Plasma Major Version Brings Kittens Dancing 
on Rainbows, Improves Fluffiness All Around" -- user benefits instead of 
version numbers.

As others pointed out, this needs a good discussion on the promo list.
-- 
sebas

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