Re: OLF
Geoffrey Fannin <[email protected]>
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since there are to many names to write out on this thread at the moment I'll just say hey folks, Our group coming from Dayton has had a few scheduling conflicts we will all be there on Saturday morning but will most likely not be there on Friday or Sunday. So I apologize if that causes any issues. We are all still willing to staff the table but will need to know where it's located at OLF and who I or one of my fellow club members need to contact upon arrival. Thanks,Geoff Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:07:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [kde-promo] KDE for non-techies From: [email protected] To: [email protected] CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Jeff Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Henry, On 8/30/2010 12:07 PM, hbkeultjes wrote: > Jeff: > > If by chance you will be at Ohio Linux Fest, I would like to discuss > ways for non-techies like myself to get support so we can feel > comfortable switching to using more and more KDE components. I won't be there, sorry. Hi Henry, We will have folks at OLF staffing a booth. I am copying Klaatu, Geoffrey, and Mackenzie on this thread so you can coordinate together about a possible "KDE End User" oriented BoF. Personally I think this is a great idea and hope you all can make this happen. Let me know if there is anything else I can do to help! -Justin > My reply to the OLF 2010 announcements was a KDE BOF but sofar I have > not heard back about that suggestion. I'm not sure which OLF 2010 announcement you're referring to or who you contacted about a KDE BoF. I would suggest contacting the KDE Promo list at [email protected] about ideas for promotion and BoFs at OLF. > The problem, of course, is that the BOFs tend to attract highly > technical people, developer types, who seem to lack any kind of interest > in helping the end user. In my experience with BoFs this isn't necessarily correct -- the audience BoFs tend to attract depends highly on how the BoF is marketed, both in its description and the title of the BoF itself. A BoF entitled "Developments in KDE" will likely attract existing KDE users who want to see what's new, while a BoF entitled "Getting Started Using KDE" will likely attract those that are not existing KDE users but are interested in the idea. > That, of course, is a big shame because to me > the whole objective is to get end-users to use KDE. Considering my > qualifications, if KDE cannot get to the point where it can use people > like myself to train others to use KDE, the whole cause may be lost. > > I look forwards to hearing from you. I've CCed the KDE Promo list in this reply -- that list would be the appropriate venue to discuss this kind of promotion activity. Thanks, Jeff _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription. _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.