Re: KDE press event idea

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On Thursday 16 September 2010 11:24:33 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> For those that don't know me, my name is Alex Fiestas (afiestas), and
> currently working in BlueDevil (Bluetooth + KDE stuff), Kamoso (webcam
> application), and maintaining KTuberling.
> Also, I'm a member of KDE-España, the sister local organisation
> equivalent to KDE e.V.
> 
> The other day, I got an Idea, something I'm willing to do in Spain (with
> kde-españa), a Press Release.
> I guess it depends on the country, but here in Spain, do such things if
> you're a "small" project/company is quite important, since by doing it
> you got the attention of the local press, for instance I'm thinking on a
> magazine called "Computer Hoy" which is the best seller general PC
> magazine (aka: Almost windows only stuff). Also, I'm quite sure that we
> can attract some Tv's.
> 
> So, attracted by this idea, I started to think what we need to do such
> thing, and the list is not very long, since we're already doing a good
> job in the website (in the release notes), so, thinking about press
> releases I did in the past, we need:
> 
> 1-A "professional like" video, introducing new features and that kind of
> things, is quite important have a "background voice" explaining the
> goodness of our software, and why not of our community.

This occurred to me too actually. A video walkthrough of the software would be 
great. However, I don't have the skills to do this. It also needs to be kept 
updated.

> 2-A global/unified presentation, which should explain almost the same
> things as the video.

Yes. We have some kicking around but not a universal one. Though I suppose 
they always need a bit of adjustment for different audiences

> 3-Some flyers and documents "ready to be used" by those magazines to
> write they articles. If I have learned something from my experience in
> press releases, is that journalist are humans, humans are lazy, so lets
> do they work easier.

We do have some of these (some great little fliers that introduce KDE software 
and the community quickly). There is also work in progress on a booklet that 
can act as an introduction to KDE.

These should all live in http://community.kde.org/Promo/Material Anyone have 
idea where Eugene's cool KDE leaflets ended up?

> 4-Organized local groups willing to do that.
> 	-At least, I know of KDE-España, KDE-Brasil, KDE-Netherlands,
> KDE-Germany (e.V itself?).
> 
Pradeepto and the KDE India guys too. You also have North America and UK that 
can share stuff (and it's easy for us as a lot of stuff gets developed first in 
English anyway)

> Well, what do you think? do we have the man power to do the previous
> points? I'm missing something? etc etc etc?

3. is happening (in English). It should be made easy for local teams to adapt 
(and vice versa - the KDE booklet we're working on actually developed from 
something the KDE India guys put together)

2. it would be nice to have a generic presentation that people can use as a 
base. The difficulty is always not doing it once but keeping it updated

1. We need someone dedicated who can take this on.
 
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