Re: Calligra announcement

Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.events
Message-ID <201012070913.32191.stuart.jarvis__10344.8487273001$1291713271$gmane$org@gmail.com>
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 07:52:33 Saleel Velankar wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The hot news for the hour is here:
> > 
> > http://dot.kde.org/2010/12/06/kde-announces-calligra-suite
> > 
> > The Calligra team is pumped.
> > 
> > Could someone here please do whatever is necessary for the news to get
> > wider play?

It's on the Dot - are you suggesting that it can get bigger than that? ;-)

> > Could there be an official KDE e.V. announcement?

It's a naming/coding issue and not really any of KDE e.V.'s business. I mean 
that in the nicest possible way - the independence of application teams from 
any central, overseeing body is one of the awesome things about KDE.

> > Are
> > there other news outlets for big stories like this one?

I would have thought an announcement on kde.org would be worthwhile, but that 
requires someone with and svn account and web karma. I would have expected the 
> 
> I suppose the next step is to push it to aggregators like reddit/twitter?

Yes! Please redent and retweet the news. I reckon our Reddit and Digg people 
will be on this already.

This will also, via the Dot, be popping up on Linux news sites everywhere in 
the next few hours.

In fact ITworld has a sensationalist and inaccurate story on it already that 
I'm about to comment on:
http://www.itworld.com/open-source/129859/the-end-koffice-the-end-kde

Cheers,
Stu
 
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