Re: Calligra announcement

On Tuesday 07 December 2010 09:13:31 Stuart Jarvis wrote:
> 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

Ah, reading the comments I see Oriol and Gerlos (don't know if the second is 
subscribed here) had already made a few corrections. Thanks guys :-)

Stu
 
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