Re: News about KDE

On Thursday 09 December 2010 04:53:03 Justin Kirby wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Oriol Mirosa <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > Today I came across a three-month old article by Bruce Byfield titled "7
> > Things
> > You Can Do in KDE But Not in Windows". As I was reading it, I thought
> > that it
> > was interesting and that I would like to forward it to some people, and I
> > wished that I had found out about it when it first came out. That led me
> > to thinking: do we have any established way of tracking and
> > disseminating news about KDE? Is there anybody taking care of this? Is
> > this something that, given
> > current policies, could be done through facebook, twitter, etc.? If the
> > answer
> > to these questions is 'no', do people think this would be worth spending
> > time
> > doing, and would you have any suggestions about how to go about this?
> 
> I don't personally know of anyone aggregating these types of articles on a
> consistent basis but it seems valuable to me.  I think potential areas for
> distribution of summary stories about such KDE articles could be:
> 
> * a regular spot on the Dot, say maybe a weekly or monthly report that
> covers what the wider open source community is saying about KDE
> * regular blog posts summarizing these things on the planet
> * submission of these summary stories to some other news source such as
> prominent 3rd party open source web sites, our KDE facebook page, linkedIn
> group, kde forums, etc.
> 
> In short, if you have the time, I'd say it'd be fantastic to have this
> information aggregated and posted somewhere on a regular basis.  If you
> don't have the time to take care of it personally I'd say you should at
> least add it as a task item on the wiki (
> http://community.kde.org/Promo/Get_Involved/Jobs) so that someone else
> might pick it up and run with it.
> 
There should also be a link from kde.org website to a page listing such 
articles, so that potential users can find them easily.

Anne
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