Re: Video ad for kde - Code in

2010/12/20 Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]>:
> On Sunday 19 December 2010 18:58:54 Jorge Salgueiro wrote:
>> I would like to point out that this is a new video ad, not the first
>> one. So please give your thoughts about this new video.
>> And Nikolaos your input is important, constructive criticism like
>> yours is always welcome ;)
>
> Ok, so re http://dl.dropbox.com/u/910264/adfirst.mpg
>
> Well, it is beautiful as a video :-) However, I have some reservations about
> it as an advert.
>
> We need to think here about who we are, who we want to be and who we want to
> appeal to. So in this video we have some guys doing something with computers
> (they're the KDE people, right) and then we have some girls because they are
> elegant/beautiful etc? Or did I misinterpret something?
>
> I don't really like that ;-) It just gives me some of these messages:
> - The real work in KDE is done by a bunch of guys
> - Girls are nice and can be used in symbolism, but are not doing awesome in
> KDE
>
> And sure, I know our community is 90% male (or whatever) but wouldn't it be
> nice to change that?
>
> So say I'm a girl and a see this. What would inspire me to be a part of KDE or
> even think I *could* be a part of KDE? Maybe I can become a KDE dancer and
> wave some pom poms as a cheerleader at KDE events? That's not the message I
> want to send.
>
> I appreciate what you are doing and you clearly have a lot of skills that we
> can put to very good use - so I hope you see this as constructive :-) But how
> about having a few girls as part of the KDE team - or even a few guys as part
> of the symbolism of elegance and beauty (i do actually quite like that
> symbolism by the way, it is quite clever). There are some other tag lines that
> could come in to relate to that - things along the lines of KDE moving
> together or remarkable things happening when we all work together.
>
> Cheers,
> Stu
>
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Agree with gender point. Maybe you could put women on the kde part of
video (even in a new more women doing kde scene). Cheers
 
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