Re: Application letter

> > I'll try to contribute as much as I can, however my free time is a bit
> > limited as I still have to study, work and start my own business :). But
> > I bet most of you are in the similar situations, and it won't be a
> > problem.
> 
> Yep, it's a volunteer effort so no worries about this.
Great :)

> Awesome :)  Some of that will certainly be promo...depending on the scope of
> your UX ideas and what the focus of "making lives of everyone involved a
> bit more easy" that may need to be addressed elsewhere.  We have separate
> teams which can address user experience (in the software itself) or other
> groups if you're thinking of process related or administrative changes or
> something.  If you can expand a bit on those points we can surely point you
> to the right place to talk about them.

A few of those ideas are about how to make cooperation more productive. But 
let it for the future.

> Rules...hmm...be cool to people and they'll be cool to you and we'll
> continue onward together doing cool stuff to promote KDE? :)  I don't think
> there is much you should worry about beyond that in terms of rules.  However
> you might find it useful to have a look at our wiki where we do keep lots
> of useful information about all the things we're doing:
> http://community.kde.org/Promo/.  That'll help get you familiar with how we
> tend to operate and what we're already working on.
I'll take a look at there.


Going back to promotion, one of the forgotten user group is WEB DEVELOPERS

The size of this group is quite impressive. 

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ - the leading blog about java-script + 
HTML(5) + css - alone has more than 230 000 RSS subscribers, 310 000 twitter 
followers.
Zend Framework - one of the best PHP frameworks - over 10 000 000 downloads.
And these numbers are just the top of the iceberg. Think about Ruby/Python 
devs, even so called SEO/Facebook/social media experts can be addressed into 
this group.


Why are web developers so important?

Besides the user base, web dev's are one of the most active blogers around the 
globe - getting them as KDE/Linux user would not only increase OSS market 
share compared to the fruit company and MS, but also some extra quality 
tutorials and publicity. Juts google for both Linux/mac set up Apache, and 
compare look and feel of those tutorials. Not strongly, but Mac wins - more 
results in general, pages has more images, contrast etc. And its not 
surprising - Mac users are more often a professionals, making a living from 
how good they are at creating UX, while Linux - administrators, living from 
maintaining infrastructures. 

Also if it we could achieve a KDE - the choice of developers slogan to be 
accepted (similar to Mac-choice of designers) - it would be a big step of 
getting KDE widely accepted. Everyone wants professional tools ;)


What do we have?

Linux dominates the servers market - and having localhost server is a must for 
web developers. Despite Win can run Apache, if you want to develop for real 
world - working on the same infrastructure as the production environment is a 
big plus.

Git - as far as I know, Git on Win more or less sucks.

All major IDE's works on Linux - another must.

More control over your system - starting from bash, ending with custom 
packages management.


How to reach these people?

* Find all webdevs already using KDE and ask for they help, both pointing out 
the most annoying areas of KDE user experience, and bloging tutorials how to 
use one or another feature on KDE.

* Encourage KDE community to blog tutorials more suitable for Linux newbies. 
If you have ever googled for some problem about KDE/Linux, must likely you 
have found answer in a forum. Try to google for e.g. jQuery - and you find 
most solution in form of tutorial - Entire solution is in a single page, 
formatted to be used by all readers.

* Give freebies to the best post of the month etc. to encourage their 
involvement. Evey body loves freebies ;)

* Get those posts spread - like on Smashingnetwork Network Posts and similar.  
An easy way to reach the target user group.

* Collect best tutorials and share links/excerpts somewhere on kde.org - 
Kde.org has page rank of 7. Such listing would give better positions for 
valuable results in google, and create stronger links with KDE.

* Get repositories with packages preoptimized for development - e.g. PHP 
settings showing errors by default, Apache - mod_rewrite activated. On local 
host nobody cares about performance and security, but waisting time to get 
everything working is annoying. 

* Build KDE developer edition live image with SUSE studio and promote it's 
usage with Virtual Box. Make it small steps towards KDE. Its very unlikely 
many would simply wipe out windows and jump ahead to Linux.

* Talk to the creators of major developing tools/frameworks - Getting links to 
tutorials, how to set up working development environment, on their wiki's 
would attract some attentions of their users.


It's just a main points that came to my head, hope you can think more. It's 
not a small task, but I believe its doable. Especially if there would be 
someone with similar promotion experience???

And finally - a nice reading - http://www.getfinch.com/finch/entry/ux-is-
mostly-desirability/

 
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