Re: Application letter

On 2011-03-16 Lukas wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> I do develop PHP, as I wrote in my first letter, and NetBeans for PHP
> is my best choice of IDE (you must try 7.0beta, if haven't yet).
> 
> As I see your points, my point of view is a bit different. Having ALL
> software in-house is not a must-have. None had gave up on windows,
> just because Skype is not made by MS, nor OS X, since MS office for
> Mac is not made by apple. Its mostly otherwise - people likes Win,
> because most custom software can work there, likes Mac's since they
> are capable with most popular office formats.
> 
> By promoting any family FOSS stuff I see a perfect place to get the
> best synergy effect by taking the best of what is available.
> Especially then there is not a single corporation (with close to
> unlimited funding), that could take care of 100% tools needed by its
> users. From the other end, its very unlikely, that even such
> projects as Apache or Eclipse could launch wide scale promotion
> campaign alone. Its just too expensive.
> 
> Some might consider not finding clear line where DE responsibility
> ends and distributions starts as a problem. But if take DE's as a
> bridge, joining as much FOSS products as possible. If someone would
> try count, how many Linux end users uses KDE or Gnome - it probably
> would be more than 95%. Nobody says, we can't unite marketing teams
> from DE's and OS’s.
> 
> 
> The idea of promoting KDE to web developers is just one of the
> possible ways to promote FOSS to wider audiences, but that's another
> topic.
> 
> 
> P.S. Does promo has funding available for promotions/adds/freebies
> etc? If so, what was the approximate budget in the previous years
> risen?
It does not.

In general, if you are serious about making a difference, a do-it 
attitude works better than a talk-it. Ideas are cheap - we all have more 
ideas on what to do than time to execute them. If you want to do 
something KDE webdeve related, just start doing it. Maybe others have 
time to join you, maybe not. Brainstorming on the subject brings quite 
little value - while plenty of people will help you brainstorm, few will 
actually have time to contribute anything ;-)

I'd recommend to pick a small thing that will obviously bring KDE closer 
to webdevelopers and do it. Writing an article about what KDE has for 
webdevelopers will help more than 100 threads on this ML, for example 
;-)

The LiveDVD idea is not bad at all, if it gets picked up it might be a 
nice tool. Or - do something for the websites of KDE to get web 
developers involved. Anyway, as I said - ideas are cheap, we've got 
plenty :D

Cheers,
Jos

 
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