Re: About the terminology...

On Monday 25 April 2011, Dion Moult wrote:
> I don't believe in bothering to define "marketing", "promotion",
> "monopoly" etc. However I do think it's a great idea to make sure
> that the relevant main wiki page dedicated towards our own systems,
> like "Activities", "Promo-team", etc has a proper definition.
> 
> Here are a list of words off the top of my head I feel all users
> would be better off if they knew exactly what they meant:

While it's true that our users would be better off if they knew all of 
those words, IMHO our users really should not need to know the following 
words, i.e. we should only confront our users with the following terms 
if it's really necessary (e.g. in error messages were the exact terms 
are helpful for those of us doing support):

> Akonadi
> Strigi
> Nepomuk
> Virtuoso
> Soprano
> Phonon
> Xine
> Plasmoid
> KIO
> Qt
> Qt Quick


Only the following terms should appear in the normal UI and as such only 
those terms should need to be known by our users:

> Activity
> Widget
> Kontact
> Plasma
> Plasma Active
> Plasma Mobile
> Plasma Netbook


Regards,
Ingo


> On Monday 25 April 2011 03:08:34 Lukas wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Probably most of you noticed the trend of economical terms like
> > marketing, promotion, monopoly getting misused. Its visible in
> > FOSS
> > world<http://whilos.blogsite.org/?p=206>,
> > as well as in your personal life. Even KDE native terms, like
> > Activity, got bent by fellow developers.
> > 
> > My question, would it make any good to have a mini dictionary as
> > starting point, to make sure each of us is on the same page.
> > 
> > Are we, promo team, selling KDE, or not. Does marketing define only
> > traditional (boring) (press, TV) or Guerrilla Marketing also falls
> > into this term. Is a monopoly a company with
> > HHI<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl_index>above 2000, or
> > any company we don't like? Is it OK to discuss capitalism,
> > socialism, liberalism [any]ism, or any political/religion talks
> > shall be kept for your self. Especially when we have so many micro
> > religions, like favorite browsers, best Desktop Environment... :)
> > 
> > There are many schools talking about this area, and it could be
> > hard to agree on exact definitions, but at least basic clear
> > guidelines with do/don't list would be great.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Lukas

 
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