Community (Was:Re: Re: Curry tonight (sprint attendees))
Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.events |
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| Organization | KDE |
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Hey, On Saturday 07 May 2011 15:41:11 Carl Symons wrote: > On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Stuart Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's at Kohinoor at 8pm: > I appreciate the little glimpses of what's happening at the Sprint. > With this one, I imagine mango lassi, good food, and great > conversations. Hehe, I hope so :-) Just a shame we're missing you and some other peeps. > There was a show at Western Washington University yesterday where I > organized the Bellingham LUG participation. It's an event that we > helped get started several years ago. My netbook with KDE was a hot > topic. Especially the students were quite drawn to the appearance and > operation (no window decorations ++good). Cool, we're at the point now where our stuff does indeed look cool. People often ask me if I'm running a mac or something. > The CIO of WWU came by as the event was organized by the Student Help > Center that's part of his organization. He told us that the technology > was interesting, and that students, in particular CompSci and > ElectEng, are drawn to F/OSS technology. Then he said something that > is pertinent to KDE promotion and marketing...F/OSS is interesting, > and has produced some excellent technology, but the main thing that we > should be talking to WWU students about is the _community aspect of > F/OSS_. It's not readily available elsewhere, and is what he and his > WWU colleagues find most compelling about F/OSS. Yep, absolutely. We were in fact discussing the website today and trying to put that more in the centre (among other things). I think we are heading the right way, but we should do some more of that. So, how do we do it? Cheers, Stu -- Stuart Jarvis KDE Marketing Working Group, Promotion Team and KDE.News Experience Freedom with KDE http://www.kde.org/ _______________________________________________ This message is from the kde-promo mailing list. Visit https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-promo to unsubscribe, set digest on or temporarily stop your subscription.