Re: About the terminology...

2011/4/25 Ingo Klöcker <[email protected]>

> 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
>
>
Just created a wiki page based on the discussions we had at the Promo sprint
about this: http://community.kde.org/Promo/Guidance/GlossaryOfTerms

<http://community.kde.org/Promo/Guidance/GlossaryOfTerms>Definitely still a
work in progress to please feel free to go and clarify things or add
definitions to any of the numerous things we didn't fill in yet.

-Justin


>
> 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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