Re: 15th KDE birthday

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 23:15, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 21:39, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 15th birthday Dot article done. text version attached.
>>>
>>> Please send suggestions or corrections.
>>>
>>> Still need awesome logo...any news? What should it look like?
>>>
>>> Carl
>>
>> Hey :)
>>
>> Looks good. One thing though: I believe it's not enough time to
>> organize good parties so I'd also offer other things that were
>> suggested in the etherpad:
>> * donate 15 Euros or more to KDE e.V.
>> * test 15 bugs and see if they're still relevant
>> * tell 15 people about why you love KDE
>> * spend at least 15 minutes on testing a program and filing bugs
>> * spend at least 15 minutes updating a few pages on userbase
>> * spend at least 15 minutes answering questions on the forum
>> * spend at least 15 minutes helping someone in #kde on freenode
>> * ...
>>
>> Those are things people can do without much coordination. If they do
>> parties that's of course awesome too.
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lydia
>>
>
> I intended to make those suggestions with the 14 October article in
> accord with Stu's mail from 19 September. It would work to do that now
> too, or at least open people's eyes to possibilities.
>
> Considering this just now, I think that it would work best to offer
> this kind of suggestion closer in to the 14th. 1- Set the stage now
> and get people thinking. 2 - Do a Dot story in a week or so offering
> such suggestions and inviting comments from people about what they
> plan. 3 - Do the 14 Oct Dot story as Stu suggested.

*nod* makes sense. I'd hate to see it as some sort of back-paddeling
though in the end. (ie we see that not enough parties are happening
and then decide to do something "easier" last minute.) So I think
hinting at this at least is a good idea. What do you think?

> I went through the donations process starting at kde.org. It seems
> clunky...multiple links on the targeted page that go to the same
> place. A direct link to PayPal in one spot with no setup for the jump.
> In another is this..."The preferred way to donate to KDE is by using
> our [PayPal-link] account.", and the link goes directly to PayPal
> again. It could be a lot easier for people to donate.

I've not looked at it but making the path shorter makes sense,
definitely. What would need to happen?


Cheers
Lydia

-- 
Lydia Pintscher
KDE Community Working Group / KDE e.V. board member
http://kde.org - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher

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