Re: 15th KDE birthday

What do you think ? We are trying to do something different at
Latinoware's KDE booth.

http://imagebin.org/177503
http://imagebin.org/177504

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Sandro

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Lydia Pintscher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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> Lydia Pintscher
> KDE Community Working Group / KDE e.V. board member
> http://kde.org - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
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