Re: 15th KDE birthday

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Sandro Andrade <[email protected]> wrote:
> What do you think ? We are trying to do something different at
> Latinoware's KDE booth.
>
> http://imagebin.org/177503
> http://imagebin.org/177504
>
> --
> Sandro
>

It's pretty cool. I don't get what the person is holding.

I like "15 years" next to KDE better than on the cap. Wonder how it
would look in Kabel typeface (such as KDE is)...sample attached.

Carl

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