Re: 15th KDE birthday

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Sandro

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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