Re: KDE Booth setup advice

Awesome Heath.  Keep up the good work.

Cheers,

Elcaset

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:19 PM, heathmatlock <[email protected]>wrote:

> I'm wanting to promote KDE at a local even that takes place in my
> hometown of Florence, AL. The event is called First Fridays, and here
> are the guidelines:
> http://www.firstfridaysflorence.com/guidelines.html
>
> The mission statement is:
> "To provide an event for artists, representing all forms of the arts,
> as a vehicle for public awareness in a community that celebrates the
> arts. Also to provide an atmosphere that promotes the vitality of our
> downtown shopping district as a whole."
>
> The second part can be taken as this event promotes business in that
> area since people will be walking, not driving by the locations and
> having time to look into what local businesses are doing. So, it
> doesn't affect the booth, the first sentence, however, is of interest
> to me and I'm guessing this group for related events. I can easily
> show how the graphic design tools are of immediate importance to
> artists, that's not a problem, but how can you effectively promote KDE
> as an art? What is it about KDE that is so elegant and beautiful and
> how do you approach others with this info?
>
> I was planning on tackling this from the point of view that the
> desktop is aesthetically pleasing. The emotions that are incited while
> using such a system are similar to those that can be had from well
> designed traditional artwork; and for programmers, a similar feeling
> is also had from writing and using the underlying elegant algorithms.
> From an economic standpoint, since it seems this is something of
> importance, a KDE based linux distro most likely improves efficiency
> in and out of the workplace since the user isn't bogged down malware,
> spyware, trojans, etc. KDE's activities manager makes KDE one of the
> most flexible and efficient computing environments in and outside of
> the workplace as well.
>
> I've been brainstorming ideas in #kde-promo on freenode, and I'll keep
> everyone up-to-date on the progress of this endeavour.
>
>
>
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> Heath Matlock
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