Re: Showing facts that are hard to believe

On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Àlex Fiestas <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi there !
>
> First of all, for those who may not know me I'm NOT  a person you should
> listen when it comes to promo. I'm horrible at it.
>
> With that previous warning in mind... let's get to the point.
>
> Millions of people are using our software, we have the biggest deployments
> out
> there like Portugal, Brasil or more recently Munich. You may think that
> knowing these facts is enough to motivate collaborators, to make them
> understand that what they are doing have an impact into society but I'm
> afraid
> it is not.
>
> I have been having a few conversations with a wide range of collaborators
> and
> all of them agreed that they are doing KDE stuff because of the community,
> they
> don't belive that we are relevant. They are WRONG.
>
> So, I want to propose a series of posts that I CAN'T do and I CAN'T
> coordinate
> to show with pictures, videos, interviews (facts) all our deployments world
> wide. We don't necessarily have to aim only for big deployments, but also
> cases like the small company that is more productive thanks to our
> software.
>
> Let me stress that what we need are facts, interviews, videos, pictures...
> announcing these things won't work because well...  you know what they say
> "If
> I haven't seen it, then it doesn't exists" xD
>
> The Munich Linux guys are around Akademy, I'm going to approach them but
> should not do the actual interview... for our own sake xD
>
> So, what do you think? ramblings from a crazy developer?
>
> Cheerz !
>
>
>
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Hi,
I agree it's definitely a good point to show why people can be proud of
being part of KDE. It's something that we tend to forget about.. :)

Maybe it's obvious... ;) or not?

Aleix


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