Re: Dot article for PMC 0.9 release

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are planning to do the first ever release of Plasma Media Center [1]
> soon, and have written a small draft announcement. It will be very nice if
> you guys can do a quick review and let us know what stuff can be improved :)

I will do it. Perhaps others will have feedback too.

Best guess for when the planned release will happen?

Why is there a Plasma Media Center when we already have so many
similar applications?

Look at this from the user perspective...so what? Why should users be
interested in this?

What gets you excited about PMC? Why have you worked so hard on it?
What inspires you about it?

Don't worry about adding this sort of stuff to the story. But it would
help create an inviting announcement to know what's driving the
project.

More later.

Carl

>
> Here is the draft
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yKJheK6UBH0-h_q6KC_XSJSmD0QJiG3JU24bdBkiUp0/edit
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> [1] http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_Media_Center
>
> --
> Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
> http://www.shantanutushar.com
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey!
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions, I realized how developer centric it was.
>> Please take a look at the updated doc and see if there is still room for
>> improvement.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
>> http://www.shantanutushar.com
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> Sorry for letting this one slip for so long!
>>>
>>> On Friday, September 14, 2012 11:29:11 Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
>>> > Can you review the doc at
>>> >
>>> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yKJheK6UBH0-h_q6KC_XSJSmD0QJiG3JU24bdBki
>>> > Up0/editand suggest improvements to make it dot material? I and sinny
>>> > wish
>>> > to get a
>>> > PMC release asap :)
>>>
>>> From a reader's point of view, a few things are missing: What it is, what
>>> it
>>> does, mainly.
>>>
>>> The article should start explaining what Plasma Mediacenter is, describe
>>> its
>>> main use cases, its feature set, add a few screenshots a screencast, so
>>> users
>>> unknown to it can get an impression of what they're reading about.
>>>
>>> The History part is not very interesting for the reader unknown to Plasma
>>> Mediacenter. It's fine as an anecdote for a blog, but doesn't really have
>>> a
>>> place in the announcement.
>>>
>>> The "This Release" part is misleading. You write that there's only a few
>>> improvements, but:
>>>
>>> - that's a very developer-centric point of view
>>> - the user has nothing to compare it with
>>> - given that it's a first release, you have to fully introduce the thing,
>>> and
>>> at that point, everything is new
>>>
>>> Even in subsequent releases, you'll want to concentrate on the whole
>>> thing,
>>> the overall idea and put that upfront. Only for some users, it's
>>> interesting
>>> to see the changes compared to earlier versions, but the main target
>>> group is
>>> people who don't know PMC yet, and need every assumption you make
>>> explained.
>>>
>>> Hope my feedback is useful, feel free to have me look over subsequent
>>> versions
>>> (I'lll try my best to be quicker this time around :)).
>>>
>>> By the way: Great progress on PMC, to both of you! :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> --
>>> sebas
>>>
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