Re: Dot article for PMC 0.9 release

Am Montag, 24. September 2012, 10:51:57 schrieb Carl Symons:
> 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.


I also think that a video presentation might be nice. 
Sadly I somehow cannot compile the latest version of PMC here on debian as it 
keeps complaining about missing 'QtMultimediaKit' which is definitaly 
installed. So I think I cannot help with this. 



> > Here is the draft
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yKJheK6UBH0-h_q6KC_XSJSmD0QJiG3JU24bdB
> > kiUp0/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_XSJSmD0QJiG3JU2
> >>> > 4bdBki 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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> > 
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