Re: release promotion in a box

On Friday 02 Aug 2013 16:47:18 Sebastian Gruener wrote:
> Am Freitag, 2. August 2013, 11:52:09 schrieb Kenny Duffus:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I noticed in Jos' blogpost[1] a nicely rendered "product box"[2] for
> > openSUSE, that struck me as a great image to use for KDE releases.
> > 
> > I think the box works well as a concrete this is a real thing you can get
> > all in one coherant package, paticuarly for anyone older than a teenager.
> > 
> > I'm struggling a bit to describe this but i think it really helps give the
> > idea that the release is something you can just pick up and use.
> > 
> > Not sure what others think? It would obviously require an artist to create
> > something new each major release.
> > 
> > 1. http://blog.jospoortvliet.com/2013/08/osc13-strategy-and-stable.html
> > 2.
> > http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fBuFYUWgbow/Uft04XJBpVI/AAAAAAAAEH0/wVndsxf6XxM/
> > s
> > 1600/123_Boxshot_3D_opensourcepress.png
> 
> Hey,
> 
> just two things that struck my mind.
> 
> 1. One can actually buy this Opensuse-Box [1]. Hence I wouldn't use this
> kind of promo for KDE, as long as one can't buy this anywhere.
> 

Maybe promoting that you can buy support for KDE is something worth promoting?

> 2. I personally don't think that this is good promo-material for software at
> all, nowadays. I'm either to young for this, as you noted (never bought
> software in a box) or I'm too spoiled with broadband-internet.
> 
> The latter might not be true for "rural" areas, but if I even take this into
> account, the first problem remains.
> 
> And before I forget, the image looks quite good though.
> 

I thought it was an idea worth raising to see others thoughts, thanks.

-- 

	Kenny

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