Re: Article about Baloo

On Tuesday 21 January 2014 13:31:38 Martín González wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yep, if the article it's a short explanation it doesn't make sense to
> include an interview!
> 
> I like your idea, Jos, to have a continuous flow of communication about
> this. Regarding the increase of our communications channels, Linux.com or
> related pages 'official' pages are a natural way to increase our audience,
> if we want to keep the interview as an 'official' KDE content.
> 
> But of course, I miss some things about the Linux english-written media! :D
> 
> Apart from that, I think that it'll be nice to make some graphics about the
> impressive increase of velocity and the reduction of CPU usage that Baloo
> brings. This could help us to 'sell' that Baloo is better and reflect that
> the Nepomuk 'bad days' are gone in a factual way. It'll better if it can be
> included in the planned article.
> 
> What do you think?

Abso-freakin'-lutely. Yes, having some hard numbers to back up our claims is a 
very good idea ("number of crashes per hour" is probably NOT a nice metric but 
anything else goes :D).

If you would volunteer for that, you'd earn yourself a big hug and a beverage 
of your choice the first time we meet.

Hugs,
J

> 
> 2014/1/20 Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]>
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Martín González <[email protected]>
> > 
> > wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > First, I present myself: I'm a journalist student here in Barcelona, and
> > > I've collaborated several times with Alex and Aleix doing coverages
> > > about
> > > Blue Systems and KDE events in Spain (Akademy-es). Aleix told me about
> > > Baloo, and tomorrow I'll be in the office interviewing Vishesh.
> > > Maybe that piece can fit in the planned article. Please tell me what you
> > > think.
> > 
> > Hi martín,
> > 
> > Thanks, that is a great idea. It won't fit as part of the article
> > itself (we want to keep that from getting too long) but it DOES fit in
> > a concerted effort to communicate about Baloo. We could either publish
> > this interview on the Dot a week, maybe two, after the first article
> > to keep some attention on Baloo (and make sure we answer questions
> > people have) or we could publish it roughly simultaneously in another
> > channel, for example linux.com (although I'm not too happy about the
> > visibility of original content there) or another site.
> > 
> > As a journalist, you might have an idea about how to reach the most people
> > ;-)
> > 
> > > Following the topic, as a normal user I support the idea of Baloo as a
> > > different product than Nepomuk. Vishesh told me about the great
> > 
> > improvements
> > 
> > > in speed and cpu usage, and Nepomuk has a not-so-good reputation, so it
> > > makes sense to mark Baloo as something different.
> > 
> > Absolutely. At the same time, as I point out, we should avoid making
> > people thing it is a entirely-from-scratch project as they have
> > (rightfully) had enough of such projects - they will immediately bring
> > up Akonadi and "KDE 4.0". Our message needs to be carefully tuned to
> > avoid the Nepomuk haters from immediately yelling at Baloo, yet not
> > create the impression we didn't learn from what went before.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Jos
> > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Martín González
> > 
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