Re: Explain branding (KDE, Plasma, Frameworks etc.) on kde.org?

On Thursday, July 24, 2014 19:40:21 Hans Chen wrote:
> With the new shiny Plasma 5 and KDE Frameworks, and the further releases of
> the 4 series, I have noticed that a lot of people get confused by the "new"
> branding. Here are two recent examples:
> https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=73&t=12214
> http://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/2ah2ek/eli5_kde_sc_plasma_next_qt5_etc_
> i_dont_get_it/
> 
> "tryan" from the KDE Forums (see first link) suggested to add an explanation
> on the main http://kde.org website, which I think sounds like a good idea.
> How about having a banner/link above "Latest Announcement" that could read
> something like "KDE? Plasma? Frameworks? What does this all mean?".
> Clicking on it would take the user to a page with a short explanation of
> the KDE Community, the workspace Plasma, that KDE also creates cool
> applications, and that the workspaces and applications are based on
> Frameworks, which allows developers to easily create beautiful and
> feature-rich software.
> 
> I would love to contribute but unfortunately I'm very busy at the moment.
> What do you guys think about this idea, and is there anyone who's willing to
> work on this?

Instead of an FAQ, we should promote the products as they are, for example 
(bit abstract), have three links on the frontpage:

- Frameworks -- Use them to develop great applications
- Plasma -- Your workspace
- Applications -- An app for everything you want to do

The idea being that it should be self-explanatory, if we have to add an FAQ to 
explain what we make, we've already failed in the communication department.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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