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

On Saturday 26 July 2014 12:29:59 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> 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_e
> > tc_ 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.

Agreed. That does mean website work - with nobody really up for that atm :(

Perhaps we can do something face-2-face at Akademy...

> Cheers,


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