Re: Introducing the KDE e.V. marketing contractors

Hi Ivana and Paul! Welcome to KDE!
I hope that you two found a very warm and cute environment with us. =D
Probably we will work together on the KDE eV Fundraising Group activities.
Cheers!

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 5:24 PM, Sandro Andrade <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear KDE promo team,
>
> As discussed in this mailing list, we have been working on hiring
> someone to help us in the marketing tasks around KDE and KDE e.V. We
> published a call for proposals and six applicants have contacted the
> board interested in such a position. After a preliminary evaluation of
> their CVs we had a video-conference interview with two of them. Our
> expectations for such a position involve two major accomplishments:
> come up with a medium-/long-term overall marketing strategy for KDE;
> and fulfill our daily demands for marketing-related work, including
> dot stories, fundraising themes, and so on.
>
> The two applicants we interviewed, Ivana and Paul, have a strong
> background in free software culture and, in particular, in KDE. They
> have been working on marketing and outreach efforts for established
> free software communities, organizations, and FLOSS-related media. We
> think they are both a very good fit for the two aforementioned
> expectations and, since our 2017 budget includes the hiring of two
> positions related to marketing, we decided to move on and hire both of
> them. We believe they, as a team, will push the marketing actions we
> sorely need in KDE and help set stage for a long-term KDE marketing
> team.
>
> Let us introduce Ivana and Paul to you:
>
> Ivana is a writer and translator from Croatia. She became a full-time
> Linux user in 2007 and fell in love with KDE community and its
> software a few years later. Her marketing experience is primarily
> related to social media management and content strategy development.
> She promotes FLOSS by spreading awareness, knowledge and advice in
> reviews, tutorials, and user guides she writes for online
> publications. In her local Linux user community, Ivana has served as a
> community manager and content editor, helping volunteer contributors
> and new Linux users, and promoting local FLOSS events.
>
> Paul Brown is a writer, copywriter, editor and social media junkie. He
> has written and edited on the topic of Free Software for magazines and
> sites such as Linux Magazine, Ubuntu User, Raspberry Pi Geek,
> Linux.com, OpenSource.com and LWN.net. He advises tech companies and
> organisations that work with FLOSS technologies on how to improve the
> way they communicate and reach more people. He has also given chats at
> events on the subject, including once to crowd of Spanish KDE
> developers. He started using GNU/Linux in 1996 and quickly made KDE
> his desktop of choice when he installed Mandrake in the late 90s.
>
> We're looking forward to the ways both will help us spread the word
> about KDE, and we hope that you do as well!
>
> Sandro Andrade
> for the KDE e.V. Board of Directors
>



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