Re: KDE Promo Activities Report 3 - What's Going On?

Nice report, Ivana! Have you thought about also sending it to the
KDE-community list? It might help us find more promo people.

Valorie

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Ivana Isadora Devcic <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello, everyone!
>
> Another week, another KDE Promo report. :)
>
> This edition of the report is special in that we've now synchronized the
> reports posted on the mailing list with the ones posted on Planet KDE (
> https://quickfix.es/author/skadinna/).
> In other words, the posts on Planet KDE will no longer be lagging behind
> the mailing list. Yaaay!
>
> If you missed the previous report, don't worry: you can read it on Planet
> KDE (linked above) or here:
> https://marc.info/?l=kde-promo&m=150651242524645&w=2
>
> So, what have we been up to in the past month, and which tasks do we offer
> to potential contributors?
> Let's have a look.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
> 1) Qt World Summit 2017 - Post-event analysis and discussion
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------
>
> Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/T7315
>
> QtWS 2017 ended, and we are generally happy with our presence and
> activities at the event. However, there is always room for improvement.
> That's why we started a task on Phabricator to discuss what went wrong and
> what we could do better in the future.
>
> How you can help:
>
> + if you were at QtWS 2017 either as a visitor or as part of our team,
> please write your impressions on Phabricator
>
> + if you have any suggestions for what we can improve - not just at QtWS,
> but at other events where KDE has a presence - feel free to mention them in
> your comments.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 2) Organizing the KDE Promo Sprint
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> This summer we ran a short survey to see how many people were interested
> in contributing to KDE Promo.
>
> If you're one of those people, we would like to meet you and work with you
> in person!
> And if you didn't take the survey, but you're serious about contributing
> to KDE Promo, you are more than welcome to join us.
>
> How you can help:
>
> + tell us where you will be traveling from and when you would prefer to
> attend the sprint so that we can pick the time and place:
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T7317
>
> + suggest topics and tasks that we should discuss and work on during the
> sprint: https://phabricator.kde.org/T7318
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 3) Preparing the End-of-Year Fundraising Campaign
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Winter is coming, right? That means it's high time we started organizing
> the end-of-year fundraising campaign.
> Our Randa 2017 fundraiser reached 30% of its goal, so it would be great if
> we could achieve more in this one.
>
> How you can help:
>
> + join the kde-promo IRC channel/Telegram group and let us know that you
> would like to work on this
>
> + take a look at the KDE Community 2017 Highlight Reel -
> https://notes.kde.org/p/KDE_Highlight_Reel_2017 - and add important
> events we might have missed
>
> + write an article/announcement for the Dot about the campaign based on
> the highlight reel
>
> + read the linked email thread to learn how fundraising has been done
> before, and what lessons can be extracted from that experience:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01175.html
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 4) KDE.org Website Redesign
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/T6842
>
> Just a reminder that a major overhaul of the official KDE website is still
> in progress.
> The website will not only be visually redesigned, but will also switch to
> a new CMS (namely, WordPress).
>
> We haven't gathered a lot of new feedback since the last report, so if you
> would like to share your opinions and suggestions for the new website,
> please do so.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------
> 5) Beyond Promo: Voting on KDE Community Goals is officially open!
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------
>
> Phabricator board with all proposed goals: https://phabricator.kde.org/
> project/board/244/
>
> As you're probably aware, the KDE Community has been working on long-term
> goals for the past couple of months.
> With the proposals submitted and the review/discussion period over, now is
> the time to vote for the goals that you find most important for the
> community.
>
> The voting will be open for 2 weeks.
>
> If you're an active KDE contributor, you should have already received the
> information on how to vote.
> This is your chance to influence the direction in which the KDE Community
> will be moving in the future, so make sure to participate.
>
> ***********************************
> Reasons to Celebrate
> ***********************************
>
> Here's a small selection of wins, successes, and cool achievements from
> the last month. :)
>
> 1) KDE has a new patron - Private Internet Access!
>
> We reported on this, so you can read more about the partnership:
> https://dot.kde.org/2017/10/16/private-internet-access-becomes-kde-patron
>
> 2) Purism Librem5 campaign exceeded its funding goal!
>
> The crowdfunding campaign has succeeded, and then some - they managed to
> reach $1,500,000, which is fantastic.
> This means our partnership will proceed to the next level as agreed.
>
> We have supported the campaign with blog posts, Dot articles, social media
> posts, guerrilla marketing on Reddit, blasts to media outlets, etc.
> Many tech news sites have talked about our involvement as collected in
> task https://phabricator.kde.org/T6919, and the campaign success can be
> traced back directly to when we got involved.
>
> 3) KDE Community reached 51 000 followers on Twitter!
>
> The @kdecommunity Twitter account has recently reached 50k followers, and
> then another thousand soon after, which is great.
>
> What isn‘t so great is that Paul still has to manually collect all
> analytics data from social media – and he‘s been doing that for several
> months now.
> If you can recommend some tools that could help with automating this,
> please let us know in the Phabricator task: https://phabricator.kde.org/
> T6481
>
> ***
>
> And that's it for today's Promo report. We hope it helped you understand
> what we're doing and how you can get involved.
>
> Please let us know if you have any suggestions for improving our reports,
> and as always, feel free to send us your feedback. :)
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Until next time,
>
> Paul & Ivana Isadora
>
>
>
> --
> Ivana Isadora Devcic
> Promotion & Marketing, KDE.org
> @kdecommunity on Twitter <https://twitter.com/kdecommunity> || KDE on
> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/kde/>
>



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