Re: Promo's support for KDE booth at QtWS 2019

Hello Roman,

I will give you that you do seem to be slightly confused about what my job 
entails and even what Promo is. First off: Paul =/= Promo. That would be 
presumptuous. I will go one further even: Paul + Ivana =/= Promo. Promo is a 
whole bunch of people that carry out different tasks. We even have a task about 
it:

https://phabricator.kde.org/T8258

Secondly neither Ivana nor I are employed as designers, layouters, writers, 
bloggers, or even event organisers.

We do all those things from time to time, but, for Promo to be sustainable, 
community members will usually have to take the lead and use us like any other 
community human resource, a resource that sometimes will be available and 
sometimes won't. There is much more work to be done in Promo apart from 
designing, writing, sourcing and laying out stuff.

Which brings me to my final point. It is something I have mentioned before, and 
please don't take this the wrong way. Again: if you want materials for the 
event you are attending, the best course of action is to make them yourself... 
Like everybody else.

Check out the tasks for the Pycon India (https://phabricator.kde.org/T11430), 
or OpenExpo (https://phabricator.kde.org/T10539), or EduCode (https://
phabricator.kde.org/T8122) or, indeed past editions of QtWS. You will see that 
the people interested in attending these events usually figured stuff out 
themselves.

Sure Ivana and I have lent a hand when it came to advising on content, editing 
and proofreading texts, pointing towards designs available, figuring out 
budgets, etc.. Dropping everything else and creating a complex thing on 
demand? Not so much.

It is usually up to the person who is in charge of the booth to figure out the 
details, work on the designs, order the material from providers, pay for it 
and later charge the e.V.. If this is you, you better get a move on and stop 
wasting time.

I would like to point out that there is nothing personal in my non-
availability to make the flyers. I am just sceptical as to whether it is worth 
my while to spend time on QtWS at all. I am not saying it isn't. I just 
haven't seen any data that confirms it is. I have not seen figures, I have not 
seen any charts that show a growth in the number of developers, companies 
using KDE technologies, or sponsors after the event. Again, not saying that it 
has no effect. I just have not seen any evidence of it.

After three years, it gives me a pause, and I feel KDE is better served if I 
work on pending tasks that have a clearer and more concrete payback. I cannot 
in good faith go out of my way and put on hold other projects, to work on 
something that brings no clear gain for KDE,  just because I want to avoid 
irritating someone. Nope. Not doing that any more.

Just a matter of priorities. I am sure you understand.

Cheers

Paul
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