Re: Talking about the KDE Free Qt Foundation

On domingo, 15 de diciembre de 2019 20:28:37 (CET) Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 1:21 PM Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On domingo, 15 de diciembre de 2019 10:28:56 (CET) Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > Hi Promo,
> > > After some discussions with the KDE Free Qt Foundation as well as
> > > other members of our community, we've come to the conclusion that we
> > > would like to put more work in spreading the KFQF's reason to be as
> > > well as its history and challenges.
> > 
> > Good idea. So maybe we should design a series of messages to remind the
> > world this exists, yes?
> 
> Sure, I'd say it's more about saying the right thing in the right
> forum though, rather than the world.
> But a bit of everything needs to be done, yes.

This is one of those things I need to get my head around to do it properly. 
So, excuse me, but I have more questions:

What sort of readers are you interested in attracting? Developers? Managers? 
The general public seems not to be it, correct?

> > > I'm sending this e-mail because if you hear of any forum that could be
> > > interested in the subject, especially in the industry, please let us
> > > know.
> > 
> > Interested in what way? In offering support? Joining? Sponsoring?
> 
> In giving us an interested audience. It's a bit out of our comfort
> zone, interested audience will be Qt-related industry as well as legal
> free software spaces.

Yes, ok... But what do you want the interested people to do? Getting people 
interested is not goal in itself. It is a means to an end. You will then want 
to do something with that attention down the road.

I understand the Foundation has been out of the limelight for some time and I 
also understand that is not a good thing. But you must have something in mind 
to give it a push. If I know what you want, we can work it into promo messages 
and have a much more focused.

See if any of these fit what you have in mind:

- Does the Foundation accept fellows, supporters or something like that? If 
that is the case, do you want more of them?

- Do you want the Foundation to be taken into account in the business world? 
Get its members invited to summits, consulted by companies, and so on?

- Do you want to kill the myth that Qt is a risk to use for dodgy licensing 
once and for all and thus encourage its (and KDE's) use by developers?

> > > Also if someone is specifically interested in the subject and would
> > > like to help to put together the materials that would be interesting
> > > as well.
> > 
> > Promotional materials?
> 
> Yes, and shaping the message overall.

Okay. If we can figure out the answer to those questions above, we will be able 
to shape much better and focused message.

Thank for you patience

Paul
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