Re: Joint blog with KDAB about KDE Frameworks libraries

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the update on KDE’s marketing profile these days :-)
I went with Ivan’s suggestion as the recording was yesterday afternoon, but now I know what to say in the future!

Any progress on the blog?

Do you need anything from me?

Frances

> On 20 Jan 2021, at 17:37, Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On miércoles, 20 de enero de 2021 12:30:31 (CET) Frances Tait wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
> 
> Hello Frances,
> 
> Sorry for not answering earlier. My email borked and I just got it back.
> 
>> An unrelated question: I’m writing a very short intro for our Kalle
>> Dalheimer and Ivan Čukić for a C++ audience and want to mention their
>> involvement in KDE. Is it accurate/ok to describe KDE like this (NOTE this
>> is already longer than I need it to be, and the audience may not even have
>> heard of KDE):
>> 
>> "KDE, the free/open source, graphical environment project".
> 
> KDE used to be a synonym of that, but not anymore. KDE now describes the 
> community. And the community creates KDE the software, which is not only the 
> graphical desktop environment (which is now known as "Plasma").
> 
> KDE does develop Plasma, the desktop, correct, but also a bunch of popular 
> apps, like Krita for digital artists; Kdenlive for video editors; Kdevelop for 
> developers; Okular for reading, annotating and signing documents (like PDFs); 
> LabPlot for data analysts; a full-featured web browser called Falkon; an 
> educational suite of activities for kids from 2 to 10 called GCompris; Kontact 
> for managing email, calendars, contacts, etc.; ... It is a very long list!
> 
> KDE also produces frameworks that facilitate development. Probably the most 
> popular of which right now is Kirigami, that helps developers create software 
> that works on all kinds of devices, like computers, mobiles, TVs, car 
> infotainment systems, etc. But Kirigami is not the only framework either, but 
> Ivan will be able to fill you in better than me.
> 
>> I wanted to emphasise the breadth of what KDE offers (not just desktop). If
>> you have something punchy and SHORT that’s better, I’d be very grateful.
>> SHORT NOTICE: I need it by this afternoon :-)
> 
> So, riffing off of Ivan's suggestion, maybe something like:
> 
> "KDE, the Community that produces the biggest free and open source C++ 
> projects, ..."
> 
> or something like that?
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
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