Re: Joint blog with KDAB about KDE Frameworks libraries

Perfect, thanks Nicholas.
I’ll let Paul take this up with you for obv. reasons :-)

Frances

> On 21 Jan 2021, at 12:39, Nicolas Fella <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Frances, Paul,
> 
> I'd be happy to consult on technical matters, feel free to reach out for any questions.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Nico
> 
> On 1/21/21 12:35 PM, Frances Tait wrote:
>> 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] <mailto:[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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