Re: KOffice team is looking for webmasters

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 21:14:17 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > > Do you think people not interested in KDE would mind finding the pages
> > > they are looking for on userbase?
> >
> > For a sizable part of the free software artist community, I'm afraid the
> > answer would be yes.
> 
> For what reasons? As we are trying to make userbase the home for users of KDE 
> applications it would be a pity if we miss some groups of users by that. So 
> what is it that free software artists are looking for, what we can't provide 
> on userbase?

Because many people in the free software artist community are not KDE users at all.
They might be prepared to install krita (often as long as they do not know that they are
also install KDE and KOffice libraries), but they don't identify themselves in any
way as a KDE user.

For me, as a developer, I find I have to recognize (for instance, when visiting
LGM and talking to artists and developers there) that KDE is a subset of the free
software community, and within the subset that's interested in art and graphics
a really small subset. A project that is perceived outside the KDE subset of the 
community as standing on its own can attract more people, developers and artists.

And then I hope we can do something about the really poor image of KDE in the free
graphics software community. There are some great applications (like krita, karbon
and digikam), but not many, and people will only use them if they are using KDE already,
otherwise they will go to great lengths to avoid using them.

> If there are reasons to provide a separate web site for some applications, 
> that's ok, but I would like to understand what these reasons are. KDE has 
> been pretty successfull providing common infrastructure for a broad variety 
> of needs. I'm somehow reluctant to think that this would not be possible for 
> our web sites.

Infrastructure, sure, but a project like Krita really needs to be seen as standing on its
own merits, otherwise it'll never grow beyond being the app-you-use-if-you-use-KDE. 
(Which very few people in the free graphics software community do).

Boudewijn

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