Re: KOffice team is looking for webmasters

On Thursday 30. October 2008 09:50:56 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > 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.

I completely agree with Boudewijn here; people that don't run KDE should be 
able to find individual KOffice apps, or even KOffice itself, without 
thinking its a KDE app. Since we have seen that people that do not run KDE 
feel that if they start using one KDE app that this will mean they are forced 
to use KDE for *everything*.
Sad but true.
Naturally this doesn't mean we distance ourselves from KDE at all!

But this point is actually completely tangential to the thread we started 
here. KOffice has a good idea (thanks Alexandra!) how to market itself to 
potential users and requires a KOffice.org site for that.
We even have a mockup for the content (call it a starting point).

So what we require now;
* the technical infrastructure. Which means a simple wordpress or similar on 
koffice.org.
* People able and willing to work with that install to make it look pretty and 
to mold it into the structure we have in mind already.

Next week is the KOffice sprint in Berlin. The PR people will be there too and 
they will surely come to real decisions on structure and goals for the 
content. It would be really great if at the same time we have someone that 
would be able to do the website maintenance of putting up pre-written 
content, writing css, communicating with artists, etc etc etc.
I think this role is generally seen as the 'webmaster'.  Which is what we used 
in this thread, apologies if the impression given was more "please make us a 
website from scratch" that was certainly not the intention.

And trying to read Cornelius mind; yes, we intend to leverage techbase and 
userbase where applicable. :)
-- 
Thomas Zander

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