Posted on March 7th, 2010, by Stu
If you’re reading this via Google Buzz then this post was brought to you by Wordpress, Identi.ca, Twitter and Google. That’s either impressive or horrifying…
Social Media tools suck
On the one hand, it’s kind of nice that interoperation is possible at all, but on the other it’s a silly chain with many unnecessary points of fail. [...]
Tags: Camp KDE, community, Free Culture, promotion, rant, suckage, web technology
Posted on February 17th, 2010, by Stu
Hello KDE fans, I have a couple of tasks for you:
Design KDE swag
KDE has a new spreadshirt store with a couple of nice t-shirts by Sebas and some badges including some work by Ingo.
We’ve been formulating some ideas and designs on the wiki and some, like mine, are in need of some proper artistic [...]
Tags: artwork, community, help needed, photography, promotion, Science
Posted on January 15th, 2010, by Stu
Long time, no post… “Real life” is unfortunately keeping me busy.
Nonetheless, something I did back in November came to fruition this week. A few months ago Jos got in touch with the folks at Linux Journal to see if they might be interested in some KDE related articles for their February issue. It turned out [...]
Tags: KDE in the news, promotion, reviews
Posted on December 8th, 2009, by Stu
How do we get more people interested in KDE software? We can talk about it being Free (and free), point out that it does everything that the proprietary competition can do (if that’s true) but there is always a cost in changing software: you have to learn new stuff. Therefore our biggest openings are when [...]
Tags: help needed, promotion, wow factor
Posted on December 7th, 2009, by Stu
I’ll show you mine if you’ll show me yours – well, actually, I’ll show you mine anyway
Thomas Hannigan suggested on kde-promo the rather good idea of making a flickr group to showcase some of the ways you can build your own ideal workspace using KDE’s Plasma Desktop. This can act as a [...]
Tags: help needed, Plasma Desktop, promotion, screenshots
