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by Lydia Pintscher
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On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 17:47, Igor Schwarzmann <schwarzmann@...> wrote:
> Hi Lydia,
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Lydia Pintscher
> <lydia.pintscher@...> wrote:
>> I exchanged a few e-mails with Cory already and I think we have got a
>> good connection.
>> So if someone wants to get in touch with him feel free to poke me.
>
> great, so we have at least one direct connection to
> Cory. That's good, because it's probably not that
> easy to get in touch with him. :-)
>
>> My impression: You can't bullshit him into anything. So if you really
>> want to make him even consider writing about or switching to KDE you
>> have to present it honestly and without marketing bla bla.
>> Also I have the impression that he takes great pride in being
>> independent and writing reviews about things he is really passionate
>> about.
>
> I'm not on a classic marketing trip, btw. ,) I think it's
> a great product and I think I can help out with the
> communication a bit. If Cory decides to go with
> Gnome, because he prefers it, that's ok with me.
> It's not about bullshiting, it's about giving people
> to opportunity to take a closer look at KDE.
;-) I wasn't expecting anything else. Just wanted to make sure we are
on the same page here.
>> That being said he seems rather happy with GNOME right now.
>> What we could do however is ask him to give KDE a try for some time.
>> (Make it easy by offering a test machine or really good live CD?)
>
> That might be a good idea, but I'm not sure what
> the best liveCD is right now. openSUSE11 worked
> fine enough for me.
Personally I would advice against openSUSE.
They customized the look of KDE 4 to look pretty much like KDE 3. In
my opinion it doesn't look good but that is personal taste probably.
Fact is it is not a "clean" KDE 4 experience.
I don't know which one to use but we want one that is as close to SVN I think.
>> To sum it up I like your proposal but we need to be careful how we
>> present it to the blogger/journalist/... in question.
>
> Definitely, but then again, I think we have the right product
> and we're not "selling" anything. So it's really just about
> showing what we have. If somebody isn't interested, so be
> it.
True.
Cheers
Lydia
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Lydia Pintscher
Amarok community manager
kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org
claimid.com/nightrose
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> Hi Lydia,
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Lydia Pintscher
> <lydia.pintscher@...> wrote:
>> I exchanged a few e-mails with Cory already and I think we have got a
>> good connection.
>> So if someone wants to get in touch with him feel free to poke me.
>
> great, so we have at least one direct connection to
> Cory. That's good, because it's probably not that
> easy to get in touch with him. :-)
>
>> My impression: You can't bullshit him into anything. So if you really
>> want to make him even consider writing about or switching to KDE you
>> have to present it honestly and without marketing bla bla.
>> Also I have the impression that he takes great pride in being
>> independent and writing reviews about things he is really passionate
>> about.
>
> I'm not on a classic marketing trip, btw. ,) I think it's
> a great product and I think I can help out with the
> communication a bit. If Cory decides to go with
> Gnome, because he prefers it, that's ok with me.
> It's not about bullshiting, it's about giving people
> to opportunity to take a closer look at KDE.
;-) I wasn't expecting anything else. Just wanted to make sure we are
on the same page here.
>> That being said he seems rather happy with GNOME right now.
>> What we could do however is ask him to give KDE a try for some time.
>> (Make it easy by offering a test machine or really good live CD?)
>
> That might be a good idea, but I'm not sure what
> the best liveCD is right now. openSUSE11 worked
> fine enough for me.
Personally I would advice against openSUSE.
They customized the look of KDE 4 to look pretty much like KDE 3. In
my opinion it doesn't look good but that is personal taste probably.
Fact is it is not a "clean" KDE 4 experience.
I don't know which one to use but we want one that is as close to SVN I think.
>> To sum it up I like your proposal but we need to be careful how we
>> present it to the blogger/journalist/... in question.
>
> Definitely, but then again, I think we have the right product
> and we're not "selling" anything. So it's really just about
> showing what we have. If somebody isn't interested, so be
> it.
True.
Cheers
Lydia
--
Lydia Pintscher
Amarok community manager
kde.org - amarok.kde.org - kubuntu.org
claimid.com/nightrose
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