Yes, this platform offers a number of benefits over the current one(s), and introduces some basic marketing tools that I feel are badly needed.
Really though, the reason I am suggesting this is because as it stands the KDE 'community' is really a developer community, not a user one. That really needs to change if KDE wants to have more donations, for the obvious reasons. In fact, I was going to write a long piece about moving to a social network would attract young users etc, but this really is the key point. KDE presents a very corporate and stale image that is not inviting for users to participate in, or engage with. You are not going to get mass donations because there is nothing for a user to get emotionally involved with. Kind regards, *David Wright* > +1 for Reply-By-Email! Forum.kde.org's "anonymous" notification can > depress users that are AFK... > > On 25 August 2014 13:53, David Wright <david.wright12...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did send this originally to the kde-www address but I thought I'd send it > > here as well for a bit of fun. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > David > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: <david.wright12...@gmail.com> > > Date: 17 Aug 2014 00:24 > > Subject: A change of heart > > To: "kde-www" <kde-...@kde.org> > > Cc: > > > > Hi guys, > > > > I've been doing a bit of research lately on CMS's and stumbled across > > http://commonsinabox.org/ which is basically a bundled buddypress plugin > > which powers http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/ amogest other. > > > > Given the social nature of this setup, and the fact it is built upon > > wordpress > > (it is basically a set of wordpress plugins that have been tested together), > > I > > felt that this might be something that KDE might like to take under > > consideration? > > > > A standard install would include forums, groups, collaborative docs, social > > @ > > mentions, user profiles etc, etc. > > > > Also, using the multi user aspect of wordpress it would still allow certain > > projects to keep their identity, but remain under the networks umbrella, as > > evidenced by: http://helpwanted.commons.gc.cuny.edu/ > > > > Naturally, being exposed then to the wordpress plugin ecosphere would allow > > then a better integrated events management, job board, even a store if > > desired. > > > > Ultimately though, the goal is to increase funding. The KDE websphere is too > > spread out, and this would help reign it in so we can really do focused > > funding campaigns on users. That would be the advantage of the groups, as we > > could tailor funding drives to particular interests and hopefully have > > better > > success. > > > > Administration might also be made easier as we could get rid of a fair few > > subdomains by moving to this kind of platform. > > > > Anyway, it's late, and I'm jabbering. Let me know what you think! > > > > :-) > > > > ps > > > > There is also a buddypress app that could be rebranded: > > https://github.com/yuttadhammo/buddydroid > > > > Mozilla were also working on bugzilla intergration a while back: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643570 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > kde-community mailing list > > kde-community@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community > > > > -- > regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek > Kexi & Calligra & KDE | http://calligra.org/kexi | http://kde.org > Qt for Tizen | http://qt-project.org/wiki/Tizen > Qt Certified Specialist | http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek > _______________________________________________ > kde-community mailing list > kde-community@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
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