Re: Three Important Things for Plasma Active 3
On Saturday 13 October 2012, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: On Saturday, October 13, 2012 15:03:45 Marco Martin wrote: all in all, the right apps to bring forward tough. the real big one would be the file browser, but is very difficul to talk about it without sounding nerdy, so should be put forward as a core feature of the os rather than an app agreed; imho it is part of the Activity workflow, where the system cares about helping you manage / organize your information in a humane way. so what can be said is that your files aren't behind the wall of a single app, but you have the freedom to control and organize them as you want, putting the user back in control of hisown files Cheers, Marco Martin ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
Re: Three Important Things for Plasma Active 3
On Sunday, October 14, 2012 12:27:26 Inge Wallin wrote: However, what I'm missing is who Plasma Active (PA) in general and this release in particular is aimed at. Is Plasma Active aimed at the general public who browses the web and watches videos? Or is it aimed at tinkerers (hobbyists or professionals) who really need a fully customizable platform? Yes. ;) My guess is that the first category would be served well by PA itself but would find the very limited number of downloadable applications a major turn- off. Depends on what they use their tablet for. The limited number of apps is an innevitable part of the journey, and we are rather purposefully designing something that is useful out of the box rather than something that relies on applications. We simply are not playing the app count game; we're delivering a system that provides the essential use cases for people who use their tablets for online and offline content (with some nice bonuses like some games). As for application availability, that will come with the availability of hardware. We've filled a large gap with the Add Ons app so that we have a nice way to deliver additional content, including such apps, but it's obvious we won't see 1000s of apps be available until there is hardware. But for the second category there is more or less NO alternative. In other words PA is unique for them. Agreed. So I suggest that you emphasize strongly the fully free nature of PA and that it enables the user to build customized systems using PA where they have total control over the result. Who does that? Companies creating products, but that's it. As a result, we'd likely simply blunt nearly all interest in what we're doing with such a we're not an actual usable product, we're a set of lego bricks you get to assemble message. That said, we definitely want to court companies working on these things as well. However, nearly every single company I've talked to so far that would like to do this or is even attempting to do so now needs not just the software solution but a hardware solution too. Without that we're a bit dead in the water with them. So we're back to marketing from what our current strengths are ... This is also the market segment where we can build a strong community. And a nice side effect is that it will be people who have money and who can put full-time people into the development effort. Having the first mover advantage here means that for at least a period, PA can get ALL the paid development that will happen around tablet based free systems. Yes, one there is a hardware platform they can use. This has repeatedly been the issue we've run into. If you know of companies that have their own hardware and are doing customized tablet software on it as well, please point them out and/or make introductions :) That said, I think there is a distinction between PA as a software product and PA as a larger ecosystem driver. On its own as a software product, no matter how good it might be, it is of such limited interest that it really has next to no future. -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
Re: taglines on PA3 website.
On 05.10.2012 19:53, Carl Symons wrote: I can put PA 3 reviewer guide together later. Need: Plasma Active logo (in svg if available) PA3 announcement link (when available) verification that press contacts are the same updated information on hardware and testing Plasma Active in a virtual machine I just went through the reviewer guide and found three wrong links in there: - Both the announcement and press kit each link to the PA1 version (though the link text is correct) - The link to the demo video on Youtube points to a video which has been removed The presskit (other than containing the above errors in the reviewer guide) seems fine :) ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
Re: release
On 06.10.2012 00:11, Carl Symons wrote: Where is the microblogging app? Is there such a thing? Since the microbblogging app is now mentioned on the live website: Could somebody please tell me which application is referred to here? Let's just assume I'm an avid microblogger, I'm excited by the news that PA now has an application for me, have installed the PA3 Mer image and could not find an application called Microblogging or anything similar. Where can I find it? ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
Re: release
On Sunday, October 14, 2012 23:37:40 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: On 06.10.2012 00:11, Carl Symons wrote: Where is the microblogging app? Is there such a thing? Since the microbblogging app is now mentioned on the live website: Could somebody please tell me which application is referred to here? Let's just assume I'm an avid microblogger, I'm excited by the news that PA now has an application for me, have installed the PA3 Mer image and could not find an application called Microblogging or anything similar. Where can I find it? it's a news reader, not a microblogging app... we really do need to hook up one of the several microblogging apps that are floating around, however :) -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
Printed promo material?
Hi everyone, I'm currently at the NordiCHI conference in Copenhagen, and when I talked to fellow HCI researchers here today about how awesome Plasma Active is and got them really interested, I wished I had something I could give them with the URL of our website on it and maybe a few more bits of information (though the URL might already be enough). There were PA flyers printed once, weren't there? Was their content timeless or would it need to be updated? If there are some left and they could still be used: Where can I get them? Thanks, Thomas ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
Re: taglines on PA3 website.
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer colo...@autistici.org wrote: On 05.10.2012 19:53, Carl Symons wrote: I can put PA 3 reviewer guide together later. Need: Plasma Active logo (in svg if available) PA3 announcement link (when available) verification that press contacts are the same updated information on hardware and testing Plasma Active in a virtual machine I just went through the reviewer guide and found three wrong links in there: - Both the announcement and press kit each link to the PA1 version (though the link text is correct) - The link to the demo video on Youtube points to a video which has been removed The presskit (other than containing the above errors in the reviewer guide) seems fine :) This is the last video that Marco posted. and, hopefully the last one (this time higher res) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulcizzAj-N4 ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
Re: Printed promo material?
On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer colo...@autistici.org wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently at the NordiCHI conference in Copenhagen, and when I talked to fellow HCI researchers here today about how awesome Plasma Active is and got them really interested, I wished I had something I could give them with the URL of our website on it and maybe a few more bits of information (though the URL might already be enough). There were PA flyers printed once, weren't there? Was their content timeless or would it need to be updated? If there are some left and they could still be used: Where can I get them? Thanks, Thomas I'm not aware of any brochures. I've demonstrated PA at several conferences on the ExoPC. Good idea to have brochures. We've been using business card sized literature lately, which works well. Would be easy to have 3Important Things about PA and PA3 along with the logo and URL. How long will you be there? Do you have access to a printing company? In Europe, business cards are 55 mm x 85 mm? ___ Active mailing list Active@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
