Re: [kde-community] Re: FOSDEM retrospective

[tetris4]

>From what is discussed so far, I see two ways to further approach this:
being reactive and proactive.

In being reactive, we can indeed prepare in advance answers to a set of
questions that we expect being asked at an event. As Adriaan mentioned,
this is not always straightforward. But we could have general responses
(what is KDE?), more specific depending on the event's topic (How is KDE
developed? What are Frameworks, Kirigami?) or related to the things we
choose to showcase at the booth (Plasma Desktop, Slimbook). KDE is very
big, and most of us are involved and have a good grasp of only a fraction
of the software that is produced under the KDE umbrella, so having some
go-to responses always helps.

In being proactive, we can definitely step up our game. We should narrow
down the message we want to convey at the specific time and place and be
active in reaching out to people regarding this. The chosen topic can be
highlighted in a very direct and focused way. To give an example, let's say
we take FOSDEM 2019 in mind. We could choose to focus on Plasma Mobile, so
we need to have the appropriate tools to promote it (videos, brochures,
activities, hardware, partnerships, t-shirts, stickers). So you end up
sharing a particular story and giving the audience a unified experience
about the chosen topic to attract their attention and inform them
accordingly. We could attempt to measure the impact from such efforts
afterwards in terms of visits to projects' websites, mailing lists,
interest from new people etc.

Neofytos

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Jonathan Riddell  wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:27:29PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > Well-said. There's two aspects:
> >  - why are we here (at this specific event)?
>
> It's the largest free software expo going, it keeps us in contact with
> our user and contributor community, if we weren't there or at similar
> events it would suggest we weren't a significant part of the free and
> open source movement.
>
> >  - what message do we want to spread?
>
> When I organise it I plan demos of the best of KDE's output from the
> last year and some spiel to promote it.  Many KDE people ignore the
> demos and chat their own lines which is fine too.
>
> Jonathan
>

Re: Akademy 2018 travel support

[Andy Betts]

Great! Thanks.

Andy
On 2/9/2018 8:21:52 AM, Lydia Pintscher  wrote:
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Andy Betts wrote:
> Hi Lydia,
>
> I applied but I am not sure if it went through. Are you able to check
> please?

Jep. It's in the system.


Cheers
Lydia

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Re: Akademy 2018 travel support

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 4:15 PM, Andy Betts  wrote:
> Hi Lydia,
>
> I applied but I am not sure if it went through. Are you able to check
> please?

Jep. It's in the system.


Cheers
Lydia

-- 
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
KDE e.V. Board of Directors
http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org

Re: Akademy 2018 travel support

[Andy Betts]

Hi Lydia,

I applied but I am not sure if it went through. Are you able to check please?

Thank you,

Andy
On 2/9/2018 8:05:34 AM, Lydia Pintscher  wrote:
On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Lydia Pintscher wrote:
> Hey folks :)
>
> I hope you are all excited about Akademy
> (https://akademy.kde.org/2018) in Vienna and have marked August 11th
> to 17th in your calendar.
> In case you need financial support in order to attend Akademy then you
> can apply for that. KDE e.V. has a budget to support a number of
> attendees. There are two rounds this year. The application deadline
> for the first round is March 31st and the deadline for the second
> round is May 31st.
> You can find out more details about travel support at
> https://ev.kde.org/rules/reimbursement_policy.php
> You can submit your request on reimbursements.kde.org


Hey folks :)

Quick reminder about this. The first deadline is at the end of next
month. If you need financial support to come to Akademy please don't
forget to apply.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Vienna.


Cheers
Lydia

--
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
KDE e.V. Board of Directors
http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org

Re: Akademy 2018 travel support

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Lydia Pintscher  wrote:
> Hey folks :)
>
> I hope you are all excited about Akademy
> (https://akademy.kde.org/2018) in Vienna and have marked August 11th
> to 17th in your calendar.
> In case you need financial support in order to attend Akademy then you
> can apply for that. KDE e.V. has a budget to support a number of
> attendees. There are two rounds this year. The application deadline
> for the first round is March 31st and the deadline for the second
> round is May 31st.
> You can find out more details about travel support at
> https://ev.kde.org/rules/reimbursement_policy.php
> You can submit your request on reimbursements.kde.org


Hey folks :)

Quick reminder about this. The first deadline is at the end of next
month. If you need financial support to come to Akademy please don't
forget to apply.

Looking forward to seeing many of you in Vienna.


Cheers
Lydia

-- 
Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher
KDE e.V. Board of Directors
http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org

Re: [kde-community] Re: FOSDEM retrospective

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 11:27:29PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> Well-said. There's two aspects:
>  - why are we here (at this specific event)?

It's the largest free software expo going, it keeps us in contact with
our user and contributor community, if we weren't there or at similar
events it would suggest we weren't a significant part of the free and
open source movement.

>  - what message do we want to spread?

When I organise it I plan demos of the best of KDE's output from the
last year and some spiel to promote it.  Many KDE people ignore the
demos and chat their own lines which is fine too.

Jonathan

Re: FOSDEM retrospective

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday, 8 February 2018 23:27:29 CET Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> Well-said. There's two aspects:
>  - why are we here (at this specific event)?
>  - what message do we want to spread?
> FOSDEM is perhaps a little special: there's a lot of other nerds there, so
> the questions we get are different and more wide-ranging than we might get
> at an industry event. (e.g. activities, e.g. Sanskrit input methods, e.g.
> keyboard layouts with tall enter keys).

What always surprises me about fosdem is that there are genuinely quite a few 
people who attend fosdem and yet haven't hear of KDE (or Krita). There were 
people genuinely did not expect that this software would be free; people who 
thought our stuff is open-core and that we'd ask for money for the really 
useful features.


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