Re: [kde-community] Proposal to change to kde.org/download text

2014-07-10 Thread Jos Poortvliet
On Tuesday 08 July 2014 19:55:12 John Layt wrote: > Hi, > > [Posting to community rather than www or promo as it covers all 3 > areas and this seems the best place for bike-shedding without spam > cross-posting.] > > I spent a couple of hours on the weekend trying to walk someone > through instal

[kde-community] Fundraising

2014-07-10 Thread Jos Poortvliet
So, today we finished two fundraisers. Randa and Krita. Randa reached almost Eur 15.000, Krita closed at amost 20K. Congrats to both! I blogged yesterday about how we, imho, fail to reach enough people in our quest for more freedom [1]. That had of course a wider scope - but KDE is a part of th

Re: [kde-community] Fundraising

2014-07-10 Thread John Layt
On 10 July 2014 11:10, Jos Poortvliet wrote: > So, let me be bold and give a suggestion (that isn't new at all [2]): > lets use our *software* to reach out to our users and tell them how they > could help us. > > Right now, we depend on users actively reaching out to us, to read planet > KDE, our

Re: [kde-community] Fundraising

2014-07-10 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dijous, 10 de juliol de 2014, a les 18:08:42, John Layt va escriure: > The simplest would be to add a "Donate to KDE..." item in the Help > menu which would pop-up the donate dialog, which would display the > latest campaigns. This is quick and easy and highly unlikely to annoy > users or distr

Re: [kde-community] Proposal to change to kde.org/download text

2014-07-10 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 8 de juliol de 2014, a les 19:55:12, John Layt va escriure: > Hi, > > [Posting to community rather than www or promo as it covers all 3 > areas and this seems the best place for bike-shedding without spam > cross-posting.] > > I spent a couple of hours on the weekend trying to walk so

Re: [kde-community] Fundraising

2014-07-10 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Thursday, July 10, 2014 22:20:26 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dijous, 10 de juliol de 2014, a les 18:08:42, John Layt va escriure: > > The simplest would be to add a "Donate to KDE..." item in the Help > > menu which would pop-up the donate dialog, which would display the > > latest campaigns.

[kde-community] Downtime notification

2014-07-10 Thread Ben Cooksley
Hi all, To allow for a server move and software upgrade, bugs.kde.org will not be accessible from 18:00 UTC on Friday 11th July. Apologies for any inconvenience. As this will involve a DNS change, you may not be able to access Bugzilla if your DNS has not updated following the server move. Thank

Re: [kde-community] Fundraising

2014-07-10 Thread Martin Konold
Hi Jos, what about the About dialog? IMHO this is the expected location for a "Thank you" and also a "How can I contribute" section. Regards, --martin Am 10.07.2014 12:10 schrieb Jos Poortvliet : > > So, today we finished two fundraisers. Randa and Krita. > > Randa reached almost Eur 15.000,