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  Launch of SpreadKDE.org Promotional Community Site
KDE Public Relations and Marketing Posted by Sebastian Kügler on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @00:18
from the it's-a-tongue-not-two-bloody-teeth dept.
The KDE marketing group is pleased to announce the release of SpreadKDE.org, the new home for KDE's promotional activities. Such a hub for marketing activities has been sorely lacking in KDE until now, and we consider this site a to be a key milestone in establishing a solid foundation in growing KDE's promotional activity.

In the past, the KDE community has had no centralized location for holding promotional materials or listing related tasks. However, with the release of SpreadKDE.org, we hope to meet and exceed those basic needs by:

  • Providing a singular portal for KDE marketing materials
  • Fostering a community for those interested in promoting KDE
  • Aggregating marketing tasks and connecting those that need help with those who can help
  • Storing related materials and documentation
  • Concentrating and steering future KDE marketing goals
  • Assisting and linking regional KDE groups, from new to established
  • Coordinating KDE-related events

Although quite basic in its initial form, we hope that we can quickly build out the site through participation. Remember that this site belongs to everyone, so please take ownership and:

So whether you have technical skills, a marketing background, or are just interested in lending a hand and learning more, we invite you to join KDE's reinvigorated promotional community.

A special thanks to those who were instrumental in building the SpreadKDE.org site (Tom Chance, Martijn Klingens, and Sebastian Kügler) and to those at the OSU Open Source Lab for graciously hosting our new home.



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Site's not working
by hiasll on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @04:33
This site is not displayed correctly in konqueror. The input form for username and password is too long.

It's working in Firefox.
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  • Re: Site's not working
    by Patcito on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @05:07
    it's working here with Konqueror KDE3.5
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  • Re: Site's not working
    by sebas on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @05:26
    If your fonts are too big, that issue might appear. I can reproduce it if I set my font-size to "Giant, are you blind?!?".

    We'll have to have a look at it though. Thanks for pointing it out.
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    • Re: Site's not working
      by hiasll on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @09:15
      Ok, I pressed "Shrink Font" and now it's displayed correctly. But I don't understand it. When I start a session with a new user it doesn't work neither.

      Btw: Debian Sid/KDE 3.5.1
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    • Re: Site's not working
      by Carlo on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @10:07
      > If your fonts are too big, that issue might appear. I can reproduce it if I set my font-size to "Giant, are you blind?!?".

      I am short-sighted and have to say that it's a pita that the combination of browser/web developers is often unable to assure that the content looks fine with the font size the user chooses. I use Firefox with a 20 pt. and 16 pt. minimum font size and don't consider it very large. And yes - the edit fields exceed the size of the left pane.
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    • Re: Site's not working
      by Anders on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @10:26
      There are two good things to do with your sidebar:
      * relate the sidebar width to the font, eg width: 12em; in the stylesheet
      * use a CSS rule to set the width of the input fields (to 100%). You might need !important to override the rules of the drupal stylesheet.
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    • Re: Site's not working
      by Olaf Jan Schmidt on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @11:05
      I fixed all these issues in the php code for kde.org, but since more and more subsites are moving to different website code, they all appear again now. Oof curse this is fixable, but it requires some attention towards these problems.

      Olaf
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err
by ac on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @07:50
why konqi's teeth are red?!
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  • Re: err
    by ac on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @09:19
    It's blood from feasting on a small gnome :-)
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  • Re: err
    by AC on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @19:39
    I think that's his forked tongue sticking out...?
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    • Re: err
      by Carl on Wednesday 08/Feb/2006, @20:48
      Why is Konqi sticking his tongue out at me? Was it something I said?
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      • Even the story "dept" is about this
        by Hisham on Saturday 11/Feb/2006, @22:21
        Methinks the graphic should definitely be "fixed". Image is important in a popularity campaign.
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it's needed all right..
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @09:22
Even Google is going the way of Gnome:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
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  • Let's be serious...
    by Giacomo on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @09:52
    "Goo-buntu"? These are just rumours...

    However, I'm really NOT impressed by the lack of creativity: "SpreadKDE" sounds like a direct clone of SpreadFirefox. If we can't get anything original even from the name, good luck with getting decent marketing.
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    • Re: Let's be serious...
      by Tom Chance on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @10:48
      What would be the value in picking an original name, rather than one associated with an existing successful grassroots promotion campaign? The tools SpreadKDE offers will be very different to SpreadFirefox, but to me it makes perfect sense to adapt the name. Many people will recognise it, they'll know what SpreadKDE is all about.

      Originality for its own sake isn't a path KDE should ever take.
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      • Re: Let's be serious...
        by Aaron J. Seigo on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @10:18
        .. and this is why Tom is so damn valuable to have around: he Get's It =)
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This needs a link on the front page of KDE.org
by Jon Lee on Tuesday 31/Jan/2006, @09:54
This site, and project really, needs a link on the main www.kde.org site to draw visitors attention. Personally, I think the Solid project, solid.kde.org, and Phonon both need links off the main page as well.

I am really excited to see a project like this get underway and hope that even casual KDE supporters will try to contribute.
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  • Re: This needs a link on the front page of KDE.org
    by Aaron J. Seigo on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @10:19
    plans are being drawn for the publicizing of solid, phonon, etc... they will likely get a website facelift first and then be trotted out one by one as they mature and kde4 draws closer.
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design needs work
by ac on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @09:44
SpreadKDE.org looks like just another KDE corporate website. Boring same old same old KDE design you see everywhere.

Why not make it attractive and distinctive like SpreadFirefox.org? You have to make people excited about KDE, not put them to sleep.
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  • Re: design needs work
    by Tom Chance on Wednesday 01/Feb/2006, @11:19
    We've *love* for someone to come along and make a really attractive design for us! If you're interested, there are a few requirements:

    - It obviously has to be standards compliant (XHTML, CSS)
    - It needs to have a top-menu for main items, and a flexible sidebar (i.e. isn't designed with a specific set of boxes in mind)
    - It needs to comply with the KDE CIG (http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE%20CIG) and integrate graphical elements from the Oxygen artwork (http://www.oxygen-icons.org/)
    - It needs to be accessible and usable

    So if anyone wants to take a crack just send the designs to kde-promo@kde.org
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merchandise?
by hannes hauswedell on Thursday 02/Feb/2006, @07:32
what about selling merchandise, like t-shirts and cups @ spreadKDE(or giving away for free for developers ;) )?
you could make another contest at kde-look to get some ideas... one could offer really different types and styles of t-shirts to attract different kinds of people...
you'd have a lot of addvertising for free :)

also the different kde-projects could make their own (e.g. freebsd-kde or kde-women ...)
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