On Thursday 26 June 2008, Malte Dik wrote: > Well, I'm not a person asked, but I'll add to the conversation anyway... :> thanks for joining; i agree with pretty much everything you wrote (except the parts i don't ;) > I wrote the above in the morning. The reason I didn't send it was the > missing 'someone' between KDE and the users spreading the word. There's this is where the idea for a for-the-users, by-the-users KDE Users Advisory Council could come in: a small group of people (10? 15?) from the more experienced users you mention that can serve as a liaison. let the marketing team handle the press, but for our user base that is, as you note, spread out across many sites and communities out there, such an advisory council could be managable (time-wise) for the KDE development community to interface with, and would be able to coordinate information for the user base. i do think all the necessary human pieces exist "out there" on the internet, it just needs some organization. > And to the wiki-idea: http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE4 > It was last edited december 2007. Forget it. It won't work. and yet techbase works really rather well. what's the difference? management. a wiki isn't magic: it needs tending, it needs care, it needs an editorial board of some sort to keep it going nicely. a user info centric wiki run like techbase is would, imho, work wonderfully. unlike wiki.kde.org (where the software works fine, but the content doesn't) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Trolltech
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