I’m travelling at about 250km/h back to the Netherlands right now, from Darmstadt in Germany
where I’ve met Eva Brucherseifer for a meeting on marketing issues in KDE. We mainly discussed
highly confidential stuff (confidential mainly because not *everyone* should read about the imminent
beginning of our world domination tour already).
After having gone through different angles of scientific strategic analysis, notably market
segmentation, relationship marketing, the techology adaption lifecycle and more applied stuff like
the decision making process in large groups, we came to the conclusion that surprise,
surprise KDE can do much better, and if we use our full potential in more
areas than only developing cutting-edge technology, we really scare of our competitors. Konqi, the little dragon is becoming a dangerous adult dragon!
More interesting recent news, there is now a shared forum for promoting the free desktop, it
has a couple of GNOMIES and some people of the KDE crowd. We’re hoping to share resources and stop dragging the free
desktop into different directions, and thereby wasting resources. It doesn’t make sense anyway to
try to steal from the small piece of pie other friends of the free desktop have. We need to break
into the 90%+ of the desktop market that has not yet been freed. This is one of the first real
results from Portland
and I hope there’s more to come.