At events, people are often demoing the KDE desktop. At this point if you watch someone
demoing the desktop, there are roughly two options: You see the personal information of that person,
photos, addressbook, documents, or you get an empty, default desktop without example data.
The event teams would benefit if someone could create a fictional KDE user, and populate her
homedirectory with data. Adriaan had a nice idea how to do that:
Take your favorite harmless book – say, something with Sherlock Holmes – and create a user
on your system “watson”. Populate the KDE data for that user from the book, google a few images,
take a photo of a landscape, tar up that user dir, done.
The amount of work involved with that is probably about one evening, yet someone has to do
it. I can imagine that this kind of a task is fun, and that people will be willing to help you with
material and ideas. Collect a couple of documents to show off in KOffice, populate the addressbook,
find some free mp3 or ogg files and so on, there’s room for your ideas
So if you have a little spare time and would help out the people that are demoing KDE at
events, send an email to kde-promo@kde.org
and volunteer for creating the role model KDE user!