{"id":1306,"date":"2006-11-30T22:51:15","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T20:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/progress\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T22:51:15","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T20:51:15","slug":"progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vizZzion.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tI’ve got a shiny new telephone, a Nokia n73. It has a big display, colorful icons,
\n\t\t\tit can play music, take photos, show images, view pdf files and much more.
\n\t\t\tPlaying around with it tricked me also into the experience that I see my first
\n\t\t\tcomplete freeze of the telephone. In the course of getting the new phone, I also
\n\t\t\thad to buy a memory chip (miniSD, wich I found out is not microSD, or even
\n\t\t\t‘normal’ SD, of course I need the faster version!). I’m serious asking myself
\n\t\t\thow much harder the industry that creates such a mess will make it.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tOn the bright side, I managed, after a long struggle to have some internet shop
\n\t\t\tship me an AMD X2 4600+ for socket 939. They’re quite hard to get. The reason is
\n\t\t\tprobably that if I wanted to upgrade to a new socket AM2 motherboard, I’d also have to
\n\t\t\treplace my graphics card and memory, all less than two years old and more than fast
\n\t\t\tenough for what I’m likely to do with it.\n\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEva already blogged<\/a> about the two two-day
\n\t\t\tmeetings she hosted (thanks!). The Marketing Meeting went really well, especially
\n\t\t\tsince it’s one of the first meetings of this team. We took a lot of notes, which
\n\t\t\thave to be polished and put up on SpreadKDE, we hope to get that done within the week.
\n\t\t\tCheck on kde-promo if you don’t want to miss the progress. :-)
\n\t\t\tIn the course of the first day,
\n\t\t\twe discussed in different session the current state of the art of branding-related
\n\t\t\ttopics in KDE. Target Groups and Community Identity being the most important.
\n\t\t\tWe began the second day with a longer, split-out session. The first group worked
\n\t\t\tout a rough planning of branding-related areas, such as artwork, public relations,
\n\t\t\tcopywriting, …). The second group took an attempt to work out different possible
\n\t\t\ttarget groups for KDE ‘brands’.
\n\t\t\tThe general way to go will be that KDE as it is should become an umbrella brand
\n\t\t\tthat shares (parts of) its Community Identity with different brands such as KOffice,
\n\t\t\tOxygen, Plasma, or the KDE desktop as you use it now, KDE technology as a development
\n\t\t\tplatform and not at least the great and bright community around it.
\n\t\t\tWe structured the Team using the Community Identity as a template. Wade Olson,
\nJürgen
\n\t\t\tGerner and Claire Lotion stepped up and agreed to giving a go to coordinate the effort.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tWe also had presentations about various topics. Jürgen Gerner
\n\t\t\teducated us about Emotional Marketing<\/em>, Christian Bobzin of
\n\t\t\tKonsylo<\/a> gave information Viral Marketing<\/em>.
\n\t\t\tIt’s really exciting to see the team flourish, to see a group of professionals in
\n\t\t\tthat area get together and work out an improved way of presenting a diverse and
\n\t\t\tstrong community such as KDE is.s<\/p>\n

\t\t\tDay 3 and 4 of the DarmstadtMeetings was the Board Meeting we started with a packed
\n\t\t\tagenda. Eva has already written something about it, so I’ll try to cover different
\n\t\t\ttopics here.
\n\t\t\tOn Monday night, we met Carsten from a company named iverse. Carsten works on a way
\n\t\t\tof file and data browsing that involves visual representation of the data, sorted by
\n\t\t\tdifferent characteristics in a 2d space. Check
\n\t\t\tliquidbrowsing.com<\/a>. Carsten told us he’d
\n\t\t\tlike to see those concepts (and maybe code) reappearing in KDE. It’s an exciting
\n\t\t\ttechnology.
\n\t\t\tOn Tuesday, we paid a visit to Wikimedia Deutschland, who have a couple of months ago
\n\t\t\thired an Executive Director who’s handling the daily business Wikimedia, keeping the
\n\t\t\tadministrative part of running a Free Culture project going. Since we have similar
\nplans,
\n\t\t\tArne and Matthias from Wikimedia had a lot of good advice, and good experience
\n\t\t\twith taking this step.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tI’m very happy with both meetings in general, we made great progress in most areas, and
\n\t\t\tmaybe still most important: It was great to see everybody again, and some for the first
\n\t\t\ttime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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