On Thu, 12 Oct 2017 10:38:14 +0200 Dominik Haumann <dhaum...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> > wrote: > > On maandag 4 september 2017 23:10:34 CEST Dominik Haumann wrote: > > [...] > >> What I would propose to give this a big push is this ambitious > >> goal: At the next Akademy, give every KDE contributor some handy > >> device, and make a workshop day where essentially everyone will > >> install plasma mobile on this. > >> [...] > >> Worth to investigate? > > > > Yes, I think so. > > [...] > > Also, my impression has been that giving people devices for free > > more often than not doesn't result in anything. Some will just use > > them as their phone, keeping android on it, for example, others put > > them on the stack of hardware they may try some time, but never end > > up doing anything. > > [...] > > Certainly very true. > > To counter this, we could combine this with a certain co-payment: > Say 100€ or so. I for one would happily pay this to try things out. > (And the hardware does have its costs after all) I wonder if this is something we should invest KDE funds into. Do you see any other way to finance the gap between these 100€ and the actual retail price? Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org