Hi Sivan, Thanks for your email.
We are looking and planning the best way to work with the community and hard-working contributors. However, it must be noted that since Digia does not have the deep pockets Nokia had, we have to re-evaluate how things were done before and also look to active community companies/organizations to help us with this forward. This is also in planning. For the particular case you mention about Qt Developer Days, a few things to keep in mind here: - the planning for the Qt conference was started by ICS and KDAB months before Digia announced its participation a few weeks ago. Digia is participating as sponsor and co-host this year and not involved in the practicalities of the program set up etc. Apologies for rejection of your talks. - as the state of Qt Developer Days was uncertain for months since Nokia dropped off and the acquisition process happened so quickly, Digia is not in a position to take on community sponsorships at this very moment in time as were rebuilding absolutely everything from the bottom up. -From my understanding, ICS and KDAB were not in the position to include community sponsorship in this year's event. Please contact them directly. Digia does not want to speak on their behalf. We are working on a community program to drive how we work with individual contributors, events, sponsorships together with other active community companies and organizations. We cannot do this alone and need the help from other organizations to keep the Qt community going. Everyone is in an adjustment period and we hope to continue working with you moving forward. Again, apologies for how this has transgressed. We are doing our best to plan forward. Best, KB -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sivan Greenberg Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:08 PM To: Barrios Katherine Cc: [email protected]; Yrvin Knut; Verma Gurudutt Subject: Re: [Marketing] Digia and the comunity for Qt Hi Katherine, Can I then ask what about the important portion of independent hard working strong devoted individual community people in Qt events? For example, I had submitted 4 talk proposals (that I received feedback were very relevant) to the Berlin Qt Dev days but got rejected due to the fact I require travel sponsorship to attend. Needless to say this was disheartening and personally for me, and caused me to fear that Nokia withdrawal from the project flags somewhat drastic change in support of individual community contributors. Otherwise what's your take on that? Cheers, -Sivan On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Barrios Katherine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I thought I would write a short note to let everyone know that, we at Digia, > haven't forgotten about the community and definitely want to work together > with you to help promote Qt. > > > > We have started a project to look for community moderators for our social > media channels. Since we have an incredibly small marketing team compared to > what Nokia had and no web community people, this will take some time, and we > therefore, need your help. > > > > That said, as we are evaluating all the channels, unfinished projects, > projects in the works and more from what we inherited from Nokia, we can't > move as fast as we would want. > > > > Please note that we don't want to in any way make the Qt channels and > promotions, Digia only. This is a misconception and has never been the > intent. > > > > Let's continue the conversation on how to promote Qt together via this Qt > Project marketing mailing list. > > > > Thanks and regards, > > Katherine > > > > Digia, Qt > > > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- -Sivan _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
