Hey Jos,
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Jos Poortvliet <[email protected]> wrote: > We need to do more to promote Qt Project. With Nokia gone, dedicated 'just > promoting Qt' resources are much more limited. For one thing, we need to > build > up a program of going to events and promoting Qt. > > Yes, this was already felt. > pool our resources, we'd be there 5 times as big and we'd all profit from > it. > But that is not an easy thing, some rules are needed. > > Pooling would also allow more representation of the pure community (not company affiliated) which is important for health of the open source project. > There are two ways of doing events: bottom-up and top-down. As companies, > there is a number of events we need to be at, to talk to (potential) > customers. But there are also many events Qt needs to be at, more > community- > focused events. And there is overlap between these two. > > Yes, but that is also dependent on budget, which is, without Nokia, an issue? > We need to think about scenario's on how to deal with these. At least, we > have > to create a Qt materials box and other online materials. That means Qt can > be > presented more easily at events only visited by the community. > > +1 > But more commercial events where we have companies involved, how do we > represent Qt there? If only one company is there, there is no way to > guarantee > they represent Qt and thus they should not be there as the official Qt > project. But at many events, we can do a shared presence. Then, two or more > companies, with or without community volunteers, CAN represent Qt. We need > to > lay down some ground rules for that and have materials etcetera. > > +1 , with that we should always opt to have non company community, as FOSS interests can and should be communicated to user companies, IMHO. > Creating that in advance is hard. We should just 'start'! Organize a > 'simple' > community event like FOSDEM and a basic commercial event. With the first, > we > can see how we can collaborate with community, with the second we can have > companies work together. The rules can be made up while we go and we can > document it then for the future. > > I don't think there's needs to be more real life event to discuss working with the community, we should just scan up for future events and try to apply what you are plotting here. > But it needs steering, who's gonna control this? There will be money > involved: > we have to buy and distribute materials, for example. And later, have a > travel > committee and things like that. Can the Qt Hosting foundation do this? Lars > will look into that. > I'll gladly help, and already have quite some experience in that with organizing the last Qt Summit, volunteering for aKademy and MeeGo. I'm sure everyone here would do the same. > > What is the Qt project in this, is it a meritocracy? Lars officially can > step > in but he wants to not interfere. We need marketing maintainers... The > marketing team has a task here: become a moderator, planner, etcetera. We > need > to get a list of events our partners (commercial and community) want to go > to, > a reporting infrastructure, a way to disseminate money, things like that. > > These days it is all in the clouds, and for handling money, there are several tools and services that can make this a non issue (for example, [0]). > I (jos) offered some help as I've set up a lot of these things in openSUSE, > building the ambassador program. We've got a travel committee, a way of > sending materials, planning and reporting, etcetera. > > sounds great. > > Social media discussion: > Several people now update our official social media channels. But there are > just a few people and we can do better. Growth has a downside: things can > go > wrong and we should have a kind of policy for them. > Kalle will write a proposal of a Social Media account policy: > * for our official project accounts: > ** What is proper and what is not (Content has to be about Qt; no company- > specific promo; no more than 1 message/hour; etc) > * for the planet: what goes, what doesn't. > > Make sure you put this out for review and discussion , as you probably planned to :) > > Have a lot of fun, > Sounds like devdays are much fun! :) Thanks for this, -Sivan [0]: https://holvi.com/
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