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**The problem:** KDE software usually has a lot of features not many people know about, and users avoid reading long and boring technical documentation to learn how to use a program. There’s also a new influx of new inexperienced users due to the release of the Steam Deck, and those users don’t have many resources to learn how to use Plasma and other KDE software. KDE tried making videos with tips but those usually take a long time to be made, so not many were produced. **Target publics:** Target public 1: New users of KDE software that are still learning how to use it. This includes Steam Deck users. Target public 2: People that don’t use KDE software yet but would want to find a program to do something specific. **Idea:** As discussed in the Promo Room, it would be good to combine documentation with promotion by creating tutorial articles focusing on KDE software. Those articles should: # Be short and go straight to the point: people’s attention span is short. They won’t read long articles # Use friendly and informal language: This will help communicate with people without sounding technical and boring # Be heavily visual by using screenshots or short videos # Have subtitles for important points: this way the reader can jump to where they need to go. # Focus on common tasks new users might not know how to do within KDE apps # Showcase new or useful features the competition doesn’t have (MS/Apple) # Have a download link to the software being talked about in the article if available (For target public 2). # Link to other relevant articles # Be shared in relevant places, like KDE/Steam Deck’s Reddit pages and other KDE social media # Have relevant keywords for the title, URLs, headers, image filenames/alt text, and meta description to improve search engine discovery. **Discussion:** **Who’s going to write the articles?** This already has an answer: Me and anyone else that feels like writing a tutorial in the promo group. **With what frequency should they be posted?** In the short term I want to write at least one article per week. We should test this to find the ideal frequency. **Where are they going to be posted? KDE Blog? Special page?** ?

**The problem:** KDE software usually has a lot of features not many people know about, and users avoid reading long and boring technical documentation to learn how to use a program. There’s also a new influx of new inexperienced users due to the release of the Steam Deck, and those users don’t have many resources to learn how to use Plasma and other KDE software. KDE tried making videos with tips but those usually take a long time to be made, so not many were produced. **Target publics:** Target public 1: New users of KDE software that are still learning how to use it. This includes Steam Deck users. Target public 2: People that don’t use KDE software yet but would want to find a program to do something specific. **Idea:** As discussed in the Promo Room, it would be good to combine documentation with promotion by creating tutorial articles focusing on KDE software. Those articles should: # Be short and go straight to the point: people’s attention span is short. They won’t read long articles # Use friendly and informal language: This will help communicate with people without sounding technical and boring # Be heavily visual by using screenshots or short videos # Have subtitles for important points: this way the reader can jump to where they need to go. # Focus on common tasks new users might not know how to do within KDE apps # Showcase new or useful features the competition doesn’t have (MS/Apple) # Have a download link to the software being talked about in the article if available (For target public 2). # Link to other relevant articles # Be shared in relevant places, like KDE/Steam Deck’s Reddit pages and other KDE social media # Have relevant keywords for the title, URLs, headers, image filenames/alt text, and meta description to improve search engine discovery. **Discussion:** **Who’s going to write the articles?** This already has an answer: Me and anyone else that feels like writing a tutorial in the promo group. **With what frequency should they be posted?** In the short term, I want to write at least one article per week. We should test this to find the ideal frequency. **Where are they going to be posted? KDE Blog? Special page?** For now, I will post on KDE Wiki. In the future, if this idea takes off and the community shows interest, we can move this to a specialized subdomain in kde.org Eg: tutorials.kde.org

**The problem:** KDE software usually has a lot of features not many people know about, and users avoid reading long and boring technical documentation to learn how to use a program. There’s also a new influx of new inexperienced users due to the release of the Steam Deck, and those users don’t have many resources to learn how to use Plasma and other KDE software. KDE tried making videos with tips but those usually take a long time to be made, so not many were produced. **Target publics:** Target public 1: New users of KDE software that are still learning how to use it. This includes Steam Deck users. Target public 2: People that don’t use KDE software yet but would want to find a program to do something specific. **Idea:** As discussed in the Promo Room, it would be good to combine documentation with promotion by creating tutorial articles focusing on KDE software. Those articles should: # Be short and go straight to the point: people’s attention span is short. They won’t read long articles # Use friendly and informal language: This will help communicate with people without sounding technical and boring # Be heavily visual by using screenshots or short videos # Have subtitles for important points: this way the reader can jump to where they need to go. # Focus on common tasks new users might not know how to do within KDE apps # Showcase new or useful features the competition doesn’t have (MS/Apple) # Have a download link to the software being talked about in the article if available (For target public 2). # Link to other relevant articles # Be shared in relevant places, like KDE/Steam Deck’s Reddit pages and other KDE social media # Have relevant keywords for the title, URLs, headers, image filenames/alt text, and meta description to improve search engine discovery. **Discussion:** **Who’s going to write the articles?** This already has an answer: Me and anyone else that feels like writing a tutorial in the promo group. **With what frequency should they be posted?** In the short term, I want to write at least one article per week. We should test this to find the ideal frequency. **Where are they going to be posted? KDE Blog? Special page?** ? For now, I will post on KDE Wiki. In the future, if this idea takes off and the community shows interest, we can move this to a specialized subdomain in kde.org Eg: tutorials.kde.org