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Plasma 6 Campaign: Online Demo
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Goal

Attract more user to Plasma by offering a Plasma 6 demo online for users to try.

Rational

We are aiming our Promo 6 to different audiences: those who are already desktop Linux users and those that may tempted to migrate from other platforms. This will give users the chance to try-before-you-buy a Plasma desktop. While some actions (the support members drive, much of the social media messaging, ...) are aimed those who already know us, this will hopefully attract also newcomers, as well as users of other desktops.

TODO

  • Discuss potential solutions to pull this off
  • Figure out resources neccessary
  • Source resources neccessary
  • Execute plan

Caveats

We are still not clear if we will have the computational resources to pull this off. One idea was to get sponsored by a provider that would host the virtual desktops for the duration of the action (maybe a month?). Another was to limit the number of concurrent accesses to a number we could manage.

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paulb created this task.Oct 2 2023, 6:36 PM
Guilhermems added a subscriber: Guilhermems.Oct 2 2023, 8:27 PM

I'm a bit out of the loop so I don't know if this was discussed already, but the KDE Neon download page has a sponsored link pointing to Shells. It's a paid service, but they could possibly offer limited free access to a remote Plasma 6 session in exchange for some promotion for themselves (you know, user registrations on their website so they can capture leads, a sponsored post on KDE social media, etc.)

bcooksley added a comment.Oct 2 2023, 11:47 PM

Most virtual machine hosting providers don't provide any GPU compute capacity by default (in fact all 5 of our CI nodes just have a basic VGA adapter with no 3D capabilities at all) which I imagine won't make for a very good user experience with this demo.

Are we aware of what sort of specifications you would be wanting for each individual instance that is run - and what remote display protocol would you be looking at using?

paulb added subscribers: ognarb, vkrause.Oct 3 2023, 12:20 PM

Aloow me to preface by saying this is an idea brainstormed at the sprint and at the time we did not know if it would be possible to implement or not. At the moment we are at the discovery stage to try and answer that question. It would be coup to have something like this, even if it were working only for a week, but there is now practical way to make it work, we will try something else.

Also, thanks for all your insight and ideas.

@Guilhermems:

Apparently there are some ethical concerns regarding that company. I do not know the exact details, but was advised to be cautious.

@bcooksley :

Most virtual machine hosting providers don't provide any GPU compute capacity by default (in fact all 5 of our CI nodes just have a basic VGA adapter with no 3D capabilities at all) which I imagine won't make for a very good user experience with this demo.

Right.

Are we aware of what sort of specifications you would be wanting for each individual instance that is run - and what remote display protocol would you be looking at using?

Beyond my knowledge. Maybe someone with more competence could chip in here... @ognarb , @Guilhermems , @niccolove , @vkrause ?

paulb closed this task as Wontfix.Mar 28 2024, 7:51 AM