> And possibly most importantly of all we need whitepapers of successful deployments flooding promo.

Announcement is written and is here: https://share.kde.org/s/A2i6BCxiZADtJDC

@ngraham will talk with Santiago to get his details. I will talk with Slimbook to get 5.16 onto his prize and give them the details so they can send it to the winner. Santiago will have to wait at least until 11th so he gets the stable version.

Can you provide any other examples? I ask because the content of this account is too far away from our posting style.

Instead of rushing in, why don't we take this as an opportunity to test run how we should judge what new tasks we should take on? When somebody comes along with a new idea, any new idea, we don't really have a protocol that helps us decide if it is a good fit. This may be a good way of practising for future cases.

Why not test at least?

Regarding the use or not of Instagram: Data that we can consider There are 1 billion active users, according to Instagram itself.

I have very little doubt that @alesonmedeiros is an honest and well-intentioned person and I do not believe he will go rogue. I also see your point of view @jriddell and I do not want @alesonmedeiros to loose interest either, but the trial period is not only about that. The trial period that we all agreed on serves several functions:

We want to figure out what we want to achieve with an Instagram account. What we are looking for is to answer the question of how (or if) it helps progress towards achieving any of Promo's long term goals. It may be that Instagram is a very useful tool for that or not useful at all. At this stage we don't know.

In T10979#186052, @alesonmedeiros wrote:

Idea:
KDE as a great project to enter Instagram and have a greater interaction with users (people of different ages and places)

<etc>

I'd prefer we stick to the policies we agreed on, if you don't mind.

Deadline probably June 4.

In T10855#185617, @jriddell wrote:

Final announce taking shape now here
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.16.0.php

Step 1 for the script would be to make a list of the features we want to highlight in the video. Let's brainstorm that and come up with a list here.

• when using someone else's photography as part of your wallpaper, make sure to have the permission to do so

Thanks @ngraham and @skadinna. I'm sure we can make these into valuable nuggets of wisdom.

I hope you considerpoint number 2 as well.

Respected judges @lydia, @skadinna, @ngraham, @filipf, and @GB_2, I have to insist on the "doling out advice" thing. Even if it is one pearl of wisdom at a time, they would make for great social media posts and help keep the interest high. Could you discuss this and come up with... oh, I don't know... 5 things that would help participants? If it your advice is sciency-based, like "don't combine colour X if with colour Y because they clash", or the "busy-background" thing mentioned above, much the better.

In T10875#184485, @afarid wrote:

Some suggestions,

1. Get Blender artists involved by:
   • Write a post about the competition on BlenderNation
   • Write a post about the competition on BlenderArtists
   • Write a tweet tagging @blender and using #b3d and #blender hashtags

In T10875#184398, @ngraham wrote:

Thanks. So @bcooksley, could you add the following to the rules section?

Do not add the Plasma version number into your wallpaper. Any logos or text, such as the (Plasma logo) should be tastefully integrated into the design of the wallpaper itself, not just added on top as text

On the subject of VDG experts sending out advice, I have plenty of opinions and suggestions for improvement but feel uncomfortable expressing them for fear of being seen to pre-judge or prefer certain entries. Thoughts?

In T10875#184383, @ngraham wrote:

@paulb, VDG, would you guys be okay with changing the forum post's rules to have the following?

1. Do not add the Plasma version number into your wallpaper. Any logos or text, such as the (Plasma logo) must be integrated into the design of the wallpaper itself, not just added on top as text

In T10875#184349, @bcooksley wrote:

Sorry, can I please get clarification on what needs to be changed?

Advice could be... :

In T10875#184332, @ngraham wrote:

I'm noticing that a lot of entries have the KDE logo or the Plasma name or version number embedded in it. I feel like this is kind of tacky and not really appropriate given that our prior wallpapers didn't do this, but we didn't make a rule prohibiting it. I'm tempted to recommend that we retroactively do so and ask the people who have submitted such wallpapers to remove those elements. Thoughts?

In T10875#183879, @bcooksley wrote:

I have the power to pin forum posts yes.

I'll check with what we've done for competitions like this in the past, if memory serves we've opened a dedicated category/section within the forum and have enabled the image previews so people can see entries at a glance (see one of the Krita subforums)

In T10875#183867, @GB_2 wrote:

Great, now we can prepare the forum post and social media campaign :-)

In T10875#183863, @ngraham wrote:

So now we just need a yes from @skadinna (if KDE Promo wants a role), with @ndavis as a backup.

@lydia said yes, but she is travelling right now. She'll be here when judging needs to start.

Let's have @skadinna and @lydia on teh jury. I can give up my place no problem

Four members is okay, don't you think? We should make sure @abetts and @ngraham are okay with this before confirming we have a jury

Started the wikipage, although it needs the link to the forum thread. Do we know who can make a post sticky in the forums?

A possible way around that is to require project files. SVGs might be a bit of an issue, but SVGs that don't look right in Inkscape probably weren't made in Inkscape.

Some ideas for rules:

as per a conversation with @jriddell, the latest date to have a decision regarding the wallpaper would be 1st of June, so the ending date must be before that. Would, say, 48 hours be enough time for VDG to reach a final decision?

In T10855#183646, @ngraham wrote:

Amen brotha! Let's do it.

Is the VDG on board with this? Can we get an "Amen!" from their side? When we get that, I can set up an empty page we will start populating with the submissions, and then get somebody to post a sticky message to the forums.

In T10855#183484, @GB_2 wrote:

I think letting people use the forum is the best option, more people see it and can give feedback to wallpapers.

@abetts there is a new version of the text in Promo Team Resources/Akademy/2019/Sponsors/Brochure/. It is called Promo akademy-sponsorship-brochure-2019_AB_PB_ID_KD.odt. It is very similar to the other one, but has @duffus 's corrections.

I used the text I received from Paul.

In T10855#183349, @GB_2 wrote:

Got no response from @kvermette to the email I sent a few days ago. If we want to do the wallpaper contest we should start preparing it now, before it's too late.

I am curious to know where the texts for this version of the brochure came from. Page 3, for example, does not show the text @skadinna and I updated and shared on Share and it contains errors that are not in last year's brochure.

In T10628#183185, @duffus wrote:

Where is the current rendered PDF and I can stick it in the right place on the akademy website?

Wallpaper thoughts:

Promo task: T10855

In T10628#183135, @apol wrote:

Are we happy with the latest pdf? Is it something we can get under akademy.kde.org?

Yeah. I am tied up in the annual report right now, but as soon as I get through that, sure. I'd enjoy the challenge, too.

In T9122#167145, @emateli wrote:

I feel like hosting community projects under the kde.org subdomain would go a long way towards brand recognition(krita.kde.org, kdenlive.kde.org)

Don't worry, @abetts. I am serious when I say the brochure is beautiful. The best yet and will be the yardstick for years to come.