This task is just mainly so I don't completely forget about this

In T16966#301084, @othman wrote:

In T16966#299741, @paulb wrote:

As mentioned in the description, there is a draft document:

https://collaborate.kde.org/s/5GzkA2fXnEgBaGM

The lists are just vague ideas and their items are in no particular order.

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In T16687#299917, @paulb wrote:

Like... carved into a potato? Or made of metal (in Blender)? Give me and example.

another idea for all kind of graphical material: show the Plasma logo (old or new) from different natural, unusual materials - kinda positioning it as something "organic" or custom made, as opposed to properitaryOS that tries to be extremely futuristic, high-tech and trendy

How about something like "Release6" ? companion to "# Plasma6"

Should this include visual elements or just written content?

Carl has worked a lot on the page, so it's not relevant anymore (but I'm still gonna send it because I'm stubborn), but here's an inconsistent mockup for the fundraiser + a countdown.

can you do a yearly one but paid every month?
if not that, a yearly one that also shows how much it'll be per month?

Displaying members right on the /donate page (like the Blender or Krita funds do) can also be an incentive

Not strictly about this campaign, but giving supporting members a badge on Discuss might also help somewhat - also technically maybe impossible?
Or we could even look at incentivizing donating regularly by sending a printed “Thank You” note with a few stickers after large donations, although I imagine that'd be a logistical n̶i̶g̶h̶t̶m̶a̶r̶e̶ challenge.
The simplest change with no likely actual result could be changing the default selection on Donorbox to 'monthly'.

In T16886#298381, @lydia wrote:

I would very much encourage us to focus on making this a supporting membership drive. We are currently in the process of migrating the supporting memberships from CiviCRM to Donorbox and we need to ramp up supporting memberships there: T16325 We should encourage this over simple donations to build up a reliable base of income for the e.V. instead of one-off support.
We could still have a goal associated with it like signing up X supporting members during the campaign.

In T16687#294932, @aronkvh wrote:

idea: a /plasma6 page with a release date countdown, some (but only a few) blog posts, screenshots and KDE's socials?

I had an idea for a countdown page, maybe we could add to that another, "fund-calculator" section

So the actual sprint day is 23, right ?

In T16767#296795, @paulb wrote:

In T16767#296794, @aronkvh wrote:

I suggest September 2nd half (2) or October 1st half (1) to have more than enough time after the sprint to do stuff we won't finish there

Yeah... I think we are all agreeing on that. How do you have it to travel to Berlin, @aronkvh ?

I suggest September 2nd half (2) or October 1st half (1) to have more than enough time after the sprint to do stuff we won't finish there

If we want to do high-level planning for Plasma 6 promo, September might be best (if the release is around December), by November we'd be too late for a lot of things

Mockup for /for/students:

idea: a /plasma6 page with a release date countdown, some (but only a few) blog posts, screenshots and KDE's socials?

In T13726#292016, @loise wrote:

In T13726#292015, @aronkvh wrote:

card suggestions for https://kde.org/for/:

Suggestions/comments:

Creators: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-woman-writing-on-tablet-computer-while-using-laptop-4348401/

This shows Apple products with Apple Software. :) Someone sitting on a PC with KDE and Krita in production use would show what KDE can do.

Kids: https://www.pexels.com/photo/happy-mother-using-laptop-with-daughter-4473892/

This shows a mother using a laptop, not a child using a laptop playing with KDE apps :)

Travelers: https://unsplash.com/photos/CIb3g_RUlb0
Scientists: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-white-laboratory-gown-wearing-black-framed-eyeglasses-8851628/

Mabe a picture of CERN using KDE (which they did and there's pictures) would be great

Developers: https://unsplash.com/photos/O2MdroNurVw

Qt Company should have good images with Qt Code displayed ?

Yes, I know, I'm very KDE biased :) but IMHO Promo should promo using KDE how it's as or more useful than other software, even though most people don't think about images so much and don't interpret it that way.

card suggestions for https://kde.org/for/:

The event starts tomorrow, so maybe next year

just a few more suggestions:
https://unsplash.com/photos/Bhg4x0bQOsE
https://unsplash.com/photos/SGZ5DkDOoRo
https://unsplash.com/photos/Y6I4VvyN_sA
https://unsplash.com/photos/Z6xvxAuWq0k
https://unsplash.com/photos/nyL-rzwP-Mk

@pinheiro 's idea of determining 3 things we want the wallpaper to make you feel would be really useful here because of all the options

Just my 2 cents: we should avoid HDR-looking, oversaturated, overexposed stuff at all costs

fyi: this'd be a workshop or talk. this event doesn't have booths afaik.

Here's a sketch for a homepage for these pages (kde.org/fors)
https://www.figma.com/proto/eAt9FgR1pms5QLKjx93Cn6/KDE4?node-id=109-2&viewport=-3835%2C1448%2C0.9&scaling=min-zoom&page-id=0%3A1%3Ffuid%3D803221739329780991

Is there something we should do differently this time, 5.27 being the last 5.x release?

In the foreseeable future (~2 years) there will be CUPS 3 which will bring a major shift in how printing works on Linux. This will also need our UI to adapt.

The redesign should be probably tied to that then. However, I understood like 10% of that talk 😅

In T15955#284053, @ngraham wrote:

Could it not be super-fast? Super-fast videos give me a headache and create a feeling of panic. I think slowing down and showing each screenshot for 2 or 3 seconds is much nicer.

For video, I'm thinking we should make a really quick trailer (like Paul did for Plasma 5.22 at first) with fast-moving stuff, screenshots, irl footage, fast- paced text etc. and leave the informative part to the article (?)

Here's a rough storyboard. It's pretty basic, but informative and not that hard to create.
Feedback/contributions to the content or editing are very welcome :)

I think we can try a more minimal and primarily informative video this time after a couple of fancier ones.
More 2d, less glass, simple white backgrounds etc.

Thanks, @Guilhermems !
From the top of my head the 4 main ones to focus on could be:

1. Day and night and animated wallpapers
2. Dolphin selection mode
3. Gwenview annotations
4. Better accessibility

Some well-done showreels IMO:
(I know the content is very different, sending them for the editing and pacing):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg6DHIdfW-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgyzl2gV5VI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0siU8hUJsA

(Since I'm not sure I'd be able to go to south France, random ideas:)
obv. I'd recommend Budapest, because it's closer to me and Niccolló, I'm familiar with it, things are cheaper here and there haven't been any KDE things in Hungary, ever iirc.
But since it's far from most of you, a more realistic alternative would be somewhere in Germany, because the 9€ ticket can help save some money.
Even so, if Saumur is more convinient for everyone else, of course I aggre that you should go with that.

My suggestion is to create 2 videos. Why?

• I'd like to go all-in on 3d this time, which means it won't look like the actual UI -> existing users and devs may be confused and dislike the difference
• showing screenshots and explaining new improvements (of UI's tailored to productivity and consistency, not to look trendy) isn't the best way to get a new viewer (esp. one used to proprietary OS's fancy ads) excited about Plasma

That's awesome. It would be great if you joined #kde-promo:kde.org to discuss this.

A centralised page for tips is a good idea. Maybe it would even make sense to migrate userbase articles that need to be rewritten to this new site (for better UX than the wik)

really cool, hovewer KDE Connect isn't avaiable on the Deck