Blog is a funny word. If you repeat it fast enough while speaking aloud, you make a noise previously only known to the muppets. Blogblogblogblog... The people at the table here are looking at me strange.
Anyway, day 2 was, for the most part, slower than the first. This was possibly due to the German beer consumed last night by a number of our party. Nevertheless, Cornelius arrived and took us to task on choosing names for things that are now needing a name. More to be announced once we give the affected internal community some chance for feedback.
Also, the kde.org web remake is underway, with my hand-wavy mockups somehow being accepted, but for no good reason that I can tell. I'm not an artist, but I can draw boxes on a whiteboard with the best of them :P Hopefully we can get a few mockups up and available soon, coinciding with the new branding efforts. This meeting has essentially become branding central, and we're getting into hard core marketing mode.
We had some conversations about things we can do to convert users to contributors, as well as some vocabulary lessons courtesy of Kenny. Generally speaking, we will be using contributor in place of developer in all official outreach and documentation (where reasonable) in order to emphasize that we are a wider community than just coders. I mean, not everyone needs to be a clone of David Faure in order to contribute to KDE. We have some good ideas for this, which I'll write up more officially in the next few days for the dot.
Additionally, we will likely be using the html 5 video tag in places on the website update, with reasonable fallbacks to a static image with the link to the videos for those browsers not supporting video. The good news is that the KDE Software Compilation (TM) will likely support the video tag in Konqueror with 4.4.
Anyway, need to run for food. I flew half-way around the world for this meeting, and I'm spending most of my time in Germany in a fairly generic board room :P Time for some sausages!
Cheers
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