During the Desktop Summit we had a BoF KDE France in order to discuss a bit on the way to improve promotion of KDE software in France, you can have a resume here.

In  this BoF we have an interesting discussion on the way to collaborate more on promotional material, like presentation, demonstration script...

Of course doing that at the French level is really interesting because we can share the effort to have this and win some time. However I think to have this in a worldwide side can be a great benefits for KDE perhaps some stuff like that already exists but I found nothings.

Presentations

The main goal of presentation is to present a subject at a local area level, for example my LUG in Toulouse, France allow people to present something one Wednesday over two. So if I create a presentation for one of this call I think I can easily share it with other person like someone in Paris and he cans do the same presentation in Paris.

If we imply translator team we can have this kind of initiative all around the world by translating all our presentation material.

Demonstration script

So to do a demonstration in a linux conference or another event is not an easy thing to do. Indeed, there is a question about what I need to present to user and the question is really more complicated because there are lots of kind of users. Some users don't know what is Free Software, others know Free Software but not KDE or can know KDE...

So to doing a demonstration you need to explain some stuff about that to users. And for the demonstration part you also need to focus on user interests. When you know all this point the job is not finished, indeed if my user is interested about general usage of a desktop environment, you probably want to show to him general stuff of KDE like plasma, dolphin... And the more complicated thing come here, ok you have identified what the users want to know about KDE, but now there is a question: How I can do a good demonstration of a KDE product? Sorry I can't answer to this, because I don't have a good answer.

But I think a first way is to show to him the software functionnalities, that's why I suggest to share data about main feature of each KDE application in order to help people to do good demonstration of KDE software like a bullet list for each one.

A second way can be to share some videos on the way to presents KDE software but in my opinion that's too difficult to maintain videos with latest KDE things.Actually that is more easy to add a point to a list than a video.

Thanks for reading it and I hope we can have a good discussion about that in the future, and in the same time I'm joining the KDE-Promo mailing list. And I invite all French speakers who are interested in KDE promotion in France to join kde-events-fr mailing list.