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Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 How to Make Your Program Popular Akademy 2006

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Why do You Program for KDE? Compulsion? Fame? Nice community? To have people use your program? This presentation is for you!

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Some terms of the trade (Wikipedia) Marketing...a [...] function associated with [...] researching, developing, promoting, selling, and distributing a product or service. Promotion...involves disseminating information about a product, product line, brand, or company.

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 The four P's of Marketing Product Servicing the needs of the users Pricing Promotion How to make people aware of the product Placement / distribution How the product reaches the user

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Promotion subcategories Advertising Personal selling Sales promotion Publicity / public relation

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Why does a user run a certain program? User has to need it User has to know about it User has to have access to it It has to be on his computer User has to like it...or be the best / only one of its kind

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Channels for KDE programs Website/SVN (--> KDE Package) --> Linux Distribution (--> Default) --> User Website / SVN --> Download --> User

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Positioning “How you want the users to think about your product.” Quickly now... Name a safe car Name a really luxurious car!

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Positioning “How you want the users to think about your product.” Quickly now... Name a safe car Name a really luxurious car! Did you pick Volvo and Rolls Royce?

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Positioning (2) How did KOffice position itself? OpenOffice can do more OpenOffice is already huge on the market...but KOffice has more (most!) components KOffice has much faster development

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Positioning (3) Different types of positions Fastest “Best” Cheapest Safest High Tech Local You have to think really long term here!

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Positioning (4) We chose: “The Next Big Thing!” Leverages our advantages Is long-term viable Is a good place to be

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Promotion Channels Blogs Tech news websites dot.kde.org! Slashdot, digg, OSNews, Linux Weekly News, ars technica, etc, etc Newspapers / Magazines Conferences Personal contacts!

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Promotion targets Users Developers Linux distributions Journalists All these need different approaches!

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Lower the Barriers!...to usage Usability Documentation Integration...to adaption Get it into a distribution! Make it well-known

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Lower the Barriers! (2)...to developers JJ's (Junior Jobs) IRC channel APIdocs Mentors

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 How to talk to journalists Call them! :-) Be persistent Make their job easy (Lower the barrier) Write their articles for them Produce press releases Maybe even a whole press kit

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Getting started Easy start One step at a time Blogs (easy) Good web page Grab the chances that occur

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Getting warmed up Write articles Write news items Do special events Ex: a GUI competition for the next generation

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 Advanced stuff Create a marketing plan Define a position Write down goals and actions Have somebody responsible Shouldn't do all the work alone Create community

Sebastian Kügler, FrOSCon 2006 Inge Wallin, aKademy 2006 What's next for KOffice? Release of 1.6 Press release Taking the position into account! Tour on the website Tech news websites Release of 2.0 (rewrite with Qt 4.2) Start talking to distributions to get it in Define niches where KOffice is the best (children? other?)