On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Aleix Pol <aleix...@kde.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Laszlo Papp <lp...@kde.org> wrote: >> Let us get this off-topic out of the highlight thread... >> >>> This gave me the idea, why not setup other KDE offices, by sharing space. I >>> would be very interested in making that happen here in south west of UK >> >> Well, living on the south east of England (London, Cambridge, >> Brighton, etc), I am sceptical even here whether this would be >> sustainable, but if you have a model to keep it going like that, you >> could share that and perhaps others get interested. > > The fact that the office in Barcelona has worked is more complex than > just opening an office and hoping it will work. > It includes the fact that we already had a community going on in > Barcelona, that we had coordination within KDE Spain and BlueSystems > could cover the costs.
Yes, exactly. I could not agree more. This looks different in the UK to me, especially on the south and south east, although I have not lived in here for such a long time. I may be completely off. For what it is worth, I could not even join a KDE release party in here, not only in the city where I live, but even in the big London. This is a different culture as it seems and my scepticism is based on this observation. I am not saying it is bad, it is just different. > Personally, my suggestion today is that you try to organize a small > community and then see where this takes you. > This is the kind of things we do nowadays, not even in the office > because we can't have many people here. > http://www.meetup.com/Barcelona-Free-Software-Users-Hackers/ > > Talk to people, listen to what others have to say and spread the value > we (KDE) are creating. :) Sure, but it is a different category to go to a local hackerspace and speak about KDE to people who are not even experienced about and interested in C++, let alone even Qt, not just KDE. I mean, sure, it is good to go there and spread the words, but it does not make a KDE office all of a sudden in my humble opinion. It is also difficult to keep the spirit up in such an environment with face to face "preaching". _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list kde-community@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
