[Commons-l] KDE 4.0 Release Event and Commons Promotion

[Eugene Zelenko]

Hi!

I attended KDE 4.0 release event
(http://www.kde.org/kde-4.0-release-event/) today. Event was great
itself and particularly as opportunity to promote Commons.

If I'm not mistaken 2 years ago I read announcement about
collaboration between Wikimedia Foundation and KDE for creating web
services to use Wikimedia project content in KDE applications. However
as I talked with several developers I didn't noticed big awareness of
our free content. So I made some advertisement :-):

* kde-edu could have biggest benefits of collaboration: we have
pronunciation files, photos, SVG flags/maps/etc. Also kde-edu could
use content of wiktionary.org/omegawiki.org.
* KOffice could use Commons content as clip art (especially SVGs).
* Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble/) could include GeoCommons by default.
* And of course desktop wallpapers, especially from featured pictures.

However I'm not sure how well MediaWiki API suited for 3-rd party
usage and of course Commons search should be improved.

KDE 4.0 is ported to MacOS X and Windows, so integration of our
content could make good promotion for us.

Also Jeremy (of kde-edu) mentioned that Kalzium
(http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/) uses open format for 3D molecules
storage. I think 3D viewer for chemical data will be great addition
for chemistry articles. So will be good idea to investigate this.

I also want to ask other Commoners to attend similar open source/open
content events for promoting our project and generating even greater
idea how to use our content.

With best regards,
Eugene.

PS

More portraits of KDE developers will follow. Unfortunately Google
prohibited to take picture inside building.