openDesktop.org sponsoring project

Hi everyone,

today, we are launching our openDesktop.org sponsoring project.
Aim of this project is to help openDesktop.org, KDE-Look.org, KDE-Apps.org and the other sites to keep it as you know it today and to help us to investigate into further new features, improvements, hosting and projects for our community.

So what exactly is the openDesktop.org sponsoring you may ask. Well, the openDesktop.org sponsoring is a platform for companies and enterprises which want to prominent present their products, services and job offers on the openDesktop.org sites to a large audience of Open source and IT experts. Advantages as a sponsor are free premium job offers, ad banners, mentionings in blogs, news and many more.
At the moment we have over 90 million page views and 2.6 million unique visitors per month.

So If you know a company who wants to support the open source community via our sponsoring project or if you have suggestions for us we're happy to hear from you.
You can also contact us to get the whole feature list and price list. Providing us a sponsor is good for you, too. Each user who help us to find and to acquire a sponsor receive 30% of commission for the first month for each new sponsor as a bonus. More on our “sponsoring Information page” http://openDesktop.org/sponsoring

Cheers
Frank

Knowledge base feature

Hi everyone,
we've noticed that there are just few people who are using our knowledge base/help feature. Many don't even know that we have implemented this feature. A short reminder: every application on openDesktop.org network e.g. kde-apps.org or KDE-look.org can have its own small user generated FAQ. If you have a question or a problem with an application you can post your question together with a description and up to three screenshots. Other can help you with the problem via comments or share tips. And if you found the solutions you can add the answer to your question and mark the problem as solved. The owner of the application has full edit and delete right to the FAQ entries for his application.

Over the time, we hope to build a small user FAQ for every application.
We thought that a lot of people don't associate a knowledge base with our “help” feature. So we decided to rename the tab via a poll decision. Our brainstroming results were FAQ, Knowledge Base, Help, Questions and Answers, Tips and Tricks or Support.

What do you think? Post your opinions as a comment about above names.
Cheers

Frank

Update:

The knowledge base content is also available via the open collaboration services API. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services

We plan to use the data for the Social Desktop in the future. So if you want to write a Plasmoid to query the knowledgebase contact me. :-)

Premium job board and Server-Apps.org

Last year we announced the launch of our new job board for Linux and IT Experts. www.openskillz.com. and www.opendesktop.org/jobs

The idea is to help Linux experts and open source companies to come together. The job offers and candidates are accessible and integrated in all websites of the openDesktop.org network. For example KDE-Look.org, Qt-apps.org or GNOME-Look.org.
Everybody can publish job offers or their own CV for free. The job board is not only for useful for companies and job seekers. Free software projects can also post open tasks and jobs for free. For example if a free software developer or projects needs some artwork or somebody to test the app or write documentation you can post an open job on the board. The job board can also be used to find freelancers or interns.

A few days ago we launched premium job offers for companies. This job offers are not for free but have a bigger impact than the
free job offers. The premium job are featured on the homepages and are including in system emails and RSS feeds.

We hope to bring companies and free software developers closer together and stimulate the Linux and open source IT market.
So if you know a company who is looking for Linux and IT experts please recommend our job board to them. :-)

Today we launchend Server-Apps.org. I got requests from users for a website for server applications like web- or mail-servers.
You can also upload you web applications. For example PHP or Ruby WebApps are welcome. You can publish your work, get feedback from users and other developers.
What do you think about the categories? As usual we are open for suggestions. :-)

Your account form the other openDesktop.org websites works also on Server-Apps.org.

What do you think?

One more thing. Because of the difficult advertising market we have difficulties to pay our running costs. We have included advertising into our RSS feeds and hope to compensate the shrining advertising market. We hope that this is not bothersome for you.