Hi, in my experience, it is terribly hard to get new contributors amongst developers and I believe that open source people that focus on marketing are an even rarer species.
Anyway, the "job advertisement" doesn't seem to be taking into account the perspective of those that you wish to recruit. I think the basic question everybody asks is "what is in it for me?" and the message here goes "work, no money". Consider why somebody would be wanting to contribute here. - Can they learn and if so what? - Can they help and if so whom - and does that make the project cool? - Do they get visibility and what for? - Is there a cool community and why is it cool? - anything else? Consider if what you are asking for is attractive. Right now, it looks like you are basically looking for somebody who is already highly motivated and ready to jump in head forwards by creating a long-term! concept and implementing it. This sounds like a hell of work - no fun actually! - just 2 hours per week hard work. Consider demanding less and giving the people a better idea what it is that could actually be done. To be honest, I don't think that any of the above comments will actually help in the short term. But I hope you find them useful anyway. Advertising "jobs" is also a form of marketing and advertising volunteer jobs - well - is particularly hard! If you have the time, you might find this open source book interesting: http://open-advice.org Cheers, -- Richard > On 23.11.2015, at 06:27, Daniel Naber <daniel.na...@languagetool.org> wrote: > > (sending this again, this time also to the forum, twitter etc.) > > Hi, > > LanguageTool needs someone who takes care of its marketing. Developers > are usually not good at marketing, and they are busy with programming > anyway. What would you do? Your task would simply be: > > Make LanguageTool and its add-ons more popular. > > How you do that is up to you. You could blog, improve our website, or > create a long-term concept for marketing and then help making it > reality. Like the developers, you won't get paid with money but with > fame and a languagetool.org email address. You either have experience in > marketing or are eager to learn. You should be able to regularly spend > at least 2 hours per week on it. Who would like to take this job? Please > reply here or to me personally. > > Regards > Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
