>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Featured: wvWare-40 >Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:50:19 -0700 > >Hello, > >My name is Patrick McGovern and I manage SourceForge.net. As one of our >most active projects, I'm writing to you because we are rolling out a plan >in which will be promoting individual projects on SourceForge, on the OSDN >network, and in the press. > >This promotion will help projects such as yours gain more visibility, get >more people using the project's code, and ultimately increase the success >of your project as a whole. (more feedback, downloads, code submissions >etc.) > >'Featured Project of the week' is our first program that will be rolled >out during the May time frame. With FPOTW we will be spotlighting an >active project on SourceForge that has a unique value to Open Source and >the community as a whole. The weekly project selected will be displayed >on the front page of SourceForge, it will have banners displayed on the >OSDN network (SourceForge.net, Freshmeat.net, Slashdot.org, etc.) and it >will be brought to the attention of the press (trade publications, etc.) >encouraging them to write about it. > >I'm writing this email to first see if you have interest in increasing >your visibility....and if so, get some information from you that will help >us promote your project. > >A couple of things: There is zero cost in this promotion to you. We are >happy to do it, and it also promotes SourceForge which benefits us all. >The information you supply below, will not be private. Assuming you want >to be promoted, we will use the information in every way possible to >promote your project and SourceForge. This includes using the quotes on >the site, on banners, giving them to the press etc. Also we will not be >promoting every project. So replying to this email does not guarantee >that your project will be promoted in this program, but it makes it vastly >more likely. > >Please reply to this email ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and fill in >the form below. If you have any specific questions, you can contact me >directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you. > > > >Are you interested in being promoted by SourceForge and the OSDN >network? >1) ______ (Yes/No) > > > >Would you like to be considered for Project of the Week on SF? >2) ______ (Yes/NO) > > >Name of Project 3) ________ > > >Number of Key Developers 4) ________ > > >Lead Developer/point of contact ________________ > > >Date the Project was started (not the SF start date all though they may >be the same. 5) ___________ > > >Why did you choose SourceForge to host your project? >6) > > >What unique value does your project have to Open Source and/or the >community as a whole? >7) > > >If we made a banner about your project, with crisp, dynamic words that >excited people about your project and explained a little of what it >is....what would those words be? Keep it short...it's a banner after >all. >8) > > > >What category is your project in the Trove Map? (Yeah I could look...but >it's easier to ask) >9) > > >Why did you choose SourceForge to host your project? (no more then 10 >sentences) >10) > > > >Short quote on why SourceForge is great (assuming you feel this way >:-). This is a quote we'll use in a couple of places. Less then ~20 >words. >11) > > >What name should we associate with the quote above....ie... >Barry White, Deep Voice Project. >12) > > > >Would you be available to talk to the press directly for quotes, an >interview, or story? >13) (yes/no) > > > >If yes, what is the best email/or phone number to reach you to discuss >the project. Note if phone number, we will not publish the number on >the site. We will only give it out if requested for contact info by the >press. >14) > > >For the Featured project of the week....is there a particular upcoming >software release or event that would be ideal to coincide with the >promotion? If so, what is the event and the approximate time frame this >would happen. (I know it's hard to guesstimate release dates...) >15) > > >Anything else you want to mention? About your project or SourceForge? >16) > > > >I want to thank you for your time. If you have any questions, please >feel free to email me. > > >Thank you. > >Pat- _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
