Can we just shut down (delete) the facebook page instead, and put those
efforts into improving our home page and wiki instead? I didn't even
know we were on Facebook. We're spreading ourselves too thin by
maintaining too many sites (we have Ohloh and Wikipedia as well), which
results in them all being poorly done and ends up making it painfully
evident to the world that we're a tiny team. It is better to have
*nothing* than have *something* that is really bad, that highlights that
we're really small. I can't sing, for example, so instead of having
MP3s on my blog of me singing poorly I don't have any MP3's at all, a
much better improvement. Same with JSPWiki leaving Facebook, why look
bad with having 4 followers when you can delete the Facebook page
instead? A nonexistent Facebook page doesn't say anything about our
size. A Facebook page with just 4 follows is bad advertising for us, we
look lousy compared to other Wiki tools that have hundreds of follows.
Yes, if IBM ran a commercial Wiki tool and paid several dozen to work on
it, they might be able to afford to maintain 10 different websites
beautifully. But for a small project like JSPWiki, it would be lunacy
for us to attempt the same, better to have just one or two sites that
are well-nourished than 10 that look crappy.
Glen
On 4/13/2014 3:17 AM, Janne Jalkanen wrote:
Gave you admin access on the FB group :-)
/Janne
On 13 Apr 2014, at 06:31 , Dave Koelmeyer <dave.koelme...@davekoelmeyer.co.nz>
wrote:
On 4/10/2014 8:54 PM, Siegfried Goeschl wrote: Hi folks,
the question at hand is to increase JSPWiki’s publicity - how can we do
that? Unfortunately Open Source also consists of lot of advertising
otherwise no user will ever use it :-)
Really ramping up activity on social networks would be a good idea, Facebook
and Twitter specifically. There is a Facebook page with a whopping four
members, and activity on there is all but dead. Happy to make a time commitment
here to start posting fresh content.
Cheers,
Dave
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