heck, simple: 1 start a twitter account and get 1000+ followers. post a link. 2 post to digg 3 tell a few high profile bloggers about it. 4 inform writers/editors on tech news sites, like wired.com 5 send notices to computer science departments at universities (there has to be an easy way to reach out to them - AMC?) 6 ? 7 profit.....err, success
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Martin Hollmichel < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > last year we initiated the bug bounty program ( > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/BugBountyProgram and references > below). Obviously we failed in spreading the information about this program, > the feedback was very low. > > Before we extend the program we want to be sure to make it this time > better, I'm thinking of: > * promoting it on the main page (www.openoffice.org) > * add an item on contributung page (contributing.openoffice.org) > * encourage people to blog about it > * many other things > > are there any volunteers available interested in spreading the news ? > Are there any other ideas to make the Program more attractive ? > or should we stop this effort because it's hopeless ? > > Martin > > references: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00145.html > > http://freelancefundraiser.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/openofficeorg-achieves-ten-million-downloads-at-the-end-of-its-beijing-conference/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks...will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." -- Thomas Jefferson "Government big enough to supply everything...is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases" --- Thomas Jefferson www.CampaignForLiberty.org
