Here’s my 2 cents on publicity: do a little and often, and use lots of pictures.
Very few people are tuned into the first broadcast of a new radio station, but more people tune in over time if there is regular good content. So, don’t bust a gut trying to make huge splash for the release. Make a short factual post about the release. Then work on some more content (say a demo, or a brief video of a demo). In both tweets and blog posts, a graphic helps get your message across. So, aim to have an architecture slide ready to tweet in 1 or 2 weeks. And a slide about Quickstep’s memory format (or whatever) in a week after that. Also, do a tweet and a blog post each time a significant feature lands in Quickstep (hopefully at least 2 or 3 per release). Julian > On Mar 27, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Harshad Deshmukh <hars...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: > > Hello folks, > > I am making some noise (a.k.a publicity) about our release on various forums. > Please help us spread the word: > > Hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13962876 Honestly, this is > my first post on HN, so I am not sure how it works. I guess you need to > upvote it to make it more visible? > > Twitter: https://twitter.com/ApacheQuickstep There are a couple of new > tweets. We should probably have a better twitter bio for the project. Right > now it is very brief "Democratizing Data Analytics". Any suggestions? > > I am also writing a blog post on the various storage formats in Quickstep and > how to create them through CREATE statements. I somehow couldn't get jekyll > working on my machine. > > -- > Thanks, > Harshad >
