> > skaller wrote: > > The problem is basically: how do a bunch of geeks get enough > > marketing types interested to do the required advocacy work > > to get even more people. > > > > What about the blog route? The main reason I was drawn to felix in the > first place was all your lengthy emails to the ocaml mailing list. > People going to the felix website might not realize that the mailing > list is pretty active since no news ends up on the felix page. If we > blogged our bigger discussions, folks might realize that felix isn't > just another dead project.
That's a great idea, Erick. Google loves blogs, and so do people. John's posts are already top notch blog material, being pithy (sometimes overly so) and opionated. Compare with joelonsoftware and the jwz blogs (in fact the former IS the marketing machine of Joel Spolsky's software company, highest-brow publicity I ever read and extremely programmer attractive because the essays posted there advocate, amongst other things, giving programmers lush offices, dual monitors, etc, etc). Anyway, the main differences are: 1) John posts his usual missives, to which others reply, and 2) it would be easier to reply to (and would crop up in google, I'm still only finding gmane/comp.c++ cross postings from 2004 when I search felix) - there's no way blog registration could be WORSE than sourceforge's stuff - it's really unfriendly and an information barrier. We need to remove barriers to knowing about and using felix. So, how is it done? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
