On 15/02/07, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 09:15 +0100, Rhythmic Fistman wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > How does this integrate with mail? Some lurkers here are happy > getting mail, they mightn't follow a blog. Does that mean > posting things twice? And a third time to our wiki? > And a fourth time to our website? And fifth time to > a newsgroup? And then slashdot and numerous other place .. hmmm...
As a lurker: I'm more than happy to get mail, but a blog would just annoy me (unless I kept getting the mails, and could completely ignore the blog). If the purpose is just to convince people that this isn't a dead project, it might be more effective to post the new binary on the webpage at least once a month, and maybe put some release notes up. (I'm still trying to think of a decent response to the "what should we be doing" question...) ben -- You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy. --Max Rosenlicht ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
