Hi again and thanks for the response. Really good points you all and I admit one reason I wrote was to stir up the Jabber kettle a bit:-) The Advocacy JIG is a great idea.
"If you are chatting with those people anyways, just mention Jabber to them yourself." I agree that's the proper way to spread Jabber but... I've noticed that when I do this people tend to get really excited only to be disappointed by how much registration and installation stuff they have to get through to get the whole thing working. And then the gateway they're trying to use go down and they don't know why (they can't even find out if the gateway is down or what's causing the problems) and they don't know what to do. This makes people return to where they came from:-( Transport registration, installation and support definitely needs to be optimized. "One simple suggestion would be to say start showing small ads on sites that Open Source folks frequent (like O'Reilly sites, Slashdot, Freshmeat etc). With the help of people like Tim O'Reilly, Craig Burton, Dave Winer, Doc Searls etc (all Jabber enthusiasts), I am sure we can start getting the word around and become more noticeable. My 0.02 paise." Why don't we make a "Download Jabber now!" sticker that anyone can put on their site and that leads directly to a download/registration page. Looking forward to attending Advocacy meetings:-) Rikard _____________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? se.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
