On 20/07/17 16:09, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017, Juha Manninen via Lazarus wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 2:39 PM, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> IMO we should give the Lazarus foundation more importance/advertisement. >> >> It should be the other way around. The foundation should advertise the >> project it is associated with. > > It works both ways, actually. > >> That is what foundations do with other projects. >> Sometimes advertising requires money and the donations become handy. >> So far the foundation has funded development of Pascal-Javascript converter. >> There is no effort for PR or public visibility. >> I did not get any answer from foundation members in Google+ forum >> about this issue. > > Quite possible. I am not on the forum. > >> I still hope the PR work will come at some point. > > As said, I am open for suggestions. > > Michael.
At times I took to send the announcements of new versions of FPC and/or Lazarus to lwn.net a couple of times - maybe the Foundation could take to increase FPC's and Lazarus's visibility over there? Note there is a lot of bias there, towards mostly c-likes and their compilers (and java, perl, python, haskell, rust, and other obscure langi used by 2 people in the world, /s ) (after all, the staple of that site is still Linux Kernel and 'Desktop Systems' development) OTOH it is read by professionals - also ones who still may be thinking, that Pascal is stuck in the 90's - maybe it's time to start proving them wrong ? To some people out there, it would be like a Whole New World ... They could easily ignore me, puny human that I am (not even a subscriber, just enjoying reading LWN)... They shan't ignore you that easy, as you're a proper Foundation :) -L. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
