Thanks, Noah. This is fantastic. Indeed, pmcs@ is a great place to share your success. And, as we're beginning to develop a more formal set of guidelines on how projects can market/promote themselves, the timing is perfect.
Keep up the great work! Bon weekend, Sally = = = = = vox +1 617 921 8656 aux +1 917 725 2133 skype sallykhudairi >________________________________ > From: Noah Slater <[email protected]> >To: TheApacheFoundation . <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, 2 May 2014, 12:19 >Subject: Suggestion: Weekly news for Apache projects > > >[Note the mixing of private and public lists.] > >Hi Sally/marketing folks, > >I'd thought I'd give you a heads up about how well Weekly News blog >posts are going for a few Apache projects in the hopes that other >people are inspired to do the same. > >It all started with CloudStack: > >http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-cloudstack-dev/201301.mbox/%3c1357924012.3913.140661176333021.1fd4e...@webmail.messagingengine.com%3E > >And then we brought it to CouchDB: > >https://blogs.apache.org/couchdb/entry/couchdb_weekly_news_may_1 > >It's been a massive success in our community. We've had lots of >positive feedback, and our blog remains one of the most popular blogs >across the whole foundation. > >Recently, OpenOffice have started to do one too: > >https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_weekly_news_2 > >Interesting observation: the three projects doing weekly news now are >the only three Apache projects with marketing@ lists. Perhaps there's >a link between how much a project is thinking about marketing, and how >likely they are to do this sort of thing (which is a combination of >content marketing and community outreach). > >Today's pageview stats across the foundation: > >OOo, 6636 >foundation, 5061 >flex, 781 >couchdb, 578 >cloudstack, 466 > >Coincidence that the three projects with a focus on marketing and >regular blogging are in the top five there? > >Anyway, I think it's a neat idea, and I think other projects could >benefit from a similar sort of activity. > >Each blog post is an opportunity to promote the project across social >media and link sharing sites. They get a lot of traffic and help >summarise conversation and happenings from around the community. > >I'd like to share this with more than just the press list. Where >should I take it? Is the pmcs@ list a good fit? > >Thanks! > >-- >Noah Slater >https://twitter.com/nslater > > >
