Hello, I doing very often researches for not so well known free software. Such things like
Hotot http://hotot.org/ a really cool Twitter client or Turpial http://code.google.com/p/turpial/ another Twitter client or sK1 http://sk1project.org a free vector graphics editor, very cool for prepress process and very often I see the same there, just take a look to the download pages. That are only two examples, there are lot more small but cool software projects out there. So now the question is, do we the right strategy for marketing? Its enough to make talks about or writing endless long release messages? For me it looks its the wrong strategy because we get not really the result we want. What we want is a lot of small software projects using the OBS for packaging there stuff right? As I said I test very often small not so known software, I find a lot of such projects on google code or on canonicals launchpad. Mostly I can find binaries only for ubuntu. 2 possible reasons why the situation so is. 1. they never heard from OBS 2. they have no knowledge about packaging RPM So what to do now? Simple let us make as team for the next release of OBS an direct marketing. I am alone cant do that, because on the end you have to communicate over a little time with the picked projects. So I can do only 4 or 5, bu thats not enough to make a feelable result. So let us make as team a list with interesting projects, with the situation like hotot or sK1. And then make short before the next release an direct marketing. Even we have no success with bring them to use OBS so we know after that why they dont do that. br gnokii -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
