João Saleiro wrote: > Sometimes it looks to me that this list seems a bit lost and divided > without Aral's opinion (which is extremely welcome, and vital!). Let's > try to rearrange the house, and be more practical, starting with the > fulcral questions: > > 1- Do we *need* to focus on "marketing" work to attract more people and > grow the community? > Not really. I mean, all the people that use these projects found them without marketing. Why 'push' the community to grow? If it is good stuff, people will hear, use and be happy. To me, marketing is not needed, especially when t brings more demand that it seems a lot of folks aren't sure they can provide due to other obstacles/goals in their lives. I personally would love to ocntribute to some of these projects and just have not figured out which interests me the most. > 2- Do we *want* to focus on "marketing" work to attract more people and > grow the community? > Again, why is there a necessity to get more people invloved at a faster rate than would normally be achieved by just strengthening existing projects through continued usage? I am asking this to all, not Joao...he just put it out there and I am interested in knowing as well. > 3- Would you invest some of your time creating some "marketing" material > to improve osflash? > I have been doing advertising and design/branding work for about 12 years and would be fine donating some time. I could make myself useful when it comes to print work especially(even though I am not sure why we need to). > Without consense on these questions, we can't give the next step and > decide what to do. > My answer is: 1- yes, 2-yes, 3-yes > What's yours? > > I hope this questions enlighten up the need for a change on the osflash > website (or the creation of a introductory "marketing" site, which i > would prefer). Or maybe not.... > I think they are good questions Joao, and I would love to understand more what is going on with trying to make OSFlash some kind of "business", cause it seems that is what marketing and atracting more folks would spawn. Overall if you attract more people, you will also be attracting more "demands" by users...which seems to be one of the things that spawned this whole thread (ASDT continuance etc)
Thanks in advance to you guys for not flaming me on this :P Rock. > João Saleiro > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
