On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Alan Knowles wrote: > This kind of bytes at a nerve when you are hunting for work and almost > nobody mentions PHP here.... > > Anyway, A quick few ideas to throw in the pot.. - Press releases, for > PHP5 pre-alpha, PHP-GTK's, (Derick - srm?) upcomming release etc. which > could be made available - Then a PHP press team??, could be resposnible > for getting it out to the Press in their local countries.. > > I'm would hope that there a few people out there who could help out on > this.. "Call for Volunteers..." - Either writing 'IT Press Friendly' > release announcements, or gathering IT Press contacts, and faxing + > emailing + phone followup on releases...
When Zend first started out we actually offered the other guys in the PHP Group to send out press releases on new versions from the group. We had a PR woman write the press-release and then sent it to the Group for fixing. If I remember correctly they felt that open source projects don't need press releases so it kind of came to a halt. I don't really share that feeling and think that even an open source project can get added exposure by press releases. I think if we can get enough press contacts (it probably shouldn't be too hard if a few people here know the right people) then it would definitely be a good thing. Press releases help because when IT people start seeing press releases all over it sinks in slowly. It shouldn't be too hard to have a couple of people taking care of this and having them send the press releases to php-dev for comments before they go out. Andi -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
