Hello, Andi Gutmans wrote: > > 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 think that is wishful thinking. Open Source projects are no different than any other project when it comes to advertising, if it does not get done somehow, the potential users that are not aware of it may not ever hear enough about it. Press releases is a form of free advertisement in the sense that the media that takes it up will spread the news for you at no cost. It should not be the only way to advertise PHP or any other Open Source projects, but definetly one that you should not give up. I think it is beneficial for everybody in the PHP community. > 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. Well, even if php-dev is not willing to support this idea, you at Zend should not stop yourselves from doing it. You have enough karma in the PHP and Open Source community to make new PHP version announcements. BTW, are you providing or willing to provide a RDF source of announcements of PHP and other Zend products? Regards, Manuel Lemos -- 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]
