> As my programming skills are limited, I'm only trying to promote the use
> of Plucker the best way I can, by providing quality ebooks that will
> hopefully attract more people to the application.
And that you have.
Our average daily hits to the site have doubled and stayed constant
over the past three weeks or so.
> Last I checked Palmgear was "The One Stop Source for Your Palm Connected
> Organizer" this includes documents, right? They have a whole category
> just for Episode Guides for crying-out-loud.
Palmgear tends to "cater" to a very certain group of submitters and
downloaders. I find that it is very 'cliquey' there. If your stuff doesn't fit
into very specific categories or the likes of very specific users, it seems to
eventually vanish from their server.
> I've had almost 1,000 downloads for the 9 books I've posted on Palmgear in
> less than two months, maybe not huge, but seems like an accomplishment to
> me for older public domain works.
How about pointing people in a newsgroup to your ebook site? Perhaps
alt.ebooks or alt.binaries.e-book.palm (keep the books submitted or posted
legal, of course).
> I won't be posting any more docs to Palmgear, I've set up a web page to do
> so, but thought that the more Plucker content out there the better...
Let's just point users to the website, and when they follow the links
to the Plucker webpage, they'll hop on over to your page as well.
This might be another alternative: What if we post a few of your top
books on the Samples page, with a direct link under each to your website for
now? Grab a screenshot of the story, and I'll make the submission. One of my
goals for the very-near future is to host a web-based submission for users to
post content (books, pdb's and urls ) to the server, add a comment block to
them, categorize them, and allow other users to take advantage of their
findings.
> I apologize to everyone for posting this to the mailing list, but felt
> compelled to do so. I love Open Source, but everytime I try to help, I
> get shot down. I'm sure everyone isn't like this.
No, not everyone is like this. In searching the archives, the original
poster of that rant (and he has been spoken to privately already) was not
someone who has ever posted to the Plucker Development list, so I can't say
that he's been a contributor to the project's development.
Do not take this as a model for the open source community. There are
some people who do nothing but complain, and there are others who do something
about it. We are in the latter category.
One thing that I hear a lot in the open source community is complaints
from users saying "You should add this..." or "Can you do that.." and what
people fail to realize is that open source software, though useful to all, is
mostly useful to the developers who write it. We don't get paid for this, and
we do it in our spare time. All of us have day jobs too. If someone finds it
useful, GREAT! If they don't, we are not "committed" to fixing it at all,
though we do.
People who don't want to contribute, and want to just whine and moan,
can sit in the back and wait, and whine. They will be ignored.
> Thanks to Dave, Michael, and others who've made a superior application, I
> appreciate all you do.
Let's not forget everyone here, without which this project would not
have gotten off the ground: Mark Lillywhite, Bill Janssen, Chris Hawks, Holger
Duerer, Dirk Heiser, Alexander Wagner, and others. Without the strength of the
team (and we've been through a lot of ups and downs, believe me =), this could
not have succeeded this well this fast.
/d
