Re: Marketing, was: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

MJ Ray wrote:
> "Philippe C.D. Robert" <philippe.robert@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Unfortunately, as you already mentioned, the GNUstep project is not very=20
> > talented when it comes to marketing :-( Any ideas how to change this?
>
> Maybe not describing the current helpers as "not very talented" would help
> motivate them and attract new marketing helpers?  No-one is going to
> volunteer to help a bunch of sourpusses who just flame them in threads with
> subject lines that marketers probably won't read.  The people marketing
> free software projects that I have had the pleasure of working with
> usually have too little time, rather than lacking any skill.

Sorry, I did not want to demotivate any of the current helpers, this was 
not my intention at all (and in fact I did not phrase it that way, but 
maybe my English is too bad for such subtleties).

> Personally, I'd be happy if developers wrote a little more about what they
> finished, and some people volunteered to collect, summarise and upload it
> to the web. Once upon a time, there were weekly summaries of developments.
> Can we start them again?

This would be excellent, indeed.

> First, I think we need two lists of people:
> 1. who are the active developers and which will write a blog for us?
> 2. who is willing to help blog the work of 1 non-blogging developer?
>
> Please reply...

What GNUstep is IMHO lacking is GNUstep related stories, reports or 
reviews published in non-GNUstep related forums and websites. I think 
that only a few people are aware of the current state of the project 
because almost nobody talks or writes about it!

My $0.02....

-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
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