Re: Marketing, was: Cocoa/Windows parallel dvlpmt

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-02-09 11:36:58 +0000 Philippe C.D. Robert 
<philippe.robert@gmx.net> wrote:

> 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!

I think part of the reason for this is what I mentioned earlier: 
there's no user-friendly summary of the current work written for those 
of us who don't track the code. Bringing that back would be the 
biggest single benefit, allowing writers to write about GNUstep news. 
Help fill my lists of developers and would-be reporters if you can, 
please.

Another part of this is a corollary of the "snowball effect" or 
"critical mass". You can grow pretty fast once you start rolling, but 
you have to put the effort in to start rolling before you grow. In 
other words: at the moment, most editors don't seek out GNUstep 
stories because there aren't many people offering them, so they think 
there's no interest. I know that's fairly weak logic, but it's how it 
seems to work in this chaotic market. We need to nail the "easy" 
outlets first.

I'll write more about this later, if someone wants.

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