[SM-Discuss] PR Team Proposal

Alex Smith alex at alexsmith.org
Wed Apr 27 13:23:03 EDT 2005


  Hi everyone,

 I'm Alex Smith, better known as HauntedUnix. I've been using Source Mage
 GNU/Linux for around four months. After a happy period as a user, I
 hope to give something back to the community :)

 Following recent posts to the ML, I thought I had better get this out 
quickly. ;)

 I've found, after repeated attempts at learning to program, it'll never be
 my forte. I've instead decided, to try and devote myself in some way to
 promoting (and of course evangelising) Sourcemage GNU/Linux.

 Thus I propose the creation of a PR Team for SMGL.
 I have a number of initiatives which I hope to integrate into the
 immediate future of Sourcemage. Freematrix Streaming Media (#Freematrix,
 http://freematrix.us) have expressed an interest in the profiling of our
 project. After conferring with Kye Lewis, the Project Leader of
 Freematrix, I have established, what I hope, could be an important
 relationship for the distribution. I believe this could be a key event to
 gain a possible influx of new developers, which I feel will be important
 in the time leading up to the release of 1.0 due to Freematrix's target
 audience, the geek populus of Freenode :)


 Despite Kinetix doing a fantastic job maintaining the current
 homepage(s) for SMGL, I believe that the content could do with a fairly
 overdue cleanup. One of my highest priorities is making the website more
 accessible, (although, I could never dream of the 404 page being
 replaced -- http://sourcemage.org/404.html ). I've seen the recent
 modifications which one of the users in #sourcemage has been attempting,
 but steps still can be made to improve the site, and I encourage you all
 to comment upon the site at http://www.sourcemage.juanzo.org/ .

 I hope to work with the other Team Leads to coordinate press release
 information. I will be setting up relationships with LXF and other
 Linux-targeted magazines, and technology based new sites for further
 promotion, regarding both our release schedule, and and other SMGL-key
 issues (Sorcery, etc). I believe that by publicizing SMGL's releases we
 can garner more users and developers to further our work, however I must
 stress that action must be taken sooner rather than later.

 I'd like to spend the time leading up to our 1.0 release increasing the
 developer base, I believe this could be done by incorporating things which
 would, in the opinion of our audience, be of great importance. The
 finalising of SELinux has already attracted some, whereas the improvement
 of the wonderful Prometheus project, has tagged interest from far and
 wide.


 I have a preliminary list of places which I'd like to target (Such as the
 SELinux community, DistroWatch (cough), LinuxWeeklyNews, etc), which I
 will be posting developer focused information, such as the recruitment of
 new developers, possible opportunities for learning to program, etc.).

 During the release and build up of the 1.0, I hope to, working together
 with US, European, and other Linux based magazine and other large audience
 news sources, create a great amount of press regarding the distribution.
 This will hopefully create a swell of new users for the 1.0 release, and
 put us in a stead for a future as a prosperous, well known distribution,
 rather than a hobbyist distro.
 I'd also like to have weekly updates of SMGL news (Packages,
 Sorcery fixes, upcoming notes for spells, Sorcery, ISOs). Again, an
 influx of users or developers would hopefully follow :)

 Following the 1.0 release, the only way to progress is 'up', I hope to
 continue with increasing the popularity of Souce Mage GNU/Linux, and
 ensure that it will be the number one consideration for source based
 distributions.



-- 
Alex Smith 
<alex at alexsmith.org>

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."



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