[SM-Discuss] PR/Advertising suggestion

"Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik" ruskie at mages.ath.cx
Sat Jan 19 05:55:20 EST 2008


On 11:46:39 2008-01-19 Alexander Tsamutali <astsmtl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> Here is my little suggestion on how to promote Source Mage. Many
> projects have pages where they collect installation instructions
> for different distributions. I always see Fedora, Ubuntu, Gentoo there,
> but almost never saw Source Mage. So i started to pay attention to this
> matter and submitted installation instructions for some projects. It's a
> win-win situation for us, for upstream and for users. So wherever you
> see such page and there is no Source Mage there, contact upstream and
> ask them to add Source Mage specific installation instructions, often
> this page is on the wiki so you can just register, edit and save.
> 
> Here are examples where Source Mage is listed:
> 
> http://www.globulation2.org/wiki/Download_and_Install#Source_Mage_GNU.2FLinux


>  http://www.extremetuxracer.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installation_FAQ
> http://www.warsow.net/wiki/index.php?title=Installation#Source_Mage
> http://xmonad.org/
> 
> And here is an example where Source Mage is not listed but should be
> there on the first place, because Treeve worked so hard to provide our
> users with kde4 ASAP. IIRC Source Mage supported kde4 since earliest
> beta releases.
> 
> http://www.kde.org/info/4.0.php
> 
> So what do you think about it?
> 

Does this mean you'll be staying with us ;)

Yes this is the kind of thing we need and I usually always notify authors of
apps which I spellified on the info that they have been added and how to
install them in sourcemage... Sometimes it get's onto their install
instructions pages sometimes not...

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Andraž "ruskie" Levstik
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