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  • From: Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Public Relations article
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:37:49 +0200

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:14:54AM +0200, Jaanus Heeringson wrote:
> Eric Sandall wrote:
>
> >This[0] might be interesting for some of us. ;) Perhaps I can get SMGL on
> >the
> >"radar".
> >
> That is a pretty good article to get started, but there might be some
> other things you might consider also:
>
> Currently the SMGL project is mainly content and not much presentation.
> There is a working distro, but you really don't get that impression when
> landing och www.sourcemage.org. To make it a bit more attractive you
> might consider improving the presentation, namly logo, website etc (no
> offense meant for those who created them). If the presentation of the
> project is poor a lot of people, even developers, won't get past that
> point to the actually consider the content.
>
> The reason I bring it up is that I do marketing for a living, and it
> looks like I finally have some spare time on my hands. I'm one of those
> strange types that work as both Professional Designer and Developer, and
> my main area of expertise is branding and interaction design. If it is
> desireable I could put together a proposal for what I consider needs to
> be done to enhance the presentation of the project, and then also do
> some of the actual work :) based on your feedback.
>
> I have considerabel experience with SMGL since I came on the train
> during the original Sorcery project. Unforunetly I have not contributed
> much historically, mainly since i have not found the time to take the
> rough edges of my spells, but maby I can do it now.
>
> I have a couple of servers running SMGL and will be moving them to a
> co-location facility in the coming months. The servers are tuned for
> running PHP5, MySQL (4.11), Postfix and Cyrus-imap, so if there is need
> to deploy a new website on this platform, I will donate space & bw.
>
I am sure that both Eric Sandall (PL) and Jason Flatt (web) would love
this offer... I know I do! ;-)

My opinion is just that as I am no longer leading anything here, so for
what it's worth, thanks for the offer.

erics




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