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  • From: Flavien Bridault <f.bridault AT fra.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] SMGL advertising
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:13:41 +0100

Hi everyone,

Here I'm back with a question :-) (no more reiser4, I know ;-) ). I was busy
at the end of the meeting yesterday, but I wished first to deal with this at
this moment. Well it's not a question but rather a suggestion.

So all is in the title, if you go on http://www.distrowatch.com, you will see
that SMGL has reached 53th rank over the year (which is not too bad), 63th
over the past six months, 67th over the past three months and...99th rank
over the last month!! Over the last month, we are less popular than Lunar or
Sorcerer, and I'm afraid that we will soon leave the classification (since
only the first hundred are displayed on the main page) !

Well don't worry, I know how silly this classification is made (number of
click per day, one click per IP) but I believe that a lot people watch it
when they want to change their distro. And this will obviously not encourage
them to try Sourcemage.

The new website should indeed made us more attractive.

But I also think about an easy thing that could be done. What is the main
gentoo advertising ?? For me it's the fact that in most of the downloads
section of free softwares, you can find :
Gentoo
emerge software

Why won't we try to do as well ?? Inform maintainers, as soon as we create a
new spell for example (and backwards for older spells), that their software
has been integrated into the "official" grimoire ? That SMGL users can just
do :
cast software

We could name this campaign : "Just cast it" :-p
This would be, imho, an easy way of advertising, and probably one of the
best.
I'm not sure that it would be easy to convince maintainers (I already tried
this is not so easy ;-) ), but we may begin with minor softwares, that just
offer one or two packages... Their maintainer would be more easy to convince
I guess, since they'd like to gain popularity...

I also think to add Sourcemage spells when they are done on kde-look.org
(like
koodock, baghira, superkaramba). This web site has a huge traffic, it would
be not a bad thing to appear on it.

Well, I know these kinds of things probably don't interest the mad geeks you
are :-p, but I personnally think it would be great to give SMGL the rank it
deserves !!!

What do you think ??
--
Flavien Bridault
Source Mage GNU/Linux - Disk Guru

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