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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] SMGL advertising
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:26:46 +0100

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 11:13:41AM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
[...]
> 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...

For software that actually has such a list on the website it shouldn't
be too hard, i know that at least tvtome already has sourcemage in the
list, and getting that added was a matter of a small conversation with
the tvtome programmer.

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Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
http://www.sourcemage.org




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