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  • From: Pieter Lenaerts <e-type AT cwazy.co.uk>
  • To: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] SMGL advertising
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:21:57 +0100

this is very true
I think the easiest way to do this is letting the section maintainers contact
the maintainers of their packages


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:26:46 +0100
Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net> wrote:

> 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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