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  • From: Anton Kovalyov <simanyay AT gmail.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] SMGL advertising
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:35:04 +0500

IMHO, the first task that we should do is SMGL's good website with a
lot of info and internalization suppor. I can translate every part of
it, except Wiki (i've no time to translate such big articles :( ) to
Russian. Our website is our face to new users

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:38:54 -0600, Jeremy Blosser
<jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org> wrote:
> On Jan 23, Flavien Bridault [f.bridault AT fra.net] wrote:
> > Yes, as Pieter tends to say, the goal is not to say : "We are the nicest,
> > more reliable, more stable distro", but a least that people KNOWS that we
> > exist. And if we go out the distrowatch classification, I fear that
> > we're going to be forgotten... :-(
>
> For what it's worth you're currently getting quite a few new users from my
> company/sphere of influence. We're mostly people who never quite liked
> gentoo to begin with or didn't like the direction it went after it got
> focused on having as many users as possible. Several are just people who
> have been needing to try out Linux (from a sysadmin perspective) and were
> looking for a distro that was good for learning. And we don't plan to just
> be users, either... several of us are already building spells.
>
> I know I'm too new around here to say much, but I just wanted to note that
> if sourcemage wants to stay the great distro for advanced users that it is,
> you don't need to worry much about advertising. The kind of people that
> like this kind of distro are tend to know other people looking for this
> kind of distro, and word of mouth works very well. We certainly didn't
> learn about SMGL from distrowatch or anything like that, we learned about
> it because we needed a better distro and went looking for one.
>
> I do know a bit of what I speak - I have a fair bit of experience with the
> Mutt project. As most of you know it's one of the most popular cli mailers
> among sysadmins. We've never done anything to try get our name out there
> or make sure people know about us... the goal is just to make a mailer that
> works for us, and if other people want something like that they'll find it.
> We certainly don't have any kind of good-looking website, and that's not
> for lack of ability, it's kept basic by design. It wasn't even until
> fairly recently that we had any development information beyond the dev list
> mentioned on the site, because we wanted people to be serious enough to go
> looking for that info before they bothered to get involved.
>
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