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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] SMGL advertising
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 22:53:08 -0800

> 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) !
>

Currently we're not 99, we're 90 [0], which is above lunar, but
below sorcerer. The one week rating [1] (not advertised as a clickable
link but still accessable) has us a little higher at 79, above sorcerer,
lunar, rock and onebase. Not that im really happy with those ratings either.

Theres two big things (I think) we can do to get our rating up on distrowatch.

1) Have a steady stream of (high quality) iso's coming out, this
amounts to free advertising for us, each iso gives us a paragraph on their
news, we got quite a few hits last time around...but this is dependent on
our current in house problems with the iso generation being solved. We're
really lacking a "team effort" here, we have several individuals working
essentially on their own, and not much input from the leads. Hopefully
this can be taken care of soon.

We cannot however have poor quality iso's coming out (or even isos
that can only be made by one person who could get hit by a truck),
having poor quality isos just turns users away and thus can also give
us a bad reputation.

2) We can /buy/ advertising banners on distrowatch, the rates are fairly
reasonable given that a few of us have jobs. I'd be willing to put in
financial support for our distro given that we solve the current issues
with our installer. It'd be pointless to advertise heavily with our
flagship iso 50% of new users cant even see the menus with due to the
framebuffer bug and having to use the install vga=791 workaround [2].


[0] http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=4
[1] http://distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=1
[2] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7642

-Andrew


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