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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] PR Team Proposal
  • Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 09:02:08 -0700

Quoting Alex Smith <alex AT alexsmith.org>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm Alex Smith, better known as HauntedUnix. I've been using Source Mage
> GNU/Linux for around four months. After a happy period as a user, I
> hope to give something back to the community :)
>
> Following recent posts to the ML, I thought I had better get this out
> quickly. ;)
>
> I've found, after repeated attempts at learning to program, it'll never be
> my forte. I've instead decided, to try and devote myself in some way to
> promoting (and of course evangelising) Sourcemage GNU/Linux.
>
> Thus I propose the creation of a PR Team for SMGL.
> I have a number of initiatives which I hope to integrate into the
> immediate future of Sourcemage. Freematrix Streaming Media (#Freematrix,
> http://freematrix.us) have expressed an interest in the profiling of our
> project. After conferring with Kye Lewis, the Project Leader of
> Freematrix, I have established, what I hope, could be an important
> relationship for the distribution. I believe this could be a key event to
> gain a possible influx of new developers, which I feel will be important
> in the time leading up to the release of 1.0 due to Freematrix's target
> audience, the geek populus of Freenode :)
>
>
> Despite Kinetix doing a fantastic job maintaining the current
> homepage(s) for SMGL, I believe that the content could do with a fairly
> overdue cleanup. One of my highest priorities is making the website more
> accessible, (although, I could never dream of the 404 page being
> replaced -- http://sourcemage.org/404.html ). I've seen the recent
> modifications which one of the users in #sourcemage has been attempting,
> but steps still can be made to improve the site, and I encourage you all
> to comment upon the site at http://www.sourcemage.juanzo.org/ .
>
> I hope to work with the other Team Leads to coordinate press release
> information. I will be setting up relationships with LXF and other
> Linux-targeted magazines, and technology based new sites for further
> promotion, regarding both our release schedule, and and other SMGL-key
> issues (Sorcery, etc). I believe that by publicizing SMGL's releases we
> can garner more users and developers to further our work, however I must
> stress that action must be taken sooner rather than later.
>
> I'd like to spend the time leading up to our 1.0 release increasing the
> developer base, I believe this could be done by incorporating things which
> would, in the opinion of our audience, be of great importance. The
> finalising of SELinux has already attracted some, whereas the improvement
> of the wonderful Prometheus project, has tagged interest from far and
> wide.
>
>
> I have a preliminary list of places which I'd like to target (Such as the
> SELinux community, DistroWatch (cough), LinuxWeeklyNews, etc), which I
> will be posting developer focused information, such as the recruitment of
> new developers, possible opportunities for learning to program, etc.).
>
> During the release and build up of the 1.0, I hope to, working together
> with US, European, and other Linux based magazine and other large audience
> news sources, create a great amount of press regarding the distribution.
> This will hopefully create a swell of new users for the 1.0 release, and
> put us in a stead for a future as a prosperous, well known distribution,
> rather than a hobbyist distro.
> I'd also like to have weekly updates of SMGL news (Packages,
> Sorcery fixes, upcoming notes for spells, Sorcery, ISOs). Again, an
> influx of users or developers would hopefully follow :)
>
> Following the 1.0 release, the only way to progress is 'up', I hope to
> continue with increasing the popularity of Souce Mage GNU/Linux, and
> ensure that it will be the number one consideration for source based
> distributions.

Any more questions/comments/ideas for the proposed PR Team? Is anyone against
us
having a team for spreading the word?

-sandalle

--
Eric Sandall | Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us PGP: 0xA8EFDD61 | http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/ | SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/ #196285 | http://www.shock.wsu.edu/

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