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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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

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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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