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[Flavien Bridault <f.bridault AT fra.net>]

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 09:02 -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 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?
> 
No, I'm glad that such a team could exists to preach our cause around
the world. I also don't why more users would be a bad thing, as long as
we keep SMGL philosophy...
I'm quite interested in this team and I may be interested in joining it.
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Flavien Bridault
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