On Wednesday, 27. May 2009 22:37:19 Alessandro Mosca wrote: > it's just words, anyway..
Words are important, and so is your feedback on them. Words can excite people for a project or make them shy away from it - before even looking at its technical details. And the free software community is still learning to use (normal) words. Take KDE as example: since they begun doing more and more professional marketing they became more and more visible for non-involved computer users - and since they use freedom as the major argumentation for using KDE instead of a proprietary environment, they are helping the whole free software community in the process. I hope we'll live to see the day when new major releases of important free software projects regularly make it to the frontpage of mainstream newspapers. Best wishes, Arne Disclaimer: "professional marketing" overshoots a bit. They write texts and send them to magazines. Also they have clear Roadmaps for some projects and write on their website what they archieve (see http://dot.kde.org). All in all it means, getting information about what they do to regular users and interested people instead of forcing people to subscribe to mailing lists or dig into archives to find information. Which gets me to an important point: We should write once a months or so about improvements of the Hurd. A two line news entry suffices to show people that the Hurd is active and a project worth contributing to. Best wishes, Arne --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- - singing a part of the history of free software - http://infinite-hands.draketo.de
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