On 8/7/06, Kathey Marsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How can we make a big splash with the Beta Announcement and follow-up to get users pounding on 10.2 to make sure this is a quality release? I am interested in ideas from the community.
Well, apparently posting to derby-user is not enough. So, if we want additional uptake in the number of testers for a beta release, there's going to have to be some proactive promotion of that beta release. Off the top of my head, getting a beta announcement posted to the following sites came to mind as good avenues for promotion: http://www.apachenews.org/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ http://www.java.net/ - but where? http://www.onjava.com/ (or osdir.com) http://www.theserverside.com/ What would be best is to somehow get it into a venue that feeds into other news channels. For official releases, posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] does the trick. Is that appropriate for a beta announcement? I'm not sure. Incubator projects often announce milestone releases on that list. Is a beta that different? Getting something posted to one of the above-mentioned venues may require a bit of effort on the part of the poster. Ideally, we would want to post in the places most travelled by current derby-users. But, other than derby-user, we don't have any clues on that*. But, that's what I thought of off the top of my head, so I thought I'd throw it out there... andrew * just for fun, i thought of this: http://www.google.com/trends?q=apache+derby
