Andrew McIntyre wrote: > 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.
My small contribution: I have a blog on Java.net and I will announce the beta there. A pointer to a "press release" would be a nice thing to have. (BTW: Hi all, I'm back from vacation and trying to catch up here ;-) > > 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 -- Bernt Marius Johnsen, Database Technology Group, Staff Engineer, Technical Lead Derby/Java DB Sun Microsystems, Trondheim, Norway
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