2013/12/6 Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> > Hi. > > > On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:26:57 +0000, Duncan Jones wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Stack Overflow allows open source projects to create a free advert to >> encourage participation in their project. >> > > This is certainly worth exploring.
If you're willing to do this, go for it! > > > The rules are clearly >> explained in the following post: >> >> http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/210389/open-source- >> advertising-sidebar-1h-2014. >> >> In summary, we create a 220x250 image that encourages participation in >> Apache Commons. We then post it as an answer to that thread and it >> will be served up automatically to Stack Overflow users (provided we >> receive enough up-votes). >> >> I'm happy to do this on behalf of Apache Commons, but I wanted feedback >> on: >> >> - Whether we want to do this? >> - Is there someone more talented who can do the image work? >> >> Last time this advertising spree was organised >> >> (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/195823/open- >> source-advertising-sidebar-2h-2013) >> there were only 8 participants. We should get in on this. >> > > Another way to make the projects more visible is to edit Wikipedia entries > that refer to implementations in various programming languages of the > concept > explained in the article. > [I mentioned this some time ago, but there were zero comment about > usefulness or > feasibility (I don't know how easy it is to become a Wikipedia editor).] > I think I've commented on this (or maybe I wanted to, but forgot it ;-). My thoughts on this: do it! :-) Anybody can edit wikipedia pages. You don't even need a user account for it. There are some exceptions to this rule, but I don't think the pages you have in mind fall into this category. > > > Regards, > Gilles > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
