So concerning the book I am open to work on a book proposal with everybody who wants to join. Ideally I would target O'Reilly... the good thing is that we already have the animal right... we just would have to make it O'Reilly compliant and thus have the various scary colours and gradients removed :)
Did a book for IBM Press in the past but I suspect they aren't an ideal candidate. Cheers Daniel On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Karan Malhi <karan.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Wasn't it that we've had all the pieces for ages, but what we truly >> missed was good marketing? I think a book, a couple of articles and >> conference speeches would bring more curious eyes to the project > Jacek, I am glad you bought it up. > > Blogging:- Definitely blogging makes a big difference. I have already > been asked by a couple of folks about TomEE. I am going to blog about > this , the coming weekend. Okay now I said it, now I will have to do > it :). I am planning to write a single paragraph, if I can do more, > that would be cool. > > Conference speeches:- David is doing a tremendous job with conference > speeches @ JavaOne. My big regret is not being able to attend even a > single one of them, even though I am so close. > On a side not, he spent the whole afternoon with me even (and treated > me to lunch) though he had a packed schedule. Not sure how he does it, > but it reiterated my belief that he cared a lot about the project and > cares equally for the people involved in it, no matter how big or > small the contribution is. > > Articles:- I will be writing an article pretty soon. I said it again, > will have to write one now:). Would be nice to see a couple more. > > Tweeting:- Fantastic work with the tweets. Every time I would open > twitter, would see a tweet or two about TomEE. We need to continue > this in the coming months. > > Website:- We probably need a different color for TomEE. Maybe a > different layout all together. Simplicity should be the key. > > Docs:- Of course, the most successful projects have had the best of > docs. That was one of their biggest marketing tool. To me it says "If > you care about the users, you will have good docs" . Gonna jump in > this , but on a smaller scale. > > User questions:- We are doing a great job here with prompt responses. > I am guilty of not being active here. Would like to be more active. > Kudos to the folks who participate and respond to user questions. > > > > -- > > Karan Singh Malhi > twitter.com/KaranSinghMalhi >
