On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Alan Cabrera <l...@toolazydogs.com> wrote:
> I wonder if we can ask that incubation proposals include how they intend > to get the message out there. What channels are relevant for the project? > I guess what are their marketing plans. > > Eventually, we'd have a collection of old incubation proposals that new > podlings could use to garner ideas on how to market and grow their > community. > > > Regards, > Alan > > Podlings that are not even yet in Incubation might not know "the Apache Way" and how to grow communities the way we want (e.g. they might come and say we are going to use PRs for every release or something, or have weekly phone calls, which are things that might conflict with "The Apache Way"). What might work better is to have mentors advertising new ideas that has been working on the podlings that they oversee, and we collect these advices for future reference. BTW, I have seen Ross starting to do that, and some ideas are really interesting. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
