On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 07:52:25PM +0300, Meir Kriheli wrote: [ snip ]
> There's one thing we must realize: > > The stage of early adapters and techies adopting FOSS is reaching the end. > From now on we are facing a uphill PR battle. > > We're nearing a stage off public non techie adoption. As we see at Whatsup > more and more "Normal" people are joining. Assuming linux-il and IGLU are 1st > tier, various forums are 2nd tier, we're now facing the 3rd tier (the > public). > > They're not reading linux-il or visiting IGLU, they don't care so much about > the old boys. They don't visit Hamakor's site or read it's mailing lists. > > What the 1st and 2nd tier should do is fight a PR battle for them and the ones > to come. It includes releasing PR info for them, as they won't follow up or > search it for themselves. > > Take Nadav's comment. I took his announcement Translated it to Hebrew, > and published it at whatsup > (with some mistakes by my side during the translation - Like Dan's last > name). People became aware to it (many of them for the 1st time). Nadav > commented there, correcting my mistakes. > > Wouldn't it save resources if a "Press Release" was issued ? It have saved us > the time to translate it, and Nadav's time coming and "fixing" it. To what address should announcements be sent? Are there any problems with UTF-8 text? Actually, Nadav sent a rather "Technical" (though funny) annoncement about version 0.5 (read: not yet 1.0. Not yet ready for "tier 1 public" consumption. I believe that Nadav and Dan will agree with this stantement). BTW: this was announced on ivrix-discuss and linux-il. Are people of the WhatsUp site subscribed to both lists? > > Or take for example the result of the poll about Hamakor at Whatsup (what's > wrong with it's web site BTW ?). Why bother installing a poll facility? Hamakor has a simpe site, with static pages. Very resiliant to possible slash-dotting and similar problems. > More than 60% (as for now) don't know about > it or won't pay (for various reasons). Considering the Hinam reputation, I wouldn't be surprised people have their reasons not wanting to spend their money :-) -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
