It will be the most exciting $200 programming competition ever. On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 4:41 PM horrido <horrido.hobb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed, these have been the main goals of my marketing campaign: > > - spread the word through social media (word of mouth) > - try to make Smalltalk look "cool" and fascinating (pop-cultured) > - emphasize that Smalltalk is web-ready, since the whole world seems to be > going ga-ga over the web (popular practices) > - restore the lustre of OOP, since there has been a growing anti-OOP > sentiment for years now > - present success stories, even if most of these are from staid > corporations > and government > > Believe me, I've incorporated elements of these in many, many of my > articles, blog posts, tweets, Facebook posts, etc. > > And I firmly believe the JRM competition will add to the excitement and > cool > factor, if it's done right. > > > > Esteban A. Maringolo wrote > > On 21/06/2018 07:23, horrido wrote: > >> I'm disappointed in the response. Only two contributors of $100 each. > >> This is > >> extremely tepid. > >> > >> There must be thousands of Smalltalkers around the world. How to reach > >> out > >> to them? It can't be that hard to fund this contest. I mean, there are > >> many > >> stupid causes on GoFundMe that have raised tens of thousands of dollars! > >> This Smalltalk programming competition is anything but stupid. > >> > >> If only 1500 Smalltalkers each contributed a paltry $20, the contest > >> would > >> be fully funded. It would only take 300 contributors of $100 each. > > I think that money is the wrong incentive to get people involved. > > > > You can't pay students to get them converted. Massive propagation of > > ideas these days are horizontal rather than vertical. It is, breadth > > first, word of mouth, instead of authoritative articles, this kind of > > competition, etc. Your articles did a good job of rising awareness, but > > there is a lot missing. > > > > If you want to get MORE (quantity) people involved, you need to make > > Pharo more "pop cultured" as many mainstream tools are seen, and that > > itself means becoming more mainstream or follow certain practices, which > > also means having success stories people would like to imitate, etc. > > > > Even if we get people like Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, any other > > "influencer" aware of the benefits of Smalltalk to recommend it, the > > downloads would spike, but I bet one leg the users will bounce as fast > > as they download it. > > > > IMO if we don't understand that as a community, Pharo will still have > > it's niche user base. Not that I dislike it, but I would be more > > comfortable as a niche but with a bigger user base. > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Esteban A. Maringolo > > > > > > -- > Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html > >
