Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-05-01 Thread Remy CLOUARD
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:17:39AM -0400, T L wrote: > So my idea to boost marketing would be to have everyone write a blog post or > two describing what wm they used before awesome--essentially a "why I > switched" + "contrast and compare" article--and then another "first steps" > with awesome or

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-04-26 Thread Andrei Thorp
Cool, thanks :) On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Remy CLOUARD wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:17:39AM -0400, T L wrote: >> So my idea to boost marketing would be to have everyone write a blog post or >> two describing what wm they used before awesome--essentially a "why I >> switched" + "cont

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-19 Thread Andrei Thorp
Thank you Tim. That's one of the more helpful posts so far :) Anyway, so it's good that JD will do the interview. If anyone else can get us some actual hard contacts to do some publications, that'd be great. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:17 AM, T L wrote: > Hello, > > I'm also new to the community,

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-16 Thread T L
Hello, I'm also new to the community, but I think this looks like really good stuff--I would love to see more awesome users and more press/info about awesome. I've been brainstorming and came up with the following: 1) The Wikipedia page seems key because of its very wide appeal, audience, author

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-15 Thread Michael Stipicevic
The name and website are exactly why I use awesome. It's OK to have a little swagger. Don't change it. - Mike On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Julien Danjou wrote: > Andrei Thorp writes: > > > - With regards to this, it would be, again, if JD could give a bit > > of time to answer some que

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-15 Thread Francisco Rivas
What kind of ideas does JD have for the new future website?, I am not pretty sure if create some publishing or propaganda about awesome atfter have a new website or before that. I am not a very experienced web developer, actually I am not a web developer but a developer but I would like to give a

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-14 Thread Andrei Thorp
Okay, guys. I _understand_ that some people like the name and some people don't. That's fine. And yes, it's a valid concern that it's hard to google for and a bit arrogant. But for the moment, this is like complaining about the position of the radio volume knob of a car while trying to deal with

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-14 Thread Julien Danjou
Andrei Thorp writes: > - With regards to this, it would be, again, if JD could give a bit > of time to answer some questions (or someone else if JD is just too > busy) I'm more than ok to answers questions by mail. > - Julien, a long while back, put out a call for an overhaul of the > webs

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-14 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
If there's one thing about this whole stuff that I have an opinion about, it's this: I think the description on the website and such are a bit over the top and sound IMHO a bit arrogant. I mean the stuff like "extremely fast", "Very stable, fast and small codebase and footprint" etc. I personally

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-13 Thread Mister Itanium
I agree the name is TOO generic, specially for the Newbies it's REALLY tough to find documentation or anything about it. Well, I'm sure they won't change the name because of me, but I'm sure if they conduct some kind of poll, they'll notice a LOT of people think the same way. Thanks. On Sat, Mar 1

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-13 Thread Ben Hodgens
On 03/13/2010 06:58 PM, Adam Nielsen wrote: Perhaps if "Awesome" was only used as an abbreviation and the full name was written as "AwesomeWM" wherever possible, it might make it easier for people to find information about it? The problem with this, of course, is that awm - the natural abbrevia

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-13 Thread Travis McKinney
I like the name. At least it's not D (to stand for the programming language). On 13 March 2010 18:08, Bart Nagel wrote: > At 2010-03-14 11:58:17 +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > > I've only just started using Awesome so my opinion won't carry much > weight, > > but the most difficult thing I've foun

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-13 Thread Bart Nagel
At 2010-03-14 11:58:17 +1000, Adam Nielsen wrote: > I've only just started using Awesome so my opinion won't carry much weight, > but the most difficult thing I've found to deal with is the name. "Awesome" > is so generic it's next to impossible to find anything specific through search > engines,

Re: [Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-13 Thread Adam Nielsen
> But most notably, it has been very difficult > to find a reputable source online that has reviewed Awesome in any > way. Most press has been just blogs and nothing special. In fact, > Awesome has terribly marketing in general. I've only just started using Awesome so my opinion won't carry much w

[Marketing] Awesome, Wikipedia Deletion, Arch Linux Magazine

2010-03-13 Thread Andrei Thorp
Hello, So as many of you know, Awesome's Wikipedia page was deleted[1] for really dubious reasons. But most notably, it has been very difficult to find a reputable source online that has reviewed Awesome in any way. Most press has been just blogs and nothing special. In fact, Awesome has terribly