Re: Spreading the word (was: Re: Google Summer of Code 2007)

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

Am 15.03.2007 um 22:07 schrieb Yen-Ju Chen:

> On 3/15/07, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky- 
> helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
> > Am 15.03.2007 um 20:42 schrieb Adam Fedor:
> >
> > > Good News!  GNUstep was accepted as an organization in Google's
> > > Summer of Code 2007. Now the work begins. Please go to the SOC wiki
> > > page:
> > >
> > > http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Summer_Of_Code_2007
> > >
> > > I need people to:
> > >
> > > 1) Go through the project list carefully and make sure the projects
> > > are relevant and useful and everything we need is there
> > > 2) Sign up to be mentors!
> > > 3) Sign up to be students.
> >
> > Somebody blogging (ideally somebody who blogs on a regular base and
> > has a blog that supports digg) should blog about this and then we
> > could try to get into the limelight here http://digg.com/programming.
> > We would need about 40 to 50 diggs to get to the frontpage then
> > (should be no problem if everybody here helps "digging").
> >
> > Btw. KDE already does this: http://digg.com/programming/
> > KDE_participating_in_Google_Summer_of_Code_2007
>
>  We can just digg the wiki page.
>  If you really want a blog, I have one here:
>  http://gnustep.blogspot.com/

Great! I think a blog is better here (and you link the wikipage in  
it) since those little digg buttons seem to make the difference (I  
remember submitting a story on digg ( http://digg.com/programming/ 
GNUstep_does_what_Apple_can_t_Extend_Cocoa_to_Linux_Windows ) which  
never came across to reach the critical mass because of a missing  
digg button on Greg's blog.).

I think your blog entry needs to be extended somewhat to make it a  
more interesting and relevant read, I can do it, just give me some  
time to write something (which I'll mail to you in turn). And then  
digg, digg, digg!

>  It is not fancy and I have no idea how many people view it.
>  By the way, if people want to join as authors or GNUstep want to  
> use it,
>  just let me know.
>
>  Yen-Ju


regards, Lars