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Re: Marketing (Was: Re: New developers and publicity)


From: Nicolas Roard
Subject: Re: Marketing (Was: Re: New developers and publicity)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:53:45 +0100


Le 28 sept. 04, à 21:10, Alex Perez a écrit :

What I have in mind is not the "hard-core" approach which you can do
with a "product", but more the awareness part by creating a Build Guide, a History document, a desktop manual so people can have a look what apps
written with GNUstep look like.
And the next step was the programmers guide(s)... but I am not a
programmer, so I failed. Thank god there is Adrian Robert to atleast
fill in the blanks on the API documentation.
From my server logs I know that the programming guides are needed. They
quickly surpassed the Build Guide as most read document on my site.

This sort of stuff should be coagulated on GNUstep.org or at some sort of
subdomain.gnustep.org which follows the GNUstep.org look and feel, so
there is some sense of documentation cohsiveness. The other problem is
that, currently, CVS is a limiting factor in how we can update the site, because we can't easily say "user foo has commit access to the GNUstep web
CVS folder bar" which I feel is imperative if we want to have multiple
people responsible for multiple parts of the GNUstep site and
documentation.

agree.. could it thus be preferrable to use the gna project for that ? and just point/redirect marketing.gnustep.org to the gna pages (or, automatically copy what's on the gna pages
to marketing.gnustep.org .. ?)

What I would like to do is still to try to position GNUstep as a
developers tool, thus not the DE part. Meaning the framework, and GORM, PC, EasyDiff... and probably need a nice GDB frontend too and a Code editor.

That means that for people to get an interest in GNUstep there need to
be some documentation on:
- Begin programming Objective-C
- Start programming GNUstep
- UI design guide
- GORM manual
- PC manual
- other developer app manuals
And with manuals I mean NOT man-pages but books that can be read online,
PDF etc.

We could also consider trying to get a limited run of someof these things
printed, and sell them to raise a few bucks for future documentation or
marketing projects.

Hm, yes, that's an interesting idea. Not sure if that's realist (and it surely isn't currently) though. Anyway that's a question that will only come when we'll have "finished" docs .. ;-)

This leads me to my second point, which is that we really need a GNUstep
Foundation. Actually, we need two. One in the United States, and one in
Europe. While I can't speak for Europe, a nonprofit in the united states
can legally accept tax-deductible donations from both corporations and
individuals. This is imperative if GNustep is to become more recognized
and respected. I know of at least a couple of American GNUsteppers who
might be interested in getting such a beast off the ground. Anyone up for
such a task in Europe? Dennis?

Uh, actually I think you're right on the spot, a GNUstep Foundation would be really helpful.

--
Nicolas Roard
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
 -Arthur C. Clarke





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