RE: [Rainbowportal-devel] SourceForge utilization

[Steph a. J. B. <jb...@fr...>]

I like this idea.  It's pretty difficult to track the items Ender mentioned
right now...especially for the 'casual' visitor to Rainbow's sites.  I think
this could help.
JB

-----Original Message-----
From: rai...@li...
[mailto:rai...@li...]On Behalf Of Ender
Malkoc
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 4:04 PM
To: rai...@li...
Subject: [Rainbowportal-devel] SourceForge utilization

Guys,

  I know this would be big but I still want to bring it up. I think we
should
utilize SourceForge more than we do right now. If we use SourceForge for
Bugs,
Forums and file downloads we will have much more page views and downloads,
which would increase activity percentile in SourceForge.
  I think we might be able to get into the "Most Active" list which would
higly
effect Rainbow awareness. We are already 236th without any of the following:
  1. Remove downloads from rainbow website and give link to sourceforge
site.
This would be very easy and effective since everyone would need to dl it
from
SourceForge.
  2. Remove documents from rainbow website and give link to sourceforge site
docs section.
  3. Utilize bug tracking of sourceforge: I say let's remove the Bug Report
Forum from ASP.NET Forums and ask everyone who posts a bug to post it to
Sourceforge. It will take some time for people to learn this.
  4. Utilize news section to announce new releases. Release announcements
are
very popular. We should also remove Releases Forum from ASP.NET forums.
  5. Have a more visible link to sourceforge site from the project home
page.
  6. I want to say let's utilize sourceforge forums but it isn't as good as
ASP.NET forums. But still this could be an option.

  If you give me admin rights, I can volunteer to make the changes.

  Ender

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