[myhdl-list] Re: MyHDL 0.5 released

[Jan D. <ja...@ja...>]

George Pantazopoulos wrote:
>> Hi all:
>>
>> I have released MyHDL 0.5 on SourceForge.
>>
> Congratulations Jan! How else do you plan on promoting MyHDL?

1) announcements in selected news forums

I have prepared an extensive announcement that I post to the
following forums:

geda-announce (done)
comp.lang.verilog (done)
comp.lang.fpga
comp.lang.python.announce

I do the announcements in stages to get an idea of the impact
(in terms of downloads). For completeness, I have just posted
the announcement to this forum also. Sometimes I add a sentence
that targets the public of a particular forum.

2) Set up Google AdWords campaign (done)

I have no idea whether this is meaningful, but in any case,
the idea seems fun. I am intrigued on how AdWords
works, and as there's no substitute for experience, I decided
to set up a campaign on this occasion.

3) How-to article on http://www.pldesignline.com/

Thanks to Tom Dillon, I have been invited to publish a
How-to article about MyHDL on this on-line publication.
I have deliberately postponed it until MyHDL 0.5 was out, but
it's the first thing I would like to do now. Nothing has
been done yet, and I'll discuss it in more detail later
in this forum.

Jan

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