Re: [Postgres-xc-general] Some advocacy suggestions

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd...@co...>wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I have been lurking here for a little while and have been following the
> project itself since March of 2011. With the imminent release of 1.0 I
> would like to offer some advocacy suggestions for wider coverage.
>
> 1. Major announcements should never go out on a weekend. Most people
> will never see them. Instead, focus major announcements to happen during
> the week on Tue/Wed/Thu. Monday is useless too many people are busy
> doing the catchup from the week before. Friday is useless because people
> are focused on getting out of work.
>
Yes, releasing beta2 on Sunday was not the best move ever.
Wanted to do that before but I got my hands full, and I am kind of the guy
doing it.

2. If possible, have a sponsoring company or individual run a PRWeb for
> the 1.0 announcement.

Thanks for the advice. I am sure it will be done.


> 3. Michael's blog is great but there should be a project wide blog so
> the project does not appear to be a one person project.
>
This would be great. I don't have time to take care of that myself these
days.
But I could write posts on it.


> 4. Send English announcements on EST time. This will garner you the most
> eyeballs between the States and Europe.
>
Based in Japan... This doesn't help...


> 5. I don't know if this is already done, but the Asian community
> probably has their own channels for communication.
>
Not that much. Only the ML are in use in English language.

6. With 1.0, you will want to get some quotes from some industry players
> that are not a major supporter. Instead focus on people from the other
> consulting companies and even better, a real user if possible.
>
This is a great idea.

Based on your ideas, I would say that a blog would not be enough to serve
the purpose of the project, something more global is needed with, and the
blog articles, let's say about development, would only be a section of it.
It could also contain links to redirect to the tarballs downloadable on
SourceForge, and package mirrors. Quotes could also be a part of it.


> Anyway, I hope that is helpful and I look forward to helping with this
> project.
>
Thanks! Any piece of advice is always appreciated.
-- 
Michael Paquier
http://michael.otacoo.com