Re: [Vufind-admins] [VuFind-General] NERCOMP New Discovery Tools Symposium

[Eoghan Ó C. <eog...@gm...>]

Hi,
Maybe expanding the wiki sections on presentations & marketing would be a
good place to start? Having everything in one place might encourage some
level of uniformity.

I've come across dozens of presentations (slides & recordings) as well as
articles/blogs, end-user testing reports etc on VuFind, but there is no
central location where these are available. The current "Events" section is
good (it is one of the things that attracted me most to VuFind!), but has a
few broken links and doesn't reflect the whole community. Entirely
re-locating "Installation Status" from the About section to the wiki worked
well (as did relocating Roadmap to JIRA), so maybe this is way to go for
events, resources, marketing material too?

I suppose there is a question of whether we want to draw a line between
"official" and "community" materials. Personally, I feel it is more
important to encourage the community side of things, since a visibly active
project is more likely to attract new adopters & developers. If this becomes
unwieldy and confusing in the future, then a more formal distinction could
be made again.


Eoghan




2009/12/15 Till Kinstler <kin...@gm...>

> I'm taking this to the admins-List because I think my remarks don't
> target the broad audience on the general list...
>
> Demian Katz wrote:
>
> > I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm definitely going to be
> > attending and giving a brief presentation on VuFind.
>
> That's good. Spread the word...
>
> > It might be a good opportunity to meet some of the people
> > from the mailing lists….
>
> Hmmm, I guess, if I file an application for a day trip to the US, it
> will be denied :-)
> But talking about VuFind presentations: My proposal for a presentation
> on VuFind at the Bibliothekskongress next March here at Leipzig, Germany
> was accepted. I am going to talk about it on a session titled "Stirbt
> der OPAC?" ("is the OPAC going to die?"), where some other library
> discovery interfaces will be presented as well (some commercial products
> and some DIY projects of German libraries).
> Do we need some common presentation strategy for VuFind? A marketing
> department, wording rules ("NEVER USE THE TERM OPAC!!!", seems some
> companies have that :-) and cheapo give-aways? :-)
>
> No, seriously: Does it make sense to have some common content (eg. a
> feature list) in presentations? I really like the VuFind Brochure at
>
> http://vufind.org/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?cache=cache&media=http%3A%2F%2Fvufind.org%2Fdocs%2FVufindBrochure.pdf
> OK, it depends very much on the target audience (at the
> Bibliothekskongress that's clearly a non-techie audience, but I want to
> tell them about the Open Source aspect of VuFind)...
>
> Till
>
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