I'm looking for websites that will post links to ZooLib's website. For
example, Cprogramming.com just accepted a link, which they have at:
http://www.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/cdir/Cdirectory.cgi?action=Category&CID=8&Page=2
Having websites link to ZooLib doesn't just draw websurfers to our site, it
also will help ZooLib rank higher in the search engines. Some search engines
(such as google) will rank a site higher if it has lots of links because they
figure the page is more interesting to people.
I've submitted proposals to a couple technical publishers about having them
publish dead-tree editions of The ZooLib Cookbook. But both of them told me
they would need to sell 10,000 copies to recoup their investment. One of them
estimated that 1/10th of the people that download an Open Source package will
buy its book, so I expect that before a publisher will accept my proposal,
ZooLib needs to have 100,000 downloads. That means I need to do a lot more to
promote it.
If we had that many downloads, it would probably also attract a lot of
developers to help out with developing ZooLib itself.
Linux people usually look for software on http://freshmeat.net/ BeOS people
will look at http://www.bebits.com/ But where will Windows and Mac people look?
So suggest to me any websites that you think might be willing to give us a
link, and I'll submit ZooLib. Alternatively you can submit the link yourselves.
It would also be a big help if you could link to ZooLib from your personal home
pages and weblogs.
It looks like Andy got http://www.zoolib.org/ set up to redirect to the
sourceforge site so that's probably the best URL to use.
Also, I've been talking with Andy for a while about issuing a proper release to
ZooLib soon. A lot of work has been done since the 0.8.1 release, but most
users don't want to get the code from CVS. The main thing I need to do is to
make sure all the demo code builds cleanly in all the supported compilers on
all the supported platforms.
Once a new release is issued, I plan to write an article about ZooLib and
submit it to http://www.kuro5hin.org/ I've posted a couple articles there
before which were well received. I think if I can get the article accepted, it
should draw a lot of interest. We will also be posted briefly on the front
pages of bebits and freshmeat.
Regards,
Mike
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Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
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