On 6 December 2013 12:51, Benedikt Ritter <benerit...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/12/6 Gilles <gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> > >> Hi. >> >> >> On Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:26:57 +0000, Duncan Jones wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> Stack Overflow allows open source projects to create a free advert to >>> encourage participation in their project. >>> >> >> This is certainly worth exploring. > > > If you're willing to do this, go for it!
Here's an effort I knocked up just now: http://imgur.com/eTyqln6 Any thoughts? Not sure how we should sell ourselves... >> >> >> The rules are clearly >>> explained in the following post: >>> >>> http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/210389/open-source- >>> advertising-sidebar-1h-2014. >>> >>> In summary, we create a 220x250 image that encourages participation in >>> Apache Commons. We then post it as an answer to that thread and it >>> will be served up automatically to Stack Overflow users (provided we >>> receive enough up-votes). >>> >>> I'm happy to do this on behalf of Apache Commons, but I wanted feedback >>> on: >>> >>> - Whether we want to do this? >>> - Is there someone more talented who can do the image work? >>> >>> Last time this advertising spree was organised >>> >>> (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/195823/open- >>> source-advertising-sidebar-2h-2013) >>> there were only 8 participants. We should get in on this. >>> >> >> Another way to make the projects more visible is to edit Wikipedia entries >> that refer to implementations in various programming languages of the >> concept >> explained in the article. >> [I mentioned this some time ago, but there were zero comment about >> usefulness or >> feasibility (I don't know how easy it is to become a Wikipedia editor).] >> > > I think I've commented on this (or maybe I wanted to, but forgot it ;-). My > thoughts on this: do it! :-) Anybody can edit wikipedia pages. You don't > even need a user account for it. There are some exceptions to this rule, > but I don't think the pages you have in mind fall into this category. > > >> >> >> Regards, >> Gilles >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
