On Nov 15, 9:18 pm, "Ted Kosan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Who are the main people who are responsible for SAGE marketing? I
> will have some free time in December and I would like to devote some
> of it to helping with SAGE's marketing effort.
>
> Ted
Hi Ted,
I don't think there is a formal structure in place to do any
marketing, but everybody who is giving talks certainly drives
awareness. cwitty just told me in IRC that the 2.8.12 release
announcement made it into this weeks "Linux Weekly News" development
section - see http://lwn.net/Articles/257830/ (subscription required).
I consider lwn very influential, so that is a good thing. If anybody
actively submitted or tried to drive them to add SAGE to their
development page I would like to hear about it.
But back to your question: We should have somebody or a group of
people who are working on Marketing, at least the non-hyperbole driven
kind. One thing I can think are consistent a correctly spelled release
announcements, so if you could come up with some suggestions and/or a
couple standard sentences I would be very happy. In light of the lwn
announcement I would like to add some "boilerplate" to the bottom:
"Sage is developed by volunteers and combines xx open source packages.
It is available for download from sagemath.org and its mirros in
source or binary form. If you have any questions and/or problems
please report them to the google groups sage-devel, sage-support, sage-
forum or sage-newbie...."
This should be the standard on the bottom of each release
announcement, so that somebody who runs across Sage via something like
lwn would have all the basic information in one place instead of
having to crawl over sagemath.org to find them all.
Fixing up sagemath.org, especially pages that are not the main
index.html, and updating information on the wiki is also something I
would consider to be part of marketing. We can certainly use people
who are willing to spend some time on that.
Cheers,
Michael
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