On Nov 30, 2007 5:58 PM, Ted Kosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > William wrote: > > > This is relevant to > > sage-devel, because perhaps one day > > we'll get some publicity :-) [see, e.g, the top article on slashdot > > right now... http://slashdot.org/] > > I can't help but think that "A SageMath Developer writes" would serve > better as a marketing tool than "A Sage Developer writes". The word > "Sage" by itself is so abstract that it could refer to anything and > most people are not going to give Sage a second thought when they read > it in a short blurb like this. If, say, 10,000 people read that blurb > on Slashdot, maybe only an handful would take the time to find out > what a Sage developer was, and perhaps only a few of them would be > interested in math. > > The name SageMath, however, instantly lets people know that SageMath > is related to math and, if they are interested in math, they are much > more likely to take an interest in SageMath. Out of 10,000 Slashdot > viewers, certainly dozens, and perhaps even hundreds, of math-oriented > people would likely visit the SageMath project to see what it was all > about. > > So Sage did receive some hard-won publicity on Slashdot, but > unfortunately I think it was in the form of a missed marketing > opportunity. > > I know this naming topic has been discussed before and then tabled, > but I think we should reopen the discussion :-)
You're right -- it would have been vastly better if it had said something like "A SageOpenSourceMathSoftware Developer"... In fact, that slashdot article generated very very few hits on sagemath.org. - William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
