I think that one of the initial points people should address, prior to launching a publicity campaign, is: who is JSPWiki for? It's pretty important to identify the market segment that efforts will then be made towards. We could all just talk about it a lot, but it's more efficient if someone actually has an idea as to what is to be achieved, for whom.
>From a personal perspective as a user, it appears that JSPWiki is only suitable for a highly technical computer user. I use it because it meets certain nerdy requirements. Most casual users don't know what a server is. Dave, you can get an impression of what I'm talking about by comparing the ease of installation of Thunderbird to that of JSPWiki. Therefore, if you think that we should be targeting developers /programmers, I would suggest that perhaps those who want JSPWiki, know or can readily find out about JSPWiki. There might be an inherent danger of diminishing returns by publicising a highly technical product into the mainstream segment. Marketing 101 tells us not to advertise AR15s during the Super Bowl half time slot. >From a more positive slant, some modernisation would be a good thing. Mailing list, what the hell is a mailing list? They went out with the horse and cart. Small steps Ellie, small steps ... On 29 November 2015 at 10:55, Dave Koelmeyer < dave.koelme...@davekoelmeyer.co.nz> wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry to bump an ancient thread (which I bumped previously with no > response). There is still only a JSPWiki Facebook group with the same > whopping four members. Janne enabled admin access for me a long while > back, but what should happen ideally is to create a Facebook Page, and > perhaps an associated Twitter channel, and start spreading the word a bit. > > I'm super-happy to take the lead on this, but I imagine it would need to > be approved by Apache. > > I currently handle social networks publicity for Mozilla Thunderbird, so > I've got a fair bit of experience on this one. > > How can we get this progressed, and does anyone have any other points of > view? > > Cheers, > Dave > > -- > Dave Koelmeyer > http://blog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz > GPG Key ID: 0x238BFF87 > > > > On 13/04/14 15:31, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > > On 4/10/2014 8:54 PM, Siegfried Goeschl wrote: Hi folks, > >> the question at hand is to increase JSPWiki’s publicity - how can we do > >> that? Unfortunately Open Source also consists of lot of advertising > >> otherwise no user will ever use it :-) > > > > Really ramping up activity on social networks would be a good idea, > > Facebook and Twitter specifically. There is a Facebook page with a > > whopping four members, and activity on there is all but dead. Happy to > > make a time commitment here to start posting fresh content. > > > > Cheers, > > Dave > > > >
