Hi, On 1 Dec 2013, at 19:24, Joseph Gentle wrote: > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ali Lown <a...@lown.me.uk> wrote: >> My only worry with a KS is how do we market it? As beyond putting it >> on Hacker News, explaining an P2P OT-backend communication system is >> likely to confuse (if not discourage) potential backers. >> (It also sounds more like the abstract for some academic research, >> than a commercial project [the issue with being on the edge of >> research for this technology]). > > Aside from hackernews, we should talk to techcrunch and all the other > little tech news places. We should do a meetup on the topic here in SF > to gather support, and we should try to sell the story to our local > newspapers in our hometowns. I have friends who are good at this stuff > that I can call on. > > I agree though - the hardest part is (as you say) figuring out how we > distill down the idea to make it easy to explain.
I can help a little with marketing. I have a well visited blog meanwhile and the right story might draw some good attention to a kickstarter campaign. As I have some interest in making Wave happen and so I would even support the Kickstarter myself with $. That all being said, with all the new ideas and hope I would say we should postpone the "go to github discussion" a little more. I think ppl will support some ASF Wave more than a "random github Wave". And be it only because of the safety for a clean IP. Please let me know if I can do more to support this effort (speaking with my entrepreneur hat on, not my ASF hat) Cheers Christian > > -J --- http://www.grobmeier.de @grobmeier GPG: 0xA5CC90DB
