I just wanted to stop lurking and get round to pinging this list
[thanks to Jeff for the prodding :)]
Just a little bit of background, I'm the PR chair for The Perl
Foundation (TPF), and I'm trying to help both TPF and other Perl
communities do better at spreading news about the good things that we
do. One of my current goals is to try to find an outside PR firm to
help with the distribution of press releases etc. If anybody has any
recommendations, please get in touch.
My day job involves a lot of mod_perl stuff, so I reminded my boss that
mod_perl makes us a lot of money so the least we could do is write
something up for the "Technologie Extraordinaire" section. I also got a
some feedback from him on this section, from the perspective of a
marketing guy.
* Firstly, we had a little trouble finding the section. I was looking
for "Success Stories" or something in the left bar.
* Looking at the "Success Stories" page his first comment was "they're
just emails!".
* They seem pretty outdated.
* It doesn't seem too professional, one for instance was from a "Smelly
Belly".
Possibly a good thing to do is remove most of these and try to focus
the effort pushing big sites that use mod_perl with more marketing
friendly copy. I'll pick the brains of some more colleagues next week
to get some more feedback from non-Perl people.
Would it be possible to have these pages on some kind of staging wiki
to make it easy for people to contribute?
I also thought that I saw a page somewhere that listed companies that
contributed money/developers to mod_perl development, but I can't seem
to find it now. He was interested in how he would be able to sponsor
efforts to increase awareness in the community, should there be a list
of people/projects looking for funding somewhere? Also on this note, it
would be nice to see some mod_perl projects submitted for the next
round of TPF grants
(http://www.perlfoundation.org/gc/grants/proposals.html).
Cheers!
Gavin.
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[thanks to Jeff for the prodding :)]
Just a little bit of background, I'm the PR chair for The Perl
Foundation (TPF), and I'm trying to help both TPF and other Perl
communities do better at spreading news about the good things that we
do. One of my current goals is to try to find an outside PR firm to
help with the distribution of press releases etc. If anybody has any
recommendations, please get in touch.
My day job involves a lot of mod_perl stuff, so I reminded my boss that
mod_perl makes us a lot of money so the least we could do is write
something up for the "Technologie Extraordinaire" section. I also got a
some feedback from him on this section, from the perspective of a
marketing guy.
* Firstly, we had a little trouble finding the section. I was looking
for "Success Stories" or something in the left bar.
* Looking at the "Success Stories" page his first comment was "they're
just emails!".
* They seem pretty outdated.
* It doesn't seem too professional, one for instance was from a "Smelly
Belly".
Possibly a good thing to do is remove most of these and try to focus
the effort pushing big sites that use mod_perl with more marketing
friendly copy. I'll pick the brains of some more colleagues next week
to get some more feedback from non-Perl people.
Would it be possible to have these pages on some kind of staging wiki
to make it easy for people to contribute?
I also thought that I saw a page somewhere that listed companies that
contributed money/developers to mod_perl development, but I can't seem
to find it now. He was interested in how he would be able to sponsor
efforts to increase awareness in the community, should there be a list
of people/projects looking for funding somewhere? Also on this note, it
would be nice to see some mod_perl projects submitted for the next
round of TPF grants
(http://www.perlfoundation.org/gc/grants/proposals.html).
Cheers!
Gavin.
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