[Marketing] reaching out to hackers

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi,

was just talking in IRC with a fellow GNOME hacker and was surprised
when he mentioned that he thought Sugar was dead. Here is the
transcript, might give some clues about how to improve our exposure in
that group:

(12:03:06 PM) ronny: sugar is still alive?
(12:06:35 PM) tomeu: heh
(12:06:44 PM) tomeu: what do you mean by that? is gnome alive?
(12:07:40 PM) tomeu: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8117064.stm
(12:15:41 PM) tomeu: if hackers think we are dead, our marketing team
might need a heads up
(12:16:32 PM) tomeu: ronny: can I ask you which sites you visit to get
an idea of the projects are interesting, dead, alive, etc?
(12:29:37 PM) ronny: tomeu: well, suddenlz all messages of work on it
disappeared from my usual inputs
(12:29:54 PM) ronny: that usually means a) dead or b) marketing needs spanking
(12:30:20 PM) tomeu: yeah, I think our marketing team is focusing a
bit too much on the general consumer
(12:30:39 PM) tomeu: given that we have no budget nor paid developers,
this may not be a good strategy
(12:31:21 PM) tomeu: ronny: there have been articles in ars technica,
lwn and slashdot. any other news sources you can suggest us?
(12:32:33 PM) ronny: these days mostly reddit and heise
(12:32:50 PM) tomeu: heise.de? those use to cover us pretty well
(12:32:51 PM) ronny: also hackernews
(12:33:43 PM) ronny: then i must be doing something wrong, its quite
some time since i did read good things about shugar on heise
(12:34:51 PM) tomeu: those are good suggestions
(12:35:00 PM) tomeu: not sure about heise, we were on both uk and de
(12:35:32 PM) ronny: im on de
(12:35:37 PM) tomeu: our channel gets flooded by german names every
time heise.de talks about us because we ship an IRC activity that logs
automatically into #sugar :p
(12:35:54 PM) tomeu: ok, I'm going to pass your suggestions to the
marketing team
(12:35:56 PM) tomeu: thanks!

HTH,

Tomeu