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Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 13:15:56 +0200
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Subject: Re: [ALL] Improving Commons public relations
From: Benedikt Ritter <britter@apache.org>
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2013/7/5 Anshul Zunke <anshulzunke@gmail.com>

> Hi Benedikt,
>
> I will add 1 more imp point.
>
> We should public relations more with the student circles. No doubt Apache
> is very very popular in java programming group. But ppl especially students
> dont know how to contribute in it.
>

But how do we do this? I Think none of us has the spare time to visit
universities and animate students.


>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:25 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > All good ideas.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Jul 4, 2013, at 16:20, Benedikt Ritter <britter@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > we had this discussion lately where we talked about attracting new
> > > contributors for commons [1]. Over the past few days I've been thinking
> > > about this topic again and I've come to the conclusion that there are
> > > several things we could do to improve our "public relations".
> > >
> > > Here is a list of things that I would like to change (and by this I
> mean,
> > > that I volunteer to do the work ;-)
> > >
> > > 1. Make commons more visible in coding social media
> > > - request git mirrors for every proper component, so that everything is
> > > also at github
> > > - add all proper components to Ohloh (and clean up the existing ones)
> > > - create a Twitter account where we can post news from commons. The
> Mesos
> > > project already has such an account. [2]
> > >
> > > 2. Make the website more attractive
> > > - Use a modern design - I don't know who said it, but I loved it when
> > > someone said "our website looks like we're java 1.3 users". Well, this
> is
> > > true. Simone made several attempts to make commons switch to the maven
> > > fluido skin [3,4,5]. I think the time has come to finally do something
> > > about the website.
> > > - include a news section on the main page - Having all the components
> > > listed on the home page is a good thing for navigation, but what I'm
> > really
> > > interested in, are news about the development. A new git mirror has
> been
> > > created? Cool, thanks for telling me. Collections 4 alpha1 has been
> > > released? Good to know, I'll download it right away. No need for a big
> > fat
> > > list that contains all components when most people probably only use a
> > few.
> > >
> > > WDYT?
> > > Benedikt
> > >
> > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/o7ef6o4ahe23k5iu
> > > [2] https://twitter.com/ApacheMesos
> > > [3] http://markmail.org/message/tkh4yqfcqg5i444g
> > > [4] http://markmail.org/message/jnlyhbh5yq3zp54t
> > > [5] http://markmail.org/message/jk4addjqw67476bk
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://people.apache.org/~britter/
> > > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/
> > > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter
> > > http://github.com/britter
> >
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> Anshul Zunke
>


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