What follows is the local copy of an ancient document (2003) I created and published in
http://www.gulic.org/almacen/03_www/proyecto-publicita.html At this point, I do not know if it can be improved, discarded, become a piece of software, or what.
Probably the best are questions that underlined in blue below.
Advertise your project - Minicom
Author: Lucas Gonzalez Santa Cruz
first revision August 3, 2002. Publishing
gulic.org, June 15, 2003.
Many projects are done without that information reaches people who are interested in them. This document provides guidance that can be useful for drivers of a project. It can also be used by those within a "community" determined, want to support existing initiatives and make them known to those interested in such information.
Introduction: Drivers and communicators
Communities Activities proposed for the boosters
Activities proposed for Communicators
proposals to the Community Activities List of Essential Questions
To Publicize Your Project
Source available online or:
export CVSROOT =: pserver: anonymous @ cvs . gulic.org: / home / cvs / doc
cvs login cvs co howto / projpub
1 Introduction: Drivers and communicators Communities
Many people work on projects for long periods and with great enthusiasm. To these people the drivers will call, and can do things as diverse as programming, writing or translating documentation, organizing install fests, or doing any other activity that benefits users of free software.
However, only part of the "drivers" have time, desire, dedication and confidence in their skills as communicators, "so that in many cases end up not publicize or their intentions or the outcome of their work .
Later, those same "drivers" are complaining that they have help. Those who could help complain that nobody told them anything. The community has a sense (real) that is not aware of what happens in its own ranks. The project itself grows less than it could grow. And, when projects are initiated "duplicate" each project does not benefit the whole mass of "drivers" that exists.
This document provides guidance that can be useful to the "drivers."
addition, this document could be useful to other members of the "community" that could help publicizing the projects of the "drivers". These taxpayers will call "communicators." These "journalists" are those who, often spontaneously assume the role of telling others the news within a given community. In addition to individuals, there may be "automatic communicators" in the form of mailing lists, forums or weblogs, etc.
Both "drivers" and "communicators" serve their "community." In this document, refers to "the Community" as "fractal" in the sense that there are communities within larger communities that are within the larger community. We must decide what level of "community" we publicize our efforts, a party must advertise to those who may attend a program for those who may develop or use, etc.
2 Activities proposed for the boosters
Based on the questions proposed in Section 5, the "driver" (or "Communicator") will build the questionnaire. In Section 5 has made an effort to include the minimum number of questions "stakeholders" often want to see answered. However, the "driver" or "communicator" may add new questions, bring the text of the questions or delete some.
Then the "driver" (aided or not by the "communicator") respond to the questionnaire in a text file. The answers may be as short as a syllable or as long as several pages. (The "communicator", where appropriate, may request clarification or more information.)
Third, the "driver" must decide which "communicator" wants to send its report and send it.
Alternatively, questions can be answered in a chat or a conversation developed with physical presence or by telephone. No matter what, the important thing is that the answer to the questions selected.
At the time, the "driver" may send updates to the same initial format and the necessary adjustments.
3 Activities proposed for Communicators
The "journalists" as people interested in redistributing information on what is done in a given community may have a partial knowledge that "someone is doing something," without much details. It also may not know but want to poll the community to know "who is doing something. "In any case, the first will get a list of such persons and the name or general topic of their projects.
Second, the" journalists "can use the questions in section 5, adapted to the extent as they consider necessary. If you do not want to do that work, may also send the full mini-HOWTO or a link to a website where is this mini-HOWTO.
So the "drivers" can perform the actions described in Section 3: essentially, answer the questions selected to account for your project, and to get answers to the "Communicator".
Upon receiving the text sent by the "drivers" "communicators" can communicate with the first for more information, clarifications, etc.
Finally, advertising may give the answers by any means deemed most appropriate: mailing lists, forums or weblogs, meetings, etc.
4 proposals for the Community Activities
the part of the "community" ("leaders" or any member), it is possible to present this mini-HOWTO to motivate the "drivers" and "community" are requested to contact. This activity involves motivating responsibility not to act as a "communicator."
is also possible that some members of the community focus on finalizing the media (lists, forums, etc) to "drive" and "communicators" talk to each other and the community.
5 List of Essential Questions To Publicize Your Project
- What is, in short, your project?
- What motivated you to get it going? How long have you been preparing?
- What you got done so far? What do you think are important achievements?
- What difficulties have you found? What's left to do?
- Who benefits from your project? Who may be interested in the results?
- Who may participate in the development or preparation of the project? What would you do?
- What else I have not asked and want to tell?
6 Acknowledgements This document could not have done it without the stimulus provided by Kerberos (who did an email interview to which he responded very nicely), Magaly (which we stressed the importance of exposing the projects in which people work each "community") Miguev (who supported me in carrying out the mini-HOW and with whom we have a joint project that will have to advertise), and li-po (read it whole and helped me to adapt the terminology and correct some errors .)
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