Hi guys,

Speaking of PR, we have a 2.0.2 to announce within a very short time and we better do it well. We won't be able to do a Slashdot or OSnews announcement, nevertheless we should take these opportunities to promote FPC.

So, any ideas what sites we should spam? I'm looking for developer focused sites. Pascal/Delphi related sites are welcome, but remember we are already quite famous in that world. We need generic open source related sites.

Daniël

Don't forget to tell PGD.

Why is OSNews and /. out ?

Ales

We need to send more messages to the general Delphi community. I didn't know FPC well before I tried kylix, and heard about it as an alternative to that.

http://lwn.net/ ?
http://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn

Please tell us when the announcement is available in the svn or the wiki, to be able to translate it in other languages and post on specific local forums or websites.
I'm considering sending a news announcement on some Slovenian or Italian website related to open source and IT news.
Ciao, Dean

Hi!

I recommend the German http://www.pro-linux.de/ Linux/FOSS news site. If you need help (translation, posting the announcement) I can help. Please write the text in "news" style because they don't like advertisements.

Bye
Hansi

If the Mac OS X support is "directly available out of the box" (rather than: depending on the kindness of some soul in the community after the release is made public), then I suggest that it is also announced at

<http://www.macintouch.com/>

They also carry the announcements of every REALbasic release. I volunteer to send the message, if you prompt me in time.

And, I might get something to be published in <http://www.tidbits.com/>.

Tom

Johann Glaser wrote

I recommend the German http://www.pro-linux.de/ Linux/FOSS news site. If you need help (translation, posting the announcement) I can help. Please write the text in "news" style because they don't like advertisements.

I can translate and add some more info and send it to portuguese open source websites, like:

http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/

We need generic open source related sites.

http://www.icewalkers.com/

- Jeff

Daniël Mantione wrote

So, any ideas what sites we should spam? I'm looking for developer focused sites. Pascal/Delphi related sites are welcome, but remember we are

You can also try: look under the "PR material" heading for contact details.

http://www.tectonic.co.za/default.php?action=contact

http://www.tectonic.co.za/index.php
Tectonic -- Linux and open source news

G.

Dear Tom,

I agree in general. However, I suggest to wait with the announcements in the Mac channels until fpc 2.0.2 is available through fink. I am just getting it together and It should be done in short time, one maybe two weeks from now. The .dmg package should be mentioned as well.

Op Fri, 9 Dec 2005, schreef Dr. Karl-Michael Schindler:

It is IMHO not so good to sent an announcement one or two weeks after a package has been released, it is old news then, sites may not cover it anymore. People can download MacOS releases directly from us, which should be enough for announcement, right? You can put in the announcement that it will be available from fink shortly.

By the way, no critics to you as you didn't know, but the source code has already been frozen for weeks, it may be possible to start the fink release process earlier.

Daniël

I just saw some banners saying that IBM is giving banner space for free for open source project.

I think that both Lazarus and Free Pascal should try to get banners!! Perhaps even more Lazarus.

here is the url:

http://www.openpowerproject.org/us/lp.php?cid=b2_linsider_ros_336x280_g

There is LinuxQuestions. It has an enormous traffic, but you can´t just put an "2.0.2 released" there. They would accept it if it is an article talking about Free Pascal, it´s history and a few details about the new release.

Op Sat, 10 Dec 2005, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:

There is LinuxQuestions. It has an enormous traffic, but you can´t just put an "2.0.2 released" there. They would accept it if it is an article talking about Free Pascal, it´s history and a few details about the new release.

I don't want to write an article myself this time; it is a minor release after all. I did write a Press Kit, which news sites can use for background information: http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Press_Kit

Daniël

Meanwhile I spammed:

- Linux Weekly News www.lwn.net
- Pascal Game Development www.pascalgamedevelopment.com
- Gnomedesktop www.gnomedesktop.org
- NlDelphi www.nldelphi.com
- Macintouch www.macintouch.com
- Tectonic www.tectonic.co.za

Meanwhile Tweakers.net is to my knownledge the first site to report on the new release, without asking: http://www.tweakers.net/meuktracker/11295

If somebody who pseak the right language can spam pro-linux.de and vivaolinux.com.br that would be nice.

Daniël