Hi,
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Our artists is on the job to make the new site design better. He is
using openacs.museatech.net as his basis. We will also try to offer
a couple of logo or something.
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I do agree with Ben to leave the business marketing to the
companies.
I think we should market OpenACS not to business people on
openacs.org but to new developers. Let the companies handle the
business aspect as each company has it own niche and uses for
OpenACS. But of course openacs.org should link to this materials.
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I don't think we should make a lot of marketing materials I think
the priority to get openacs be attractive to new individual
developers and developing companies.
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How many of us got into OpenACS because of the site? I am sure I
was not. If it wasn't for the prior exposure of infiniteinfo on
aolserver ver 2. It is unlikely infiniteinfo will be using OpenACS
now or even knowing about it.
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We need marketing to get new developers and we need to follow
through with the code.
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For starters the new site should make
https://openacs.org/community/sites/
more visible instead of a link at the front page. Dedicate a whole
section to what OpenACS can do. Also maybe we can classify the
sites. Our company will be happy to give a longer description to
our sites I am sure others will to. Maybe we can make similar to
this
http://www.infiniteinfo.com/site/work/index of course minus the
marketing. I propose a section on the new site that lists all
OpenACS and ACS Tcl sites that is classified according to nich.
Clicking on a site will bring a 1 pager about the site. Main
purpose <b>"NEW DEVELOPER IF YOU USE OPENACS HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN
DO".</b>
