[RkWard-devel] marketing

[Jacolin Yves]

Hello,
I am interesting as well to work on this problem. Me and Pierre (Pecoh) talked 
about that a few monthes ago, before I joined the project. We planed to write 
some news in linuxfr.org and other website after a big release of RKWard and 
some new documentation.
Perhaps we can a working group about this on the wiki ?
Furthemore, I find a live-CD called quantian that propose RKWard (I forget 
which version is installed).

So as soon as I will get more time, I will happy to help you!

Yves
Le Mercredi 1 Février 2006 17:24, Thomas Friedrichsmeier a écrit :
> Hi Stefan,
>
> > I just figured out what Rkward is "missing". To put it into a single
> > word: "Marketing". When I searched for a GUI to R by google I found
> > everything (like Kstat http://www.kstat.org/ , which is no longer / not
> > yet developed) but not Rkward (which is more than usable). I refined my
> > search for Linux, KDE, ... and still found almost nothing. But I knew
> > form r-project.org that there is Rkward. So my suggestion is to announce
> > the project on common known places in the web. Moreover one might
> > “improve” the hits in google (there are known strategies how to do this).
> > What is the sense of my idea? Manly to attract developers, user and
> > people who do quality testing. Therefore is my suggestion that I (if you
> > consent) try to make Rkward more public. What do you think?
>
> you are quite right, RKWard could do with better marketing. In fact this is
> already on the list of "open tasks" waiting for someone to start working on
> (bottom of the page):
> http://rkward.sourceforge.net/devel.php?content=open_tasks
>
> Personally, I'm just not any good at marketing. I'm aware of the problem,
> but I'd very much like to delegate it to somebody more competent.
>
> Announcements on known places in the web: Go for it, you don't have to ask
> permission. Short descriptions of rkward are available on the website, or
> on freshmeat and kde-apps.org. If you think those descriptions should be
> changed/improved, your suggestions are welcome. Some screenshots can be
> found at the same locations, but most likely better ones could be created
> with relatively little effort.
>
> Improving search-engine visibility: Certainly room for improvement, here.
> You might want to team up with Yves Jacolin (yjacolin AT gloobe DOT org) to
> optimize keywords and such on the website.
>
> Your efforts are highly welcome!
>
> Thomas

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