[Gambas-user] Gambas 1.0 press release?

[Laurent Carlier]

Le Mardi 4 Janvier 2005 17:00, Rob a écrit :
> So, with Slashdot not picking up the Gambas 1.0 release story
> even though they accepted the announcement of the RC series, I
> am wondering if we (the project) should put out a press release.
> I see two ways we can go: prweb, which is free and is really
> aimed at small organizations like ours, or prnewswire (or an
> equivalent service) which would probably cost us about US$1,000
> but we could have a drive to raise that kind of money (and I'd
> be willing to put up about a quarter of that.)
>

This should be good,

> I think prnewswire's search engine and newspaper coverage is far
> greater than prweb's, but prweb would at least get us into
> google news if anyone was searching for linux basic or anything
> like that.  It may be that the traffic we got from a prnewswire
> type of release would be more than we could handle at this stage
> of our existence, anyway.  Maybe a paid press release would be
> more of a goal for 2.0 than 1.0.
>
> Anyone else have any thoughts?
>
> Rob
>
>

The news from linuxfr (www.linuxfr.org) seems to be good too
In 22 hours -> 1800 hits

Regards,

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Laurent Carlier