[Gambas-user] Gambas 1.0 press release?

Daniel Tarsky dtarsky at ...626...
Wed Jan 5 19:00:36 CET 2005


I had karma to burn at slashdot and myself have sufered from people
getting bored with my project too early to appreciate new features.
So.. I managed to get a submission accepted on the main page for
gambas. :)

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:00:36 -0500, Rob <sourceforge-raindog2 at ...94...> wrote:
> 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.)
> 
> 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
> 
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