[Freeipa-devel] Getting publicity for Free IPA

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote:

> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>>> write a story for Red Hat Magazine or Dev Fu. Is there anyone from the 
>>> FreeIPA team who would be a good contact for this kind of story?
>>> 
>> 
>> +1
>> 
>> Red Hat Magazine landed Cobbler about 1000 hits a month for several months, 
>> and still provides traffic. It's really worth it.
>> 
>> If you guys are on Fedora planet, blogging there seems to help too. If 
>> you're not and want to get your blogs added, ask someone in #fedora-admin
>> and they can add you.
>> 
>> I also don't see FreeIPA on Freshmeat -- while Freshmeat itself isn't a 
>> /huge/ traffic source directly (I don't even read it), it is heavily 
>> aggregated by sites all over the place and isn't too hard to set up. It 
>> helps with Pagerank too.
>
> If it hasn't been done already the Fedora marketing team could interview one 
> of the devels and post the interview on digg.... we had some pretty good 
> responses to these leading up to F8.

Agreed.  My real goal here is to find "The Spokesmodel" of the FreeIPA 
team, to whom we can funnel these kinds of opportunities.  Maybe that's 
Karl Wirth.  :)

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