PHP Ad campaign

Dear Evan, Yours is a good mission to propagate PHP. I would like to be part of it. Right now, I am setting up a website on Ludhiana (INDIA) naming www.LudhianaInfoline.com Ludhiana is my home town where I live in. Ludhiana is also called Manchester of India. This site contains HTML pages right now, later I will be using PHP/MySql on it by adding more features. I can put banner ads (of PHP) on my site pointing to Combined developed site for PHP or to your page and also in the Newsletter. I will also try to convince my fellow developers to do this type of thing. At this stage, I can make this much of contribution only. But you will agree that if all of the members of this group do things like this, It will definitely become a major campaign. Ajay K. Ratra Ludhiana (INDIA) ajay@LudhianaInfoline.com *********************************************** Evan, I agree with you. I face the same problem too and need a way to convince my cleints. Adrian On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Evan Nemerson wrote: > Bill has hit it right on! Programmers all over the world have already > recognized that PHP is a superior language, and open-source is not the root > of all evil (as M$ would have us believe). However, many (most?) execs do not > listen to reason, but rather only to TV and glossy ads. Therefore, I propose > we fight fire with fire! > > Lets band together and form a web site not altogether unlike LinuxFund.org. > However, instead of development of new technology, our site could focus on > the spread of PHP, or perhaps open source technology. Get our own credit > card, ask for donations, be those donations money or time. > > We could use this money to fund ad-campaigns. Ad-campaigns targeted not at > programmers who already know the merit of PHP (and open-source in general), > but rather the "Big Corporate Executive" who has the power to make or break > PHP. > > The ads could go in magazines like Forbes, Fortune, etc. instead of Open > Magazine. > > If you are interested in this, either helping make the site, providing > expertise in other areas (such as marketing), or would just be willing to > make a donation, visit a page I just set up: > http://www.coeus-group.com/AdCamp.php . I'll consider this > post to be a kind > of market analysis. I sincerly hope that you are as interested- and willing- > as I. > > Evan Nemerson > evan@coeus-group.com > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net