Marketingq

Hi, Davey brought up a good point today on IRC: PEAR should do at least some basic things in the direction of marketing. I think for now the best course of action is to make sure we are well represented in all PHP mags and at all PHP Events (or Events where PHP is represented). So basically I ask everyone that hears of a PHP Event to drop me a note so that I can make sure that PEAR is well represented. Actually thinking about it we may want to put up a Wiki to coordinate things (Paul you up for this since you are our Wiki expert? ;-) ). There we could also list all PHP mags and people can list the PEAR articles for each mag there (title, with link if available) so we can see where we are featured and where we are not yet featured. At the same time we should have good answers ready to some of the criticism often voiced on the net which is often not well thought out or a result of the fact that the given person has needs which are too specific to be able to address them. These things should go into our manual and should help people in making sound arguments when they see crap thrown around against PEAR in forums, on IRC or a mailinglists. Maybe someone has a good article which we can use as a starting point. And maybe some of you even have the drive to push a document like this. Regards, Lukas Smith smith@backendmedia.com _______________________________ BackendMedia www.backendmedia.com berlin@backendmedia.com Linn Zwoch Smith GbR Pariser Str. 44 D-10707 Berlin Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07