Merged some info from the 2.4 branch.

[wxWidgets.git] / docs / publicity / publicity.txt

Publicity notes and ideas
=========================

Release announcments can be made to the following
newsgroups.

Microsoft:

comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
comp.windows.ms.programmer
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tools
microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui

Non-Microsoft:

comp.programming
comp.os.linux.development.apps
comp.os.linux.announce
comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools
comp.software-eng
comp.lang.c++

borland.public.cppbuilder.thirdpartytools (newsgroups.borland.com)

comp.windows.x
comp.windows.x.announce
comp.windows.x.motif

Note: submissions to comp.windows.linux.announce must be
sent to cola@stump.algebra.com, with short descr
of software and location. See http://stump.algebra.com/~cola/
NO CROSSPOSTING when sending to this address.

Pack plenty information into the subject. 
Don't write a subject like "Foo version 1.1 released". Many
people will not know what Foo is, so the subject won't help them
select articles. Instead, say "Foo 1.1 - copy files more
efficiently than cp". There is no need to say that the article
is an announcement, so don't write a subject like "ANNOUNCEMENT:
Foo version 1.1 released". 

News and links sites:
-----------------------

slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, http://lwn.net/

Many of these links will be out of date now:

www.Linuxberg.com
www.visual-developer.com (Visual Developer Magazine, editor:
  Jeff Duntemann <jeffd@coriolis.com>)
http://www.hal9k.com/cug/index.htm (C/C++ user group)
www.program.com
www.graphtech.com/vcgroup.html (VC++ user group)
www.motifzone.com
fsw.com
landru.unx.com/DD/advisor/index.shtml (X advisor journal)
landru.unx.com/DD/solutions/index.html (Cross Platform
Solutions magazine)
www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/toolnames.html
  (Brad Myers' Tool List)
http://sal.kachinatech.com/index.shtml: SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux)
   is a collection of information and links to software that will be of interest
   to scientists and engineers.

MacDev developers list

To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:press_releases@mactech.com.  To
subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to listserv@listmail.xplain.com with
the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1".  To unsubscribe, the
SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1".

ct-Newsticker : mailto:presse@ct.heise.de

List of sites and addresses from tn0013.txt:

a) FreshMeat:
   - http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxwindowsgtk/
   - username and password are "wxgtk" for logging in
   - hit "new release" at the top
   - follow the step by step

b) wx-announce mailing list: mailto:wx-announce@lists.wxwindows.org

   [where is the announcement text? TODO]

c) update www.wxwindows.org

d) GNOME (very effective, stays on front page for days):
    - http://www.gnome.org/applist
    - Search for wxWindows
    - Update the version number
    - Ignore the error message

e) MacNN:
   - http://www.macnn.com
   - Contact or Contribute or something
   - email news@macnn.com <news@macnn.com>

f) MacRumors:
   - http://www.macrumors.com
   - Contact or Contribute or something

g) Apple Developer Connection:
    mailto: adcnews@apple.com

h) LinuxDevices.com:
    Interesting for wxUniversal.


Shareware sites
----------------

We could put a demo (e.g. widgets) on:

winfiles.com
tucows.com
upload.com (zdnet)
simtel.net
shareware.com

among others.

Linux distributors:
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Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, etc.

PC Magazines:
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CD-ROM distributions for PC Plus, PCW

Organisations:
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http://www.egovos.org/ The Center of Open Source & Government 
(Submitted to their directory, 2003-04-25)