docs/publicity/publicity.txt

   1 Publicity notes and ideas
   2 =========================
   3
   4 Release announcments can be made to the following
   5 newsgroups.
   6
   7 Microsoft:
   8
   9 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
  10 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools
  11 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc
  12 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.misc
  13 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
  14 comp.windows.ms.programmer
  15 microsoft.public.win32.programmer.tools
  16 microsoft.public.win32.programmer.ui
  17 microsoft.public.win32.programmer.3rdparty
  18
  19 Non-Microsoft:
  20
  21 comp.programming
  22 comp.os.linux.development.apps
  23 comp.os.linux.announce
  24 comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools
  25 comp.software-eng
  26 comp.lang.c++
  27
  28 borland.public.cppbuilder.thirdpartytools (newsgroups.borland.com)
  29
  30 comp.windows.x
  31 comp.windows.x.announce
  32 comp.windows.x.motif
  33
  34 Note: submissions to comp.windows.linux.announce must be
  35 sent to cola@stump.algebra.com, with short descr
  36 of software and location. See http://stump.algebra.com/~cola/
  37 NO CROSSPOSTING when sending to this address.
  38
  39 Pack plenty information into the subject.
  40 Don't write a subject like "Foo version 1.1 released". Many
  41 people will not know what Foo is, so the subject won't help them
  42 select articles. Instead, say "Foo 1.1 - copy files more
  43 efficiently than cp". There is no need to say that the article
  44 is an announcement, so don't write a subject like "ANNOUNCEMENT:
  45 Foo version 1.1 released".
  46
  47 News and links sites:
  48 -----------------------
  49
  50 slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, http://lwn.net/
  51
  52 Many of these links will be out of date now:
  53
  54 www.Linuxberg.com
  55 www.visual-developer.com (Visual Developer Magazine, editor:
  56   Jeff Duntemann <jeffd@coriolis.com>)
  57 http://www.hal9k.com/cug/index.htm (C/C++ user group)
  58 www.program.com
  59 www.graphtech.com/vcgroup.html (VC++ user group)
  60 www.motifzone.com
  61 fsw.com
  62 landru.unx.com/DD/advisor/index.shtml (X advisor journal)
  63 landru.unx.com/DD/solutions/index.html (Cross Platform
  64 Solutions magazine)
  65 www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/toolnames.html
  66   (Brad Myers' Tool List)
  67 http://sal.kachinatech.com/index.shtml: SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux)
  68    is a collection of information and links to software that will be of interest
  69    to scientists and engineers.
  70
  71 MacDev developers list
  72
  73 To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:press_releases@mactech.com.  To
  74 subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to listserv@listmail.xplain.com with
  75 the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1".  To unsubscribe, the
  76 SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1".
  77
  78 ct-Newsticker : mailto:presse@ct.heise.de
  79
  80 List of sites and addresses from tn0013.txt:
  81
  82 a) FreshMeat:
  83    - http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxwindowsgtk/
  84    - username and password are "wxgtk" for logging in
  85    - hit "new release" at the top
  86    - follow the step by step
  87
  88 b) wx-announce mailing list: mailto:wx-announce@lists.wxwindows.org
  89
  90    [where is the announcement text? TODO]
  91
  92 c) update www.wxwidgets.org
  93
  94 d) GNOME (very effective, stays on front page for days):
  95     - http://www.gnome.org/applist
  96     - Search for wxWidgets
  97     - Update the version number
  98     - Ignore the error message
  99
 100 e) MacNN:
 101    - http://www.macnn.com
 102    - Contact or Contribute or something
 103    - email news@macnn.com <news@macnn.com>
 104
 105 f) MacRumors:
 106    - http://www.macrumors.com
 107    - Contact or Contribute or something
 108
 109 g) Apple Developer Connection:
 110     mailto: adcnews@apple.com
 111
 112 h) LinuxDevices.com:
 113     Interesting for wxUniversal.
 114
 115
 116 Shareware sites
 117 ----------------
 118
 119 We could put a demo (e.g. widgets) on:
 120
 121 winfiles.com
 122 tucows.com
 123 upload.com (zdnet)
 124 simtel.net
 125 shareware.com
 126
 127 among others.
 128
 129 Linux distributors:
 130 --------------------
 131
 132 Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, etc.
 133
 134 PC Magazines:
 135 --------------
 136
 137 CD-ROM distributions for PC Plus, PCW
 138
 139 Organisations:
 140 --------------
 141
 142 http://www.egovos.org/ The Center of Open Source & Government
 143 (Submitted to their directory, 2003-04-25)
 144
 145 http://www.opensector.org/
 146 (nothing submitted yet)
 147