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 microsoft.public.win32.programmer.wince
  19 microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer
  20 microsoft.public.smartphone.developer
  21
  22 Non-Microsoft:
  23
  24 comp.programming
  25 comp.os.linux.development.apps
  26 comp.os.linux.announce
  27 comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools
  28 comp.software-eng
  29 comp.lang.c++
  30
  31 borland.public.cppbuilder.thirdpartytools (newsgroups.borland.com)
  32
  33 comp.windows.x
  34 comp.windows.x.announce
  35 comp.windows.x.motif
  36
  37 Note: submissions to comp.os.linux.announce must be
  38 sent to cola@stump.algebra.com, with short descr
  39 of software and location. See http://stump.algebra.com/~cola/
  40 NO CROSSPOSTING when sending to this address.
  41
  42 Pack plenty information into the subject.
  43 Don't write a subject like "Foo version 1.1 released". Many
  44 people will not know what Foo is, so the subject won't help them
  45 select articles. Instead, say "Foo 1.1 - copy files more
  46 efficiently than cp". There is no need to say that the article
  47 is an announcement, so don't write a subject like "ANNOUNCEMENT:
  48 Foo version 1.1 released".
  49
  50 News and links sites:
  51 -----------------------
  52
  53 slashdot.org, freshmeat.net, http://lwn.net/
  54
  55 Many of these links will be out of date now:
  56
  57 www.Linuxberg.com
  58 www.visual-developer.com (Visual Developer Magazine, editor:
  59   Jeff Duntemann <jeffd@coriolis.com>)
  60 http://www.hal9k.com/cug/index.htm (C/C++ user group)
  61 www.program.com
  62 www.graphtech.com/vcgroup.html (VC++ user group)
  63 www.motifzone.com
  64 fsw.com
  65 landru.unx.com/DD/advisor/index.shtml (X advisor journal)
  66 landru.unx.com/DD/solutions/index.html (Cross Platform
  67 Solutions magazine)
  68 www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/bam/www/toolnames.html
  69   (Brad Myers' Tool List)
  70 http://sal.kachinatech.com/index.shtml: SAL (Scientific Applications on Linux)
  71    is a collection of information and links to software that will be of interest
  72    to scientists and engineers.
  73
  74 MacDev developers list
  75
  76 To submit a posting to MacDev-1, mailto:press_releases@mactech.com.  To
  77 subscribe to MacDev-1, send mail to listserv@listmail.xplain.com with
  78 the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1".  To unsubscribe, the
  79 SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE MACDEV-1".
  80
  81 ct-Newsticker : mailto:presse@ct.heise.de
  82
  83 List of sites and addresses from tn0013.txt:
  84
  85 a) FreshMeat:
  86    - http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxwindowsgtk/
  87    - username and password are "wxgtk" for logging in
  88    - hit "new release" at the top
  89    - follow the step by step
  90
  91 b) wx-announce mailing list: mailto:wx-announce@lists.wxwindows.org
  92
  93    [where is the announcement text? TODO]
  94
  95 c) update www.wxwidgets.org
  96
  97 d) GNOME (very effective, stays on front page for days):
  98     - http://www.gnome.org/applist
  99     - Search for wxWidgets
 100     - Update the version number
 101     - Ignore the error message
 102
 103 e) MacNN:
 104    - http://www.macnn.com
 105    - Contact or Contribute or something
 106    - email news@macnn.com <news@macnn.com>
 107
 108 f) MacRumors:
 109    - http://www.macrumors.com
 110    - Contact or Contribute or something
 111
 112 g) Apple Developer Connection:
 113     mailto: adcnews@apple.com
 114
 115 h) LinuxDevices.com:
 116     Interesting for wxUniversal.
 117
 118
 119 Shareware sites
 120 ----------------
 121
 122 We could put a demo (e.g. widgets) on:
 123
 124 winfiles.com
 125 tucows.com
 126 upload.com (zdnet)
 127 simtel.net
 128 shareware.com
 129
 130 among others.
 131
 132 Linux distributors:
 133 --------------------
 134
 135 Red Hat, SuSE, Debian, etc.
 136
 137 PC Magazines:
 138 --------------
 139
 140 CD-ROM distributions for PC Plus, PCW
 141
 142 Organisations:
 143 --------------
 144
 145 http://www.egovos.org/ The Center of Open Source & Government
 146 (Submitted to their directory, 2003-04-25)
 147
 148 http://www.opensector.org/
 149 (nothing submitted yet)
 150