On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:42:03AM +0100, Luke Slater wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As you might already know, I wrote a blog post for Buzz the other > day[1] and it gained around 109 clicks[2] from Identi.ca and Twitter, > as well as many views from Fedora planet. We got some feedback on the > post and the main points were as follows: > > * Buzz isn't all that great of a name for it. > * OpenMarketing as a proposed name for the platform (from Gerard) > * Similar to KDE Buzz and we should take a look at what they're doing > (was someone working on seeing whether the code for that was open?) > but it's sufficiently different to warrant a new piece of software. > * Marketing about marketing is a good thing! A couple ideas regarding this service: * We should really pick a distinctive name for this service, even if we share code with another such service. And we should do that as soon as possible, because names tend to stick, and it's harder to change a name once people start using it. * I'd be interested in knowing whether we can accomplish this service as a module for the content management system. That way we can get your help on that system, and at the same time you may not have to write the entire delivery mechanism from scratch. (Yay, free software!) By the way, here's a freebie -- if we *can* do this as part of the CMS, then we already have a distinctive name, Fedora Insight, and this is yet another awesome function that platform can deliver. Insight is meant to aggregate and report content, and it seems to me this is a natural fit for that goal. * Once we have those two pieces of information, doing the design is probably best as an up-front goal. I think most designers would tell you it's easier to start with the design -- meaning you can clearly establish your goals and requirements -- rather than trying to change all that once the backend has already been written. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
