Suggestions and a Request
I'd like to step in with an offer to help on this.
I'm not much of a programmer, but I have written many press releases.
I think that this discussion is great.
One thing that I've been noticing is that 'marketing' is kinda being talked about in the abstract. To me, marketing is just strategic thinking combined with communication. It is not a magic bullet.
Just so that we're all on the same page, I have a few questions.
Is the goal of this thread to increase the number of corporate users
OR get more users of any type
OR win awards and press for Xoops?
Is the goal is to bring XOOPS into competition with something like WebSphere?
That is a BIG task. Possible and yet it would require a real unified effort, which seems difficult in practice when dealing with open source development.
It seems really that this thread is about bringing XOOPS up to the next level.
I know several small tweaks that could be done from a Search Engine perspective that would geometrically increase XOOPS implementation.
I think that would be a good tactic because:
1. it would be cheap.
2. It doesn't involve that much work just some minor changes.
3. Once it was put in place it woulds run automatically.
Asides from those tweaks, I think the focus should be on
-improving documentation, specifically for modules like newbb2
-cleaning up some of the admin pages for the modules
-Creating new modules that fill needs that the other CMS's are not doing that businesses need.
I have contacted several of the core XOOPS developers to develop some features I want, offering to pay them for their work. Most don't respond, which puzzles me.
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If you have coded parts of XOOPS core and Newbb2 and are interested in picking up some paid work, PM me and I'll share the basic idea.