Subject: Fwd: Featured: wvWare-40
From: Dom Lachowicz (cinamod@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 13:57:47 CDT
>From: featuredprojects@sourceforge.net
>To: mv@liisa.pp.fi,cinamod@hotmail.com
>Subject: Featured: wvWare-40
>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:50:19 -0700
>
>Hello,
>
>My name is Patrick McGovern and I manage SourceForge.net. As one of our
>most active projects, I'm writing to you because we are rolling out a plan
>in which will be promoting individual projects on SourceForge, on the OSDN
>network, and in the press.
>
>This promotion will help projects such as yours gain more visibility, get
>more people using the project's code, and ultimately increase the success
>of your project as a whole. (more feedback, downloads, code submissions
>etc.)
>
>'Featured Project of the week' is our first program that will be rolled
>out during the May time frame. With FPOTW we will be spotlighting an
>active project on SourceForge that has a unique value to Open Source and
>the community as a whole. The weekly project selected will be displayed
>on the front page of SourceForge, it will have banners displayed on the
>OSDN network (SourceForge.net, Freshmeat.net, Slashdot.org, etc.) and it
>will be brought to the attention of the press (trade publications, etc.)
>encouraging them to write about it.
>
>I'm writing this email to first see if you have interest in increasing
>your visibility....and if so, get some information from you that will help
>us promote your project.
>
>A couple of things: There is zero cost in this promotion to you. We are
>happy to do it, and it also promotes SourceForge which benefits us all.
>The information you supply below, will not be private. Assuming you want
>to be promoted, we will use the information in every way possible to
>promote your project and SourceForge. This includes using the quotes on
>the site, on banners, giving them to the press etc. Also we will not be
>promoting every project. So replying to this email does not guarantee
>that your project will be promoted in this program, but it makes it vastly
>more likely.
>
>Please reply to this email (featuredproject@sourceforge.net) and fill in
>the form below. If you have any specific questions, you can contact me
>directly at pat@sourceforge.net. Thank you.
>
>
>
>Are you interested in being promoted by SourceForge and the OSDN
>network?
>1) ______ (Yes/No)
>
>
>
>Would you like to be considered for Project of the Week on SF?
>2) ______ (Yes/NO)
>
>
>Name of Project 3) ________
>
>
>Number of Key Developers 4) ________
>
>
>Lead Developer/point of contact ________________
>
>
>Date the Project was started (not the SF start date all though they may
>be the same. 5) ___________
>
>
>Why did you choose SourceForge to host your project?
>6)
>
>
>What unique value does your project have to Open Source and/or the
>community as a whole?
>7)
>
>
>If we made a banner about your project, with crisp, dynamic words that
>excited people about your project and explained a little of what it
>is....what would those words be? Keep it short...it's a banner after
>all.
>8)
>
>
>
>What category is your project in the Trove Map? (Yeah I could look...but
>it's easier to ask)
>9)
>
>
>Why did you choose SourceForge to host your project? (no more then 10
>sentences)
>10)
>
>
>
>Short quote on why SourceForge is great (assuming you feel this way
>:-). This is a quote we'll use in a couple of places. Less then ~20
>words.
>11)
>
>
>What name should we associate with the quote above....ie...
>Barry White, Deep Voice Project.
>12)
>
>
>
>Would you be available to talk to the press directly for quotes, an
>interview, or story?
>13) (yes/no)
>
>
>
>If yes, what is the best email/or phone number to reach you to discuss
>the project. Note if phone number, we will not publish the number on
>the site. We will only give it out if requested for contact info by the
>press.
>14)
>
>
>For the Featured project of the week....is there a particular upcoming
>software release or event that would be ideal to coincide with the
>promotion? If so, what is the event and the approximate time frame this
>would happen. (I know it's hard to guesstimate release dates...)
>15)
>
>
>Anything else you want to mention? About your project or SourceForge?
>16)
>
>
>
>I want to thank you for your time. If you have any questions, please
>feel free to email me.
>
>
>Thank you.
>
>Pat-
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