[Epo-marketing] Proposal: 52 Weeks of Perl

[J. Shirley]

On Dec 3, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Mike Whitaker wrote:

>
> On 3 Dec 2008, at 19:03, J. Shirley wrote:
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>> I have an initial proposal that should have immediate feedback.
>> Please respond with any comments, questions or ideas.
>>
>> I propose that we (the EPO) initiate weekly contact with an
>> Industry-respected publication (either in print or digital format) to
>> establish a series of articles favorable to the packages and
>> methodologies backed by the EPO.
>>
>> The articles or interviews should be based specifically towards the
>> audience of the publication, as evidenced by my initial suggestions
>> below.  I propose contact be made no later than Tuesday, with one
>> contact to each publication per week.  This should give significant
>> time to carefully responding and being attentive to each publication,
>> without crowding our own schedules to the point where something falls
>> through the cracks.
>
> Sounds like an excellent plan. Particularly, I'd hope this allows us  
> to get more folks drawn in to help contribute - there are a lot of  
> excellent folks out there with EPO-aligned views I want on board.
>
> Also, I trust whatever schedule we work to will allow epo-marketing  
> (which I'm seeing as the EPO publicity/marketing working group) to  
> review/provide help for any articles/interviews so that they're on- 
> message and well put together.
>

I think a restriction is that we do have a party line, and any  
prepared articles are vetted through us first.  On interviews, if it  
is going to be a real EPO thing then only EPO Marketing WG members get  
to go.


>> Initial list of publications to contact (all in print, digital
>> suggestions welcome), along with a proposed angle:
>>
>> CIO Insight - Saving time and money with OSS and CPAN
>> Public CIO - Saving time and money with OSS and CPAN
>> Website Magazine - Rapid application development using leading Perl  
>> practices
>> Baseline - Leadership, "What can OSS do for your business in
>> atremulous economy" (hiring, passionate devs, etc)
>> T.H.E. journal - Perl in Academia (Perl as a student programming
>> language, Summer of Code?)
>> CSO - Writing secure perl applications (not sure if the EPO wants  
>> this)
>> eWEEK - Perl beyond the duct tape
>> InformationWeek - Upcoming Perl (5.10 and beyond)
>> KMWorld - Upcoming Perl (5.10 and beyond)
>> Redmond - Perl on Win32 (perhaps get an ActiveState/Strawberry person
>> in? Is this for the EPO?)
>
>
> I bow to the experts here - I'm not familiar with the target  
> publication field at all. TBH.

Paging Cory Watson, Cory Watson to the white courtesy phone.

-J