What are YOUR plans to publicize Tapestry?

["Howard M. Lewis Ship" <hl...@attbi.com>]

Here's a question that each and every person on this list should be able to
answer:

"What are YOUR plans to publicize Tapestry?"

At this point, we all have a pretty heavy commitment to Tapestry ... after
all, who wants to go back to JSPs?  However, what Tapestry needs more than
anything else is to be publicized properly.

There are a number of on-line outlets for technical papers on Java
technology: developerWorks and OnJava leap to mind.

These folks are looking for just a couple of thousand words.

Other options might be to give a Tapestry presentation at your local Java
Users' Group.  We even have some presentation materials to start with.

Sure, there's more coding to do (we need to start writing real kick-ass
client-side components) ... but there will always be that stuff.  Writing
code is easy, swaying minds is hard, and its more than I can do myself ...
more than all the Tapestry committers can do.  I get a fairly constant
stream of people asking what they can do for Tapestry ... looking for code
assignments I guess.  What we need is people to learn Tapestry, use it and
write about it for all the folks who don't have the time and initiative to
do so themselves.

Just some thoughts.  

--
Howard M. Lewis Ship
Creator, Tapestry: Java Web Components
http://jakarta.apache.org/tapestry

Re: What are YOUR plans to publicize Tapestry?

[Tetsuya Kitahata <te...@nifty.com>]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:15:48 -0400
(Subject: What are YOUR plans to publicize Tapestry?)
"Howard M. Lewis Ship" <hl...@attbi.com> wrote:

> Here's a question that each and every person on this list should be able to
> answer:

> "What are YOUR plans to publicize Tapestry?"

First of all, (in marketing point of view, in other word, 
Search Engine Optimization // SEO)
do not use "frames" on the main and other pages. I am sure
this will be solved by your plan of maven-ization or
forrest-ization. And append meaningful <title>
to each pages for ranking up in google.
Just "<title>Tapestry</title>" is meaningless, because
this is for only those who know the name, "Tapestry".

Second, (this is just for Japanese users) translations
of the all of the documents of Tapestry into Japanese
might be a help.
I will not translate them until the maven-ization or 
forrest-ization would be in progress.
I'd translated the website of Jakarta (and related) projects,
more than 10 projects (including jakarta-poi,bcel,commons and so on),
and fortunately? I did not translate Velocity and JSP related products'
website ;-)

Three, hurry up to get many "enthusiastic" users of Tapestry and
let them to write articles on their blogs or websites (diaries).

--

If you are planning to porting the existing website to
Forrest-like one, maybe I can help on these portions.

And I will write some articles on Tapestry in Japanese
in the near future. (in monthly magazine or something)

Sincerely,


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Tetsuya Kitahata --  Terra-International, Inc.
E-mail: kitahata@bb.mbn.or.jp
http://www.terra-intl.com/
(Apache Jakarta Translation, Japanese)
http://jakarta.terra-intl.com/