Re: [Auth]marketing strategy

[Barry Fitzgerald]

Kenneth Peiruza wrote:
> 
> El Saturday 11 August 2001 10:31, Norbert Bollow escribió:
> > "Kurt L. Sussman" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Ron Burk <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > > > >If the vendors want to participate, they could help pump up the user
> > > > >base in the early stages.
> > > >
> > > > It's the entire ecosystem that matters here. Attracting the web page
> > > > monkeys is at least as critical as signing up the vendors. That's why
> > > > it's important that the mechanism be accessible to even the most
> > > > non-technical creator of web pages.
> > >
> > > OK, then the HTML editor vendors should be contacted next, so they can
> > > include templates for building dotGNU-compatible forms, right? And once
> > > there's a working client, we(*) need to write articles for all the web
> > > design sites on building and using dotGNU-compatible forms.
> >
> > Sounds like a workable marketing strategy to me.
> >
> > Greetings, Norbert.
> 
> Mee too, but it's true. We need a target market in order to place our
> products.
> 
> The market is there, what we really need to do to be successful is, IMHO,
> create or modify (also within plugins) software able to generate DotGNU
> enabled sites easily.
> 
> Dunno if the Redmond guys had ever done this kind of docs, but te do this
> kind of soft, enabling plain-encefalogram-guys to create sites whithin their
> "custom&uncompatible" "improvements".
> 
> Bluefish needs to be more Dreamweaver-alike, because it's so nice for CGI
> developers but still a bit unfriendly to those who don't know much about HTML.
> 
> I'll take a look into bluefish's homepage, I hope someone has started this
> kind of feature, I don't feel enought self-confident to code GTK right now.
> 


Just catching up on some auth traffic that didn't get sent to me until
recently - e-mail problems occured... in any case...

If you're interested in bluefish, we can also work on this on the
website list.  I'm very interested in bluefish and have been using it
for some time.  I wouldn't mind funneling some work into it.

        -Barry