Jeff Spaleta wrote:
Actually she has more than that, I'm proactively telling her
about
'cool' new projects that I think might interest her. How do we expose
that to the general userbase at large? Can we collect 'personal
interests' and as things get added to Extras we fire off emails to
users who's personal interests overlap with the focus of the new
application package?
-jef
-jef
I think having interests lists is a great idea, but I'm not sure that
what you are thinking of is really something we should tackle. What
might be good for us is a small set of documents (I'm thinking in the
wiki) that go over what users with particular interests might like to
look in to. What I'm thinking:
/Interests
List of various interests
/Interests/Photos
List of packages and tools to look at for art and photos, eg. The Gimp
/Interests/Music
List of packages and tools to look at for music playback and
editing, eg. audacity
/Interests/Cooking
List of packages and tools to look at for cooking, eg. krecipes
I really don't think that collecting lists of users interests and
sending out mailings would work out well. It would take too many
resources to manage, IMHO. A third-party, distro-neutral site might be
able to do this. At least with this method, people could subscribe to
the wiki pages they are interested in.
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