Marketing Activities planned

Open tasks and ideas

All Tasks in this List are added to the Marketing Task-List. Please use the Task-Web to add new Marketing-Tasks.

• Establish marketing basics
  • Create a logo
  • Establish a website layout (Thanks for this cool preliminary page to all the contributors!)
• Define competition in the market and analyze them thoroughly.
• Create a marketing-section, that is convincing and includes Screenshots, Advantages and Marketing-Videos
• Organize the translation of that marketing section and offer an easy checklist to work through.
• Coordinate a thorough and sustainable SEO-performance for Foswiki.
  • http://www.foswiki.org/Community/TWikiWatchTWikiContributors could be used as a citation that "most developers have moved" that is being requested on the article
• Convert all Foswiki-cheer-up-Mails into testimonials on the Foswiki-Website.
• We could offer Foswiki-webinars in different languages. That is a possibility to show expertise for consultants and a perfect chance to spread the amount of installations of Foswiki. (AlexanderWeimer)
• Take over customer success stories and testimonials from the TWiki-website and use it for Foswiki here. (Make sure, that everybody understand, that Foswiki-Testimonials are Foswiki-Testimonials.)
• Implement a Foswiki-Installation-List (see TWiki-List and take over the contents)
• Add entry to http://www.linux.org (it scores very well in google results) (WillNorris)

Detailed plans

Wikipedia

State: deferred

Committed Fossie: ...

Description: Contact deletionists and discuss process to get a page of our own, at least getting away with this aweful redirect to TWiki. Only then after start writing up a nice article.

Notes: We don't have a Foswiki entry in Wikipedia. This has been tried several times before without success. Infact the more individual community members tried the draconian the judgement of the deletionists was. Today, Foswiki on Wikipedia redirects to TWiki. This not only hurts feelings but also Foswiki as a project and brand. Fact is that Foswiki still has to build up its brand and reputation and get on the radar of other people. Only then will we have a chance to be considered "notable" in terms of Wikipedia.

Related topics:

• Tasks.Item354
• WikipediaEntry
• WikipediaArticleBackup
• OpenLetterToWikipedia (please don't follow up on this initiative, that's a blind alley)

This marketing task is defered for now not to make things even worse.

Testimonials and Success Stories

State: running

Committed Fossie: MichaelDaum

Description: contact Foswiki users known to have an interesting story to tell about how they make use of Foswiki

Related topics:

• SuccessStories

Next actions:

• Paul Scherrer Institute - next action: contact Andre Lichtsteiner
• Quest at KQED - next action: AJ Alfieri-Crispin