[Lazarus] Lazarus and FPC teams need direction for marketing/promotion

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Andrew Brunner wrote:
> I honestly think this conversation would be better served asking questions like
> 
> How can Lazarus get noticed more?
> How can Lazarus get more exposure/adoption?
> How can Lazarus get industry sponsorship?
> How can Lazarus get educational institutions to explore development
> using Lazarus/FPC?
> 
> IMO, a larger percentage of the development space is something that
> can be attained.  Support for alternative operating systems like linux
> and offer a break from Microsoft (namely via Ubuntu) should be a
> marketing sweet spot.

Which I think is one reason why a potential port of FPC onto the IBM 
mainframe architecture is interesting. As I understand it, C is far less 
popular in that environment and there is a fair amount of legacy Pascal 
code: providing a mature development environment which would allow 
projects to move in both directions could be popular.

> Library support for hot topic Information Technologies.  FPC/Lazarus
> must follow trends and include components.  A broad range of component
> support is essential.
> 
> Example: Social is trendy so FPC/Lazarus should come with components
> to interface with Craigslist / Facebook / Twitter / Google .  Access
> requires http or https requests so openssl would need to be more fully
> developed.

But one problem there is that by the time the component has been 
written/documented/marketed today's hot topic is very much yesterday's. 
What's more, if the owner of the service expects people to use it via 
HTML or Flash, and anybody doing a mashup is used to doing that type of 
job PHP/Perl/Python, then an attempt to muscle in could be met with 
hostility.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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