[Lazarus] Lazarus Webpage

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 05/12/13 11:19, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Martin Frb wrote:
>> On 05/12/2013 09:15, Danny Weldon wrote:
>>> Maybe we need a bit more information on the Lazarus home page
>>> about it.
>> 
>>> Perhaps this should link to a wiki article with more information
>>> about the modern features of Free Pascal and answer common
>>> objections.
>>> 
>> 
>> There are links to the wiki, at the bottom. But the main page
>> should not go to the wiki. It's content should be reviewed before
>> publishing.
> 
> I wonder if I could make a slightly tangential comment here, using an
> analogy. What FPC/Lazarus really needs is not a party manifesto, but
> somebody to go on TV regularly and make the party case before the
> election: a Robin Cook or Boris Johnson figure that entertains as
> well as informs.
> 
I started forwarding press releases of new Lazarus versions to pr at lwn.net ;)

Maybe someone should write an article or two, even for a month, or two, 
to be published there...?
(or for the matter, on any FOSS related news site whatsoever, there are lots)
... e.g. on the topic like discussed on the 'future of the desktop' from our perspective?
(I'd do it if I had the time...)

> My own belief is that "the opposition" is not JavaScript or PHP. I
> think that it's Python, since that's what's being used for the quick
> hacks that once would have been done in Turbo Pascal or early
> versions of Delphi. And just as TP and Delphi hacks would have been
> put on a bulletin board or published via Compuserve or CIX, today's
> Python hacks- which are very often frontends to an Arduino or to a
> service such as Twitter- are capturing mindshare using publicity on
> websites such as Hackaday.
> 
Yeah we definitively lack good PR. As in press-releases /and/ Public Relations :J

> An accurate and attractive website is obviously important. But I
> think that the most good could be done by getting as many projects
> published (on Sourceforge, Berlios or whatever) as possible: if an
> idea strikes you then code it in Pascal, Polish it, Publish it and
> Promote it. Because if you've found a need for something then there's
> a fair chance that somebody else is also looking for it, and every
> project downloaded from Sourceforge etc. raises the profile of Pascal
> as a language and Lazarus as an effective IDE.
> 

>From my end, I can continue to spam lwn with press-releases ;)

-L.