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LinuxConf.Au: What do you mean, marketing? Promoting open source projects

scoundrel — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:13:30 GMT

I've been writing about Linux and open source professionally for more than seven years. I'm currently the editorial director for Linux.com, and I've also written for Linux Magazine, UnixReview.com, Linux Weekly News, ZDNet, and a number of other publications. During this time, I've had an opportunity to see how projects succeed -- and good PR and marketing for a project is crucial to its success, so I'd like to have the opportunity to discuss the best ways for projects to promote themselves and ensure success.

To that end, I'll start by briefly emphasizing the importance of PR and marketing -- which also coincide nicely with community building -- and point to some projects that have done well in this area, such as GNOME, PostgreSQL, KDE, Mozilla, and others.

I will then discuss ways that projects can promote themselves, both to users and developers, including:

Improving the project's homepage.
Finding volunteers to handle PR and marketing efforts.
Improving documentation.
Community code of conduct.
Announcing releases and providing useful reviewer information.

I will also provide some templates for release announcements and discuss the best ways to ensure that projects receive press coverage.

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LinuxConf.Au: Mozilla Extension Writing Tutorial

scoundrel — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:45:17 GMT

We propose a two part tutorial, the first covering the basics of writing an extension for Mozilla-based applications, and the second walking through a non-trivial extension which interacts with network services.

Extensions are a powerful way to extend and enhance Mozilla-based applications such as Firefox, Flock (which Ian and I work on), Epiphany, Songbird, etc. The technology behind them is also useful for developing standalone applications with rich web and network access, via the XULRunner platform.

The first, basic tutorial will cover:

XPCOM: The Mozilla component object model
XUL: The UI language
The way Javascript fits into this
Bundling and distributing and extension
Things to watch out for to prevent exploits

The more advanced tutorial will cover:

Interacting with a web service
Data storage
More complex UI usage
How to target multiple Mozilla-based applications
Security implications of dealing with web services

Both tutorials will guide the attendees through building a working extension. The advanced tutorial will involve some Flock specific features, but the extension will still work in Firefox, and only enable some things if it is run under Flock.

More information on what Flock is all about is available at http://www.flock.com/

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Open Source Developers at Google Speaker Series: Camino

scoundrel — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:00:01 GMT

Google Tech Talks
January 19, 2007

ABSTRACT

Mike Pinkerton will discuss the past, present and future of Camino development, along with lessons learned from Mozilla and the open source community.

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Introduction to CSS editing using Firebug

scoundrel — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:39:57 GMT

The Firebug Firefox extension allows you to edit in real time your CSS code. Instead of having to make a change, reload, make a change, reload you can just edit it live to see the results. This small video demonstrates how to use Firebug to work with CSS.

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Introduction to Debugging AJAX Application with Firebug

scoundrel — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 18:36:04 GMT

Small but interesting and useful tutorial that covers an introduction to debugging AJAX applications with Firebug Firefox extension.

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Hacking Digg With Firebug and jQuery

scoundrel — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:38:38 GMT

This is an adaptation of a presentation that John Resig gave while at Mashup Camp Boston. We’re going to take an introductory look at the Firebug Firefox Extension and the jQuery JavaScript Library - combining the two to build a reusable bookmarklet that can manipulate Digg Posts and Comments.

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Firebug 1.0 Beta Screencast

scoundrel — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:31:28 GMT

Just a few days ago Firebug 1.0 Beta was released, with loads and loads of new features. Roger Johansson calls it the web developer tool of the year:

With the recent release of Firebug 1.0 (beta – the old kind of beta, not a Web 2.0 eternal beta), this extension went from “great” to absolutely marvelous. A must have that no Web developer should do without. I’m serious – you need Firebug.

And, at last, couple days ago Firebug 1.0 Beta Screencast was released by Jesse Newland.

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