[Foundation-l] Promoting a non-foundation project?

[Dan Bolser]

On 28/06/07, Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am writing to ask about promoting (and to promote) my project,
> http://BioDatabase.Org - a MediaWiki run "database of biological
> databases". This is a 'non-foundation' project run under the 'BioWiki'
> collection of BioPedias - http://BiO.CC
>
> I am not sure if this is the correct list to contact (and apologies if
> it isn't), but I am interested in information regarding the promotion
> of MediaWiki based projects. Like any user contributed resource, the
> site needs contributors to be worth anything. I would like to find out
> about where and how to try to attract users, and to ask members of
> this list if they are interested in looking at this project.
>
> I will be promoting the project to biologists via the 'bioinformatics
> bulletin board' run at http://Bioinformatics.Org but the project
> really needs people who know MediaWiki inside out, have experience
> with working on large community projects, and who are willing to help
> out with this kind of work.
>
> Currently I am thinking to similarly email the "Wikipedia-L" list with
> a 'call for contributors', but beyond that I don't know what to do...
> Any suggestions are very welcome!
>
> Thanks for all the great work!
>
> Dan.
>


Sorry, did the above email not get through for some reason? If the
above request is being ignored as an inappropriate message for the
list, I would appreciate being notified of the reason why.

Thanks again,

Dan.