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

[teun spaans]

it did get through, i read it and i visited the site briefly - did not have
time to have a thorough look at it.


On 7/2/07, Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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