Rev's Mac-Centricity (Was: Plea to sell Dan's book widely)

[Dan Shafer]

On Aug 8, 2004, at 3:40 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> One area that has been historically weak at the various incarnations 
> of the RunRev site is demonstrating the scope of the "infrastructure": 
> there has not been (nor is there currently) a page devoted to 
> Conferences and Events, where folks can see that RunRev has acquired 
> an audience sufficient to have three conferences this year alone, with 
> several regional users groups starting up.
>
Good point. I think this is a subset of the whole issue of how and why 
RunRev ought to promote the power of this community in the broader 
sense. I'd like to see a front-page link to a section of the site 
maintained by one or more users where we flat-out brag about this tool 
and what it can do, what we've done with it, what we know about that 
others have done, etc. Maybe we need to create an external site for 
this and get RunRev to link to it. We discussed something like this at 
the RMS in Monterey last month but so far nothing has happened as far 
as I know.

> Beyond that, what other things might help make the value of choosing 
> Rev more self-evident?
>
user contributions that are *apps* rather than dev tools and developer 
support, that solve real-world problems in interesting ways, that are 
open sourced so that newbies can open them, look at them, understand 
them, adapt them, and learn from them.

> The value's there.  The problem isn't the tool, it's communicating 
> what the tool has already accomplished.

Given that you're right -- and I'm not yet convinced you are -- then we 
need to band together as a community and make this case much, much 
stronger.

What we need is a special group of evangelists out promoting the crap 
out of this thing. Maybe RunRev can create something like the MS VIP 
program?

Dan