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Overview#
Quick notes for now, will refine into documentation
—Dave Koelmeyer, 2016-04-12T10:35:36.762Z
—Dave Koelmeyer, 2016-04-12T10:35:36.762Z
Idea grab-bag#
- Documenting JSPWiki's clear strengths, use cases, target audience(s).
- Friendly user community.
- Improving the appearance of the JSPWikiSites page to be more visually attractive, perhaps with thumbnail icons – something other than a long listing of text.
- What are our specific advantages compared to alternate wiki engines?
- Increasing our release cadence such that fixes are more visible. Witness Mozilla Thunderbird's resurgence from being perceived as moribund.
- Marketing aside, where does JSPWiki come up short compared to alternate wiki engines?
- A new, official blog for JSPWiki. (Apache-hosted would be quickest and easiest).
- Blog content: A tip or feature of the week (especially for Haddock) is an easy way to generate content. Maybe a feature on more obscure JSPWiki features, like categories, little-known plugins, JSPWiki variables?
- Blog content posted first and foremost on the actual blog, with links then published to our presence on Facebook and Twitter.
- Reach out (somehow) to folks running old JSPWiki installations – how can we persuade them to a) upgrade and b) switch to Haddock? Sites running the legacy skins may work against us in marketing a modern wiki with a fresh look and feel.
- A logo/brand refresh? Ideally we have a designer work on this, perhaps via a community contribution. Cover photos for social networks (Mozilla Thunderbird has solicited design contributions for its social networks cover photos, for example), maybe even a new logo for JSPWiki itself (there are some historical emails on this from a few years back – locate and revisit).
- Focusing our marketing message on attracting businesses and organisations (not exclusively, mind) might help with raising our notability (e.g. for re-establishing a Wikipedia presence, industry articles.)
- Collate all the discussion on the users mailing list around the "Open Discussion - How to increasing JSPWiki publicity" thread and sum up/document the various comments.