Taking a month off from OSS volunteering

Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by pryelluw on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @09:27PM (#13234282)

Ive been thinking about contributing with my marketing/business skills. Though Im not sure how receptive people might be. Marketing is such a taboo issue in tech that it might backfire and create a shit storm of incredible proportions around me.

What do fellow HN'ers think?

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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by BuuQu9hu on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @11:37PM (#13234854)

I think FLOSS projects do such a bad job at marketing and publicity that you would be doing them an immense favour volunteering your skills in that way. OTOH, increasing popularity increases workload so you would have to be careful about scaling the user community at the correct rate.

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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by pryelluw on Thursday December 22, 2016 @01:13AM (#13235274)

Good points. I've been thinking about this for about a while and really want to do it. Anyone interested? Do you think I should do a ASK HN type of thread offering my contribution?

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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by BuuQu9hu on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:28PM (#13242597)

Go with an Ask HN thread.

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Re:Taking a month off from OSS volunteering by pryelluw on Friday December 23, 2016 @12:00AM (#13242955)

Thanks for the feedback. I shall do that once new year has passed. :)

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