Well, I see the point and also thought about it before. Why exactly do you think so? Is there a concept behind? Such a definition would have the following negative consequences:
- Less people are interested in Tryton (but on TUB23 was said there shall be more).
- Our great technologies get not or only slowly into the head of decision makers on the market.
- Decision makers can’t see that Tryton technology gets really used a lot in real projects.
- All you developers have already built wonderful technologies but only few talk about it. If there is no interested audience, nobody is interested in telling stories (e.g. success stories)
- Developers don’t get encouraged in talking about their great new stuff. Where are all the nice pictures of people working in all the great companies equipped with Tryton? There are hundreds of very interesting stories waiting to be published.
- If we can’t use our official platforms to communicate our success and ideas, we’d have to do it on private channels, as you mentioned above. That doesn’t work as I already tested. Each of us is too small and lacks of knowledge. Only together we are strong.
- Less earnings are possible and therefore less money is there to invest in new technologies and new deployments.
- Modern deployment methods can’t be detected by early adopters and so they struggle with unhandy on premise installations.
- the community (developers and integrators) can’t profit from new deployment technologies or have to build them themselves, what is quite complex (I thought of opening the tryton.cloud server farm to our community and already wrote a concept for that idea, that needs to be double checked).
- Mainly developers get interested in Tryton, but other kind of contributors (like me or also a customer company) can’t bring in their power (and perhaps bring forward the project).
- The community can’t profit that much if cooperations get struck. Also schools (at leas universities here in Switzerland) cooperate with companies and get power and reality fitness this way. Just look at all that great modules that were built in the last years with the money of the users companies. Just look at the missing user documentation.
So, …
- what’s the goal on investing a huge amount of time (and money therefore) in Newsletters, Facebook, (Instagram), Linkedin and website optimizations?
- What’s the existing marketing concept we can start with?