On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 09:28:13PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > .... where are they and how do I get their attention? > > Hi Folks, > > Open source software development involves a lot of distributed > collaboration - and I expect that many folks here, like me, are > involved in one or more projects, and dealing with all kinds of > project management administrivia. So.. I wonder if I might solicit > opinions.... I think project management means different things to different people. I find that 0 (zero, none, nada) of project management applications meet my needs as owner of a small language services provider (translation agency), for instance. They all seem overly complex and unadapted to my particular needs while managing translation projects. I've started writing a translation project management platform, myself, in php/mysql. http://tonyb.us/transprocloud > > I've been working on some open source software to support virtual teams > and projects - putting some of the experiences and techniques I've > acquired over the years into code - and I'm trying to gather some > support via Kickstarter. > I imagine if I put my project up on kickstarter, I would get exactly 0 (zero, none, nada) support, too. > The thing is, I'm having a very hard time getting people to even visit > the project's web page - so far, only about 300 people have visited the > Kickstarter page, despite some serious attempts to spread the word > across various email lists, twitter, and so forth. Nobody cares about project management platforms, except people who write them, I'm starting to believe. > > It's one thing if people were looking at the page and not contributing, > but I can't even seem to get people's attention - which suggestions one > or more of four things: > > - nobody cares about project management BINGO! WE HAVE A WINNER! > (I hope this isn't the case - I > know administrivia isn't sexy, but an awful lot of people are working on > an awful lot of projects, and getting buried in mountains of paper, > email, phone calls, texts, meetings, and yellow stickies. I sure know > that I'm always looking for ways to declutter that side of my life) > > - I'm not reaching people who care. ./tony -- http://www.tonybaldwin.me all tony, all the time! 3F330C6E
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