Hello John,

> 3) We need to ask the community to aggressively get each of these
> stories posted up on the major social news sites. This is where people
> get traffic and interest now. News has become 'Push', not many bother
> to pull new sources of information until its been pushed at them at
> least once.
>
> Let me give a concrete example, how did I find Firebird? During the
> Mozilla controversy on slashdot. It intrigued me, I looked deeper and
> I am a committed Firebird user now. I had to be pushed before I
> pulled.
>
> Finally, its really hard to get started with Firebird in a non-windows
> environment sometimes. We need some more comprehensive tutorials and
> every aspect of the various guides needs concrete examples. Even if
> its 'standard SQL' we should be overly verbose and then get this
> content indexed. Tutorials on things like:
>
> Using Firebird with Propel / Hibernate / Cayenne
> Using Firebird as a JDBC/JNDI datasource
> Using Firebird with ModPerl
> Firebird and PHP
> Firebird vs Mysql
> Migrating from Mysql/Postgres/Oracle To Firebird
> High Performance Firebird Development
> Stored Procedures in Firebird
> Triggers
> Embedded Firebird with Java
>
> To most people on this list these are simple topics but to the average
> developer who gets their entire information feed via Google Searches
> these are common questions and they are not on the mailing list to
> ask. Right now mysql wins almost all of those searches.
>
> I am willing to help out with newsletter content (case studies etc),
> wiki development, tutorials and the like.
>
> Sorry such a long message,

No worries, I'm currently the one taking this up and as soon as things
start, I'll contact you. I'm adding you to the team :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

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