"Greg M. Johnson" wrote:
> 
> 
> 1) I think that not that many people have yet heard about it.   My geocities
> statistics for the  http://www.geocities/pterandon/10best.html page showed only 223
> hits after several months existence; when I had a tutorial web page advertised on
> http://povray.org, it got 1000 hits very quickly.  My conclusion is that many more
> people will see something discussed on http://povray.org than on
> news:news.povray.org
> 

I understand that problem, a good idea would be working stronger on
advertisement - offering banners to be placed on personal websites, doing
translations of the announcement pages to different languages (i could help with
a german version), asking related websites apart from povray.org to make
announcements...

Maybe also a more eye-catching layout for the page - i like it as it is, but not
everyone does ...

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> 
> 3) In any case, I anticipate  December 15 for OPENING of submissions; with a min of
> 2 weeks, perhaps longer.  I also anticipate the complications of setting up the
> tutorial pages to take longer.  Also, if  20 people participate instead of 200 or
> 20000 we may have to extend the deadline much much longer or drop the project
> altogether.

I think that's a problematic point, because many people especially hesitate to
take part in a project that has no definite future (i know that's quite a
dilemma, because the future is mainly influenced by the people taking part :) so
i would not suggest opening submissions without a defined deadline.  

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
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