Marketing Radar 3

[gratipay-bot]

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Docs

http://inside.gratipay.com/howto/sweep-the-radar

Mission

The mission of the marketing team is to communicate with the market, listening for problems relevant to our organizational mission, and sharing our solutions.

Scope

• https://gratipay.news/
• social media:
  • https://twitter.com/Gratipay
  • https://www.facebook.com/Gratipay
• Events
• repos:
  • https://github.com/gratipay/guide
  • https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay-or-bountysource.guide
  • https://github.com/gratipay/blog.gittip.com

Priorities

• article for OpenSource.com (submit article to OpenSource.com #551)—looking to publish on May 10 or 12
• OuiShare Fest (go to OuiShare Fest 2016 #314 )—May 18-21
• event in Lille (Changaco and whit537 finally meet? #464)—May 23
• PyCon (go to PyCon 2016! #557)
• PyOhio (go to PyOhio 2016 #574)—CFP is due May 15
• Code & Supply (speak at Code & Supply #556)
• Abstractions (send @whit537 to Abstractions #534)

[chadwhitacre]

I have no idea what this means, but I love it. The filename is "BIZ_integralintegration.png." 😳

If I ever make it to Raleigh, I'm gonna make it a point to track this down. :-)

Ranks right up there with THE BIG BRO. 😎

https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/employees-let-them-hire-themselves

#551

[chadwhitacre]

Q: Was there a moment when you saw what was being built, and it suddenly started taking off, and you thought, "Wait a sec, this actually could be something huge, not just a personal project that I'm getting nice feedback on, but an explosive development in the whole technology world?"

A: Not really. The big point for me, really, was not when it was becoming huge, it was when it was becoming little. The big point for me was not being alone, and having ten, maybe a hundred people being involved. That was a big point. Then, everything else was very gradual. Going from a hundred people to a million people is not a big deal. Well—maybe it is if you want to sell your result, then it's a huge deal, don't get me wrong. But if you're interested in the technology and you're interested in the project—the big part was getting the community. Then the community grew gradually, and there's actually not a single point where I went, like, "Wow! That just took off!" Because it took a long time, relatively.

https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linux

Reminds me of the Chris Poole quote on "How is Gratipay Different than Patreon?":

4chan has never had this explosive growth that it seems everybody these days is trying to engineer. Everybody fantasizes and fetishizes this idea of having a hit, and having something get really big really quickly, and having that hockey stick. […] Be careful what you wish for.