[Open-graphics] Re: OGD1 pricing

[Timothy Miller]

On 2/28/06, J.O. Aho <trizt at iname.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
> > It's too bad I can't hire anyone to do marketing.  Fortunately, lots
> > of OGP enthusiasts are college students.  I'm certainly going to try
> > to get OSU to buy boards.
> >
> > That's one market.  The other is to get advertizing into the right
> > catalogs and magazines.  I can talk to the EE prof about where they
> > find their stuff.  If we can manage to sell a few boards, we can use
> > that money to buy ads and hopefully sell more.
>
> What about trying to get magazines to write about the project?
> Not sure how to catch their interest for the project, but maybe just write
> to some linux magazines and ask if they are interested to write about the
> project.


Now that you mention it, there is a Linux magazine whose editor had
contacted me.  I'll send him an email.

This still isn't the same magazines as the ones that most of our
customers would read, but it's better than nothing.