Release plan

[ogallagher]

Now that I’m getting close to having a decent initial set of textiles included in the site, I’ll need a plan for effectively sharing the site to get people to add content and use the puzzles. Below is an agenda to that effect, in chronological order.

• finish initial content offering (~10 puzzles) Initial content 10 textiles #67
• finish About page About page #41
• fix outstanding bugs
  • account activation Account activation is buggy #77
  • disabled textile on login Login disables textile interaction #80
  • fonts Font sizes #74
  • doubled fragments Login doubles fragments #72
• add links to toasts Add links to toasts #78
• create launch message (the logo, the summary and mission, explanation of what doesn’t work (as in, email subscription))
• publish launch message to
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
• send private launch messages to
  • known artist friends (admin/people/authors.txt)
• create pitch (as in, to explain the site for a possible interview)
• send pitch to
  • creative commons org
  • Every Writer
  • Electric Lit
  • The Art Newspaper
  • Art in America, ARTnews
• send pitch to (aborted)
  • Timeout
  • Minds Journal
  • Google Cultural Institute (focuses on digitizing and publishing art)
• artistic publishing sites
  • Pinterest
  • Deviant Art
  • 
• create wikipedia page (eventually... it will take a while to have external references for citations. I might also want to have someone else write it, providing them information as required?)

[ogallagher]

The initial content offering is now complete! I’ll be finalizing the About page and writing the launch announcement and interview pitch.

Once the About page, announcement, and pitch are ready, I’ll share to all the outlets listed above. I’ll be logging progress on the announcement and pitch in issue #82.

[ogallagher]

The artist private message, launch announcement, and interview/news pitch are ready. Release is imminent!

[ogallagher]

I’ll be creating a tutorial video (#86) to attempt to properly explain how to play a textile.

[ogallagher]

• The pitch emails should be resent; I got no responses and I probably picked the worst time to send them (Labor Day weekend)
• The llama textile and video can be announced in another public message