[tahoe-dev] help wanted: let's announce v0.7.0 to a slightly wider audience

[zooko]

Folks:

For the last seven months, we've announced releases of Tahoe to only  
a few small audiences -- mostly just the p2p-hackers mailing list [1]  
and lwn.net [2] (see The Parade of Release Notes [3]).  Combining  
these two communities, I guess that between a hundred and a couple  
thousand people read each release announcement.

For this release [4], we have fully decentralized files and  
directories (unlike the previous release in which files were  
decentralized and fault-tolerant but directories were not).

I would like to send the release announcement to a few more people.   
I don't want a really wide audience, such as a slashdot headline,  
which would attract the attention of perhaps a hundred thousand  
people.  I want just a few hundred people who haven't previously  
heard of the existence of Tahoe, who are particularly interested in  
open source, secure, decentralized filesystems, and who are willing  
to build from source instead of expecting precompiled binary packages.

There are two things that you can do to help:

1.  Read our documentation, especially the "introductory" or "top- 
level overview" documentation from the perspective of someone who has  
never heard of Tahoe before, and who might be completely unfamiliar  
with some of our commonplaces, such as Python.

2.  Suggest to me a mailing list or community of people who would be  
interested in learning about the existence of Tahoe.

Thanks!

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
[2] http://lwn.net
[3] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/Doc
[4] http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/roadmap