bluemoon wrote:
Isaac Newton once said it's a waste of effort to explain his mathematics to one that can't even evaluate the simplest equations.
You just have the wrong target to talk to.
Agreed.
This world consists of 6 types of target audience:
1) Those who don't know and don't want to know. (Most common)
2) Those who don't know but want to know
3) Those who don't know but claim to know (Dangerous)
4) Those who know
5) Those who know but don't claim to know
6) Those who know but don't know it completely. (Dangerous)
Target 1) for most of us is unachievable, you can't tell a normal person (who uses MS Word to write his/her documents, MS Excel for their spreadsheets containing their data, browses email with Chrome) about how awesome your scheduler or your new VGA Driver is, I have had such experiences myself where people simply nod their heads and walk away.
Target 2) is achievable, this includes people like hobbyists (who play with Arduino boards etc.), or people who are decent in computers (maybe shell script coders etc.), may get interested into any one of our OS Projects. The neat way of attracting such people is by providing documentation, having a nice website, a small place for discussions and that should be enough to get the started.
Target 3) is the most annoying, and that's where I fail. Target 3) doesn't really know anything but will make you feel that he/she is the most experienced in a specific field. Has the potential of converting itself to a "TROLL".
Target 4) & 5). Welcome to OSDev.org
Target 6) Same as target 2) except that you may expect something sensible.
By "know" I mean knowledge about Operating System Development
Conclusion? bluemoon came with a perfect one.
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Anyway, for promotion purpose, you would need some "expert" to make statement clarifying that is not a Linux clone. Most people just can't read facts but blogs.
For our OSes to be on blogs, it must have something interesting, easy example is SirCmpWn's(idk the spelling) KnightOS, that would be something what normal people would find interesting, since it can run on something as small as a calculator. (You usually don't expect your calculator to do stuff like managing your files, displaying 3D cubes, multitasking.....)