Task #2577
closed
investigate free open source project advertising on Stack Overflow
Added by Mike Saunders about 6 years ago.
Updated about 5 years ago.
Target version:
Team - Qlater
Description
In short: Stack Overflow wants to "let the programming community use our remnant ad inventory space to publicize open-source projects in need of programmer assistance."
More details: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/362773/open-source-advertising-1h-2018
It looks like we need to create a graphic, asking for contributors, and if it gets enough upvotes it goes into the advertising cycle. And it appears to be done twice a year, so it may be better to wait until the second half of 2018 to be "fresh" and get more exposure.
So this scheme was not activated for the second half of 2018, so it's impossible to take part. If it's available for the first half of 2019, it should be announced here:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/open-source-advertising
I've made a note in my calendar to look at it again in January. It's not too far off, and worth doing IMO, so let's keep this ticket open for now...
Stack Overflow has posted nothing about this yet, but for 2018 they announced it right at the end of January, so I'll keep an eye on it...
- Status changed from New to In Progress
Feedback on marketing-priv@ selected the thumbs-up image (attached), so let's go with that. However:
"You must have at least 5 reputation on Stack Overflow to answer a question on meta."
So I need to answer some other questions to get the reputation points to even post. Will find a strategy for that...
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
The graphic now has a rating of 8, more than the required threshold, so it will be served up on other Stack Overflow posts. So this worked - nothing more to do; closing now.
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