Czajkowski

I’ve spent the last week looking for different resources to look at to promote events here in Ireland. Looking at news articles on line and printed IT magazines that are meant to promote all products, events, applications and OSs here in Ireland, it was very frustrating to see how none of them even glance at Open Source.

I’ve been very lucky in the past with meeting different people at events here in Dublin or via twitter to get events promoted. Marie Boran of Siliconrepublic has written articles on the Ubuntu-ie LoCo and about the last ossbarcamp.  Niall Larkin asked to do a podcast on Open Source,  Joe Drumgoole promoted my last event on the George Hook show and Damien Mulley has done blog posts.

While all this help is great and is very much appreciated, it’s still a case of me going to to journalists and saying “you really should look at this, readers would like to hear about it” and then it’s a case of they may or may not do it, and in the past it’s most likely not been followed up on. I understand time is limited but I don’t see journalists or writers attending Open Source events, but they do seem to be at others.

It’s frustrating when you see the amount of other articles on other Operating Systems or launches that are written or events that are covered and if they were truly trying to inform the public, gain readership they should consider there are other people out there who have other interests and start covering those areas also.  Yes, I can always look at a specific targeted magazine like linux magazine, but I want an Irish one also.

So with a geeknic, global jam, software freedom day and a release party all ahead of me I shall be looking for some coverage of these events, lets see how I get on.