From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: converting people to Emacs and org-mode
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:51:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7401FF63-B5F4-46AF-BD35-9717130FADBB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip3wjdlw.fsf@gmail.com>
On 9 apr. 2013, at 10:46, Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> 42 147 <aeuster@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> This might be considered off-topic.
>
> Maybe not? I know of a fantastic Lisp dialect and
> web/database programming-environment out there
>
> ,------------------------------------
> | PicoLisp
> | http://picolisp.com/5000/!wiki?home
> `------------------------------------
>
> that suffers exactly from the rather low conversion rate of people to
> it, which is kind of hard to explain given its quality.
>
> But maybe Paul Graham is right in
> http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html, at least with regards to
> programming languages:
>
> ,-------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | A friend of mine once told an eminent operating systems expert that he
> | wanted to design a really good programming language. The expert told him
> | that it would be a waste of time, that programming languages don't
> | become popular or unpopular based on their merits, and so no matter how
> | good his language was, no one would use it. At least, that was what had
> | happened to the language he had designed.
> `-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And just like I try to spell the word about amazing PicoLisp with this
> email, I wrote an Org-mode article in the student magazine of my former
> German distance university with the title
>
> ,------------------------------------------------------
> | Self-organization with Org-mode for distance students
> `------------------------------------------------------
I would be interested to read this article. Can you make it available?
- Carsten
>
> (in German)
>
> Its in
>
> ,-------------------------------------------
> | "SprachRohr"-Ausgabe 04/2012 FernUni Hagen
> `-------------------------------------------
>
> and the cover can be seen here:
> http://www.fernstudis.de/node/1203
>
> unfortunately only the cover, since download is restricted to
> immatriculated students, but I reached some 50-60k readers with this
> article and recieved very positive feedback, I cite from an anonymous
> fellow distance student:
>
> ,----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | [...] ich gehöre normalerweise nicht zu den Leserbriefschreibern, aber hier
> | muss ich einfach mal ein ganz großes Lob loswerden: Vielen Dank für den
> | Artikel über Emacs Org-Mode - der erste Artikel [...] der mich wirklich
> | weiterbringt und ganz sehr zum "Weiterforschen" anregt. Org-Mode scheint
> | genau das Werkzeug zu sein, nach dem ich lange gesucht habe.
> `----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> (in English more or less: "normally I don't write reader comments, but
> Org-mode seems exactly the tool I was looking for and I feel very
> motivated to learn more about it after reading your article")
>
> So maybe there are ways to reach more people with less effort than in
> one-to-one conversion talks? Although, even with 50k readers, I will of
> course never know if I really achieved a single conversion.
>
> --
> cheers,
> Thorsten
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-09 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-09 8:10 converting people to Emacs and org-mode 42 147
2013-04-09 8:29 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-04-09 8:47 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-13 8:16 ` Karl Voit
2013-04-09 8:46 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-09 8:51 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2013-04-09 10:21 ` Moritz Ulrich
2013-04-09 10:30 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-09 11:05 ` Torsten Wagner
2013-04-22 14:26 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-22 15:20 ` Loyall, David
2013-04-22 17:11 ` Bastien
2013-04-22 19:35 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-22 20:03 ` John Hendy
2013-04-23 5:19 ` Achim Gratz
2013-04-23 6:38 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2013-04-22 21:50 ` Samuel Wales
2013-04-23 7:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-23 9:01 ` OT: Emacs screen colors (was: converting people to Emacs and org-mode) Karl Voit
2013-04-23 9:28 ` converting people to Emacs and org-mode Eric S Fraga
2013-04-23 9:37 ` Jude DaShiell
2013-04-23 9:48 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-04-09 11:40 ` Bastien
2013-04-09 8:48 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-04-09 9:50 ` Bastien
2013-04-09 10:03 ` Russell Adams
2013-04-09 12:27 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-04-09 15:31 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2013-04-09 16:28 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-04-12 22:17 ` Eric Schulte
2013-04-09 18:33 ` Loyall, David
2013-04-09 18:42 ` Chris Gray
2013-04-09 14:42 ` Gunnar Wolf
2013-04-09 21:03 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-09 20:59 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-04-09 22:26 ` John Hendy
2013-04-10 12:03 ` Doug Lewan
2013-04-13 8:43 ` Karl Voit
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-09 23:59 42 147
2013-04-10 7:37 ` Bastien
2013-04-10 10:01 ` Suvayu Ali
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