Hello, I thought I'd take a moment to share some success that we've had (and some less than successful efforts we've made), and ask what other methods people have used and how they've worked. We started french and german language mailing lists for Koha tranlsation/development effort in August. The french list has taken off (growing to ~30 subscribers with ~25 posts/week); the german list has not (~4 subscribers, ~2 messages/week). We've also had on again/off again interest in a couple of other languages. I think that the keys to the french language success have been: translating publicity -- my bi-weekly newsletter is being translated into french and distributed by members of the mailing list. getting the word out -- some of the french speaking folk are actively talking up Koha within their milieu working together -- I wish I could read french ... I see several threads of discussion running on the list. It certainly looks like they're working together to solve problems. The Koha project has also been growing as well. As with the french group, I think the key has been building a community. My biggest role as Kaitiaki has been trying to get in front of people. So far, we've been fairly successful in parlaying Press Releases and my newsletter into mentions on blogs, bigger articles in on-line magazines (LinuxPlanet, Gnu-Friends, and Biblio-Tech), and interest from people who'd not seen koha before. We're hoping to make a succesful jump into conferences, expos, and users group presentations over the next 3-6 months. Which of these things have you been using? How have they worked for you? What other methods have you been using that I've missed? Is there a way that we can share the fruits of these efforts? I'd certainly be happy to use Koha announcements to shine some light on MARC::Record, or other OSS4Lib efforts. I'd hope that other projects would be willing to cooperate as well. What do you think? -pate Pat Eyler Kaitiaki/manager migrant Linux sys admin the Koha project ruby, shell, and perl geek http://www.koha.org http://pate.eylerfamily.org