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Community Managemet & Creation

Ideas

Here are few ideas for stirring up interest in our project.

  • Post to any mailing lists or forums where an announcement of our project would be on-topic.
  • Write a post for our company blog/newsletter.
  • If we have a personal blog, blog about our project.
  • Advertising upcoming events.
  • Live streaming of content or talks.
  • Speak at conferences about your project.

Tools

Following are several tools and services to telling the world Boken is live:

  • Twitter. Have in mind that this can be extremely time consuming.
  • Discourse. Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Can be used as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room and more. Can be self-hosted but also offer free hosting for Open Source projects (based in minimum requirements).
  • Discord. Discord is a voice, video and text communication service to communicate with your community. If you meet some acceptance criteria (too soon for Boken at this moment) your project could be included in an public list of Open Source projects. Some alternatives to discord are Rocket.Chat and Gitter. The latter has also a curated list of other communities where we can participate to let Boken be known through them (e.g. Swift list).
  • Google Groups. Although it looks a little bit abandoned it is still used as mailing list for a lot of communities.

Participate

Here are some places where we can participate and showcase our project.

Tech related:

  • DEV DEV Community is a place where coders share, stay up-to-date and grow their careers.
  • Apple Developer Forums Here we can find answers, ask questions, and share comments on a variety of development topics with fellow developers and Apple engineers.
  • Swift Forums At Swift community we can find a Community Showcase category specially dedicated to allow members of the Swift community to announce things that may be of broad interest to other Swift programmers.
  • Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow's public platform is used by nearly everyone who codes to learn, share their knowledge and collaborate. Here we have questions tagged for 'ios'.
  • Reddit. The Swift Programming Language has a dedicated channel on Reddit where we can participate on interesting topics (e.g. What’s everyone working on this month? (May 2021))

Demo (Visual novel and game topics) related:

  • Fuwanovel Fuwanovel mission is to "Make Visual Novels Popular in the West", by providing a helpful and friendly internet community for visual novel players, supporting and promoting the work of VN devs and fan translation groups and Empowering community members to accomplish the same. There are a lot of interesting talks we could engage in (e.g. Visual Novel Talk, So you want to create a Visual Novel...)
  • Reddit Visual Novels. As expected, there is also a reddit channel for Visual Novels stuff.
  • Lemma Soft Forums. As they claim they have been supporting creators of visual novels and story-based games since 2003, and their forums still seems to be very active. They also have a list of the newest game relases announced on their forums so we can try to include Boken on it.

Generic:

  • The Visual Novel Database is an online database, wiki and Internet forum for visual novels. As of 2019, the vndb had catalogued a total of 24,000 visual novels, and its forum had reached 14,300 users. It is built as a wiki, meaning that anyone can freely add and contribute information to the database.