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Question: Promotion of VB.NET-related projects #395

Open zspitz opened 5 years ago

zspitz commented 5 years ago

Where is a good place to promote VB.NET-related projects?

For example, I've just published the first release of a debugging visualizer for expression trees, that can render the expression tree as VB.NET pseudo-code. screenshot

I don't think it appropriate to promote here; AFAICT the issues in this repo should be focused on improvements to VB.NET, and perhaps the surrounding ecosystem. So where is a good place to do so?

pricerc commented 5 years ago

A really good question.

A place to discuss VB coding, as opposed to the VB language might also be a good place for some of the discussions that have been happening here, that are arguably off-topic.

ocdtrekkie commented 5 years ago

It'd be nice if r/visualbasic on Reddit was used by more than just people seeking homework help.

To some degree though, I think you should share places other developers share their projects, like Hacker News. People don't say "where do I promote JavaScript projects?", they promote them in language-agnostic places. Perhaps if we weren't just sharing VB .NET projects with other VB .NET enthusiasts, people would think more positively about VB.

VBAndCs commented 5 years ago

Maybe you can write an article about your work and contact Visual Studio Magazin: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/pages/contact-us.aspx

KathleenDollard commented 5 years ago

@zspitz Let's get this on the VB Team Blog!

Since this is an OSS project, you can talk about both what it does/why use it and how you built it. Feel free to Twitter DM me @kathleendollard or email at kdollard at Microsoft dot com.

Getting it into one of the magazines would also be great.

DualBrain commented 5 years ago

For general discussions (including announcing cool projects), I'd suggest joining us over on https://gitter.im/VB-NET. The "Community" channel seems to be where most people end up; however, there are other channels for more specific (focused) conversations. As for projects, if you'd like me to add it to VB section of https://gotbasic.com, please let me know. (It's also possible for "anyone" to add to https://gotbasic.com as it is currently a GitHub pages site... so just make a pull request.)