# StackOverflow Open Source Ad

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [January 17, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539 "2017-01-17T10:56:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![oxinabox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oxinabox/32/206603_2.png) [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 10:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/1 "2017-01-17T10:56:18Z")

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Hi all,

Stack Overflow runs free advertising for [open-source projects](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/327559/open-source-advertising-2h-2016), to attract contributors to a project.

These run in 6 month blocks, a new one is due to start any day now.

I submitted an advert 6 months ago (on my own initiative, i.e. it is better to ask forgiveness than permission). It is fairly simple (minimalist :-D), just a composition of the logo with a github logo and the text. I think it took me an hour or so.

It is infact[the most successful opensource project advert of the period](http://meta.stackoverflow.com/ads/display/327559).  
Getting 17.46 clicks per day for a total of 3,318.  
Beating Atom’s 16.02 clicks per day (3,059 total).

I think getting ~3,300 people more aware of julia, was a worth-while thing to do.

Since it is going to expire, we need a new ad (if we want to continue).  
I don’t really want to be the person to create it again.  
One of the rules of SO’s adverts is that you can’t repost past adverts.  
So a new one needs to be created.  
Some else should do that.

I unfortunately, do not have access to the raw illustrator files I used to create it, due to the computer being a bit dead (and me procrastinating on repairing it).  
But it is not like it was complex.

The only suggestion I have is that it might be worth considering how to draw contributors to the ecosystem as a whole (esp packages), rather than to the language/Base.

I suggest someone should just do one.  
And not over think it.  
And not bikeshed over it here.

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/2 "2017-01-17T11:21:37Z")

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Good stuff. I used to do community ads for [Mathematica](http://meta.mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1165/community-promotion-ads-2014)’s stack exchange. Looks like the resolution has increased since then…

The main thing is I think to get people to upvote them so that they get included? Or has that changed?

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**Author:** ![oxinabox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oxinabox/32/206603_2.png) [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2017, 11:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/3 "2017-01-17T11:23:48Z")

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> The main thing is I think to get people to upvote them so that they get included?

It only needs 6 upvotes to be included.  
We got that in \<12 hours (iirc).  
It will get it trivially, unless it is aweful

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**Author:** ![JeffreySarnoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jeffreysarnoff/32/1980_2.png) [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 3:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/4 "2017-01-18T03:00:48Z")

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![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/3/f/3fb3b6ed8407fe60b05341d94fe29f72315b12b1.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:09am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/5 "2017-01-18T08:09:18Z")

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I like it, but I think it would be even better to catch that feeling without implicitly criticizing other programming languages. What about “Intuitive. Fast. Open. Join the revolution” or something like that. (EDIT happy to set up the text and image if you like it).

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**Author:** ![felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/felix/32/604_2.png) [@felix](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/felix)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/6 "2017-01-18T08:16:05Z")

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![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/5/d580502c376327522aa7dfa87bad94c939eb59be.png)

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**Author:** ![felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/felix/32/604_2.png) [@felix](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/felix)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/7 "2017-01-18T08:16:25Z")

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![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/f/5/f5c54b5e40a9945bdd1e74c343eadb5ab9d30c09.png)

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**Author:** ![JeffreySarnoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jeffreysarnoff/32/1980_2.png) [@JeffreySarnoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/JeffreySarnoff)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/8 "2017-01-18T13:42:29Z")

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_implicit?_ (That’s why I put it here, not on stackoverflow).

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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/9 "2017-01-18T13:51:46Z")

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Right 😃 I think @felix should just post one of his 🙂

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**Author:** ![felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/felix/32/604_2.png) [@felix](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/felix)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/10 "2017-01-18T14:05:08Z")

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🙂 will do, let the # of hearts decide

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/11 "2017-01-18T14:17:07Z")

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Comic Sans? Doge meme? That’s two downvotes already… 🙂

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**Author:** ![oxinabox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oxinabox/32/206603_2.png) [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2017, 1:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/12 "2017-01-19T01:58:17Z")

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What page should it link to?

Linking to github is better than linking to the [julialang.org](http://julialang.org) frontpage.  
(That would be probably disallowed as soliciting contrinutor).

Better would be to link to a page that welcomes new comers.  
Suggests how to find packages they would like to contibute to etc.

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**Author:** ![felix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/felix/32/604_2.png) [@felix](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/felix)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/13 "2017-01-20T17:42:07Z")

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Good point. The expectation is to link to github. But to me that would be intimidating / it’s hard for new users to find a direction. I guess what would be good would be to have a short page in three parts:

1. sell how great Julia is (make up for details missing from the advert)
2. indicate the overall direction of the project
3. give specific points that could do with contributions

I wrote something like this here:  
[https://github.com/felixrehren/julialang.github.com/blob/fr-start/start.md](https://github.com/felixrehren/julialang.github.com/blob/fr-start/start.md)  
(@ChrisRackauckas I mentioned DiffEq.jl because of your great blog post, hope that’s ok 🙂 )

Could something like this be useful?  
(Does Julia have a public strategy/direction/goals for 1.0, or should that section in the draft be taken out?)

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**Author:** ![oxinabox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oxinabox/32/206603_2.png) [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/14 "2017-01-21T23:51:15Z")

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Looks great.  
only big change I would make would be to remove the big plot of benchmarks.  
just saying julia is fast, and linking to the benchmarks page will do,  
and it means we spend less space boasting about julia and more time telling people how they can contribute

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/15 "2017-01-27T16:17:09Z")

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Here’s my suggestion for the ad…

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/7/b/7b296d279ff6074ca2d98920f7d2a58a0ae4dfc3.png)

Code is [here](https://gist.github.com/cormullion/8880c53bcb7766f50aca6c024ea845f8); feel free to bike-shed to your heart’s content!

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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/16 "2017-01-27T17:25:23Z")

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I really like it, though I slightly prefered my own motto (‘intuitive, fast and open’) 🙂 Otherwise I think this is the best so far 😃

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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/17 "2017-01-27T21:26:25Z")

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> [@mkborregaard](#):
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> I really like it, though I slightly prefered my own motto (‘intuitive, fast and open’) 🙂

I think that “modern” is more objective than “intuitive” 😉

> [@mkborregaard](#):
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> Otherwise I think this is the best so far 😃

I second that!

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**Author:** ![oxinabox](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oxinabox/32/206603_2.png) [@oxinabox](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oxinabox)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 3:17am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/18 "2017-01-30T03:17:31Z")

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@cormullion  
I love that that is a julia advert coded in julia.

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**Author:** ![cormullion](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cormullion/32/49131_2.png) [@cormullion](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cormullion)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 11:03am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/19 "2017-01-30T11:03:57Z")

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We’re fortunate in that regard, compared with an ad for, say, a Markdown editor… 🙂

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**Author:** ![kristoffer.carlsson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kristoffer.carlsson/32/22_2.png) [@kristoffer.carlsson](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kristoffer.carlsson)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 9:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/stackoverflow-open-source-ad/1539/20 "2017-01-30T21:15:41Z")

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What does `modern` mean here? Perhaps we can think of something that is a bit more special to julia?

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