{"id":546,"date":"2010-12-23T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T01:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/?p=546"},"modified":"2010-12-28T22:48:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T02:48:34","slug":"promoting-sofa-statistics-in-the-mainstream-any-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/promoting-sofa-statistics-in-the-mainstream-any-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting SOFA Statistics in the mainstream &#8211; any ideas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_549\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/linux_journal_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/linux_journal_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Linux Journal review of SOFA Statistics\" title=\"Linux Journal review of SOFA Statistics\" width=\"125\" height=\"167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-549\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linux Journal review of SOFA Statistics<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Version 1.0 of SOFA Statistics is about to be released. This is a big opportunity to introduce SOFA Statistics to a much wider audience.<\/p>\n<p>SOFA Statistics is already receiving positive attention in the open source and Linux community.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/\">Linux Journal<\/a>, for example, recently reviewed SOFA Statistics and ended the piece with &#8220;My hope is that this program becomes an adopted industry standard of sorts, mentioned in everyday conversation by organization workers the world over &#8230;&#8221; (Linux Journal Jan 2011, Issue 201, pp.40-41).  This is fantastic support for the project, and SOFA was also fortunate enough to get on the cover of the Ubuntu magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcirclemagazine.org\/issue-40\/\">Full Circle Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_551\" style=\"width: 434px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/full_circle_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/full_circle_cover.jpg\" alt=\"SOFA Statistics in Full Circle Magazine\" title=\"SOFA Statistics in Full Circle Magazine\" width=\"424\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/full_circle_cover.jpg 424w, http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/full_circle_cover-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOFA Statistics in Full Circle Magazine<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The challenge is to get into the wider IT press and beyond so that people looking for a stats\/reporting package automatically include SOFA Statistics as one of their options.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any suggestions?  We welcome comments on this topic.  A version 1.0 release is an opportunity that shouldn&#8217;t be missed. You can either post a message or email me at grant@sofastatistics.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Version 1.0 of SOFA Statistics is about to be released. This is a big opportunity to introduce SOFA Statistics to a much wider audience. SOFA Statistics is already receiving positive attention in the open source and Linux community. Linux Journal, for example, recently reviewed SOFA Statistics and ended the piece with &#8220;My hope is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sofastatistics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}