Inform Open Data Communities for OD stackexchange

Question

Lately, I had several discussions with members from various Open Data communities and I realized that only a few of them are aware for Open Data StackExchange site. I was wondering if there is something we do wrong or there isn't a proper advertisement.

I haven't seen something similar to other meta sites, but I am thinking to create a list with all the possible "clients" of this website and start contacting with them with e-mails and let them know about the website.

Is this something that StackExchange encourage or not?

I will add the list as a wiki answer and please, feel free to update it without asking :)

Answer 1

• Open Data Innovation
• freeourdata.org.uk
• The Open Institute
• Open Data Institute
• Open Knowledge Foundation
• Open Corporates
• Socrata
• r/Datasets, r/OpenData

Answer 2

Advertising is definitely needed.

I am very active at Software Recommendations, and there we do a lot of advertising (or rather we did, now the site has become popular and does not need it anymore).

Without advertising we won't attract the people we target.