I just wanted to stop lurking and get round to pinging this list [thanks to Jeff for the prodding :)]
Great news, Gavin!
Just a little bit of background, I'm the PR chair for The Perl Foundation (TPF), and I'm trying to help both TPF and other Perl communities do better at spreading news about the good things that we do. One of my current goals is to try to find an outside PR firm to help with the distribution of press releases etc. If anybody has any recommendations, please get in touch.
My day job involves a lot of mod_perl stuff, so I reminded my boss that mod_perl makes us a lot of money so the least we could do is write something up for the "Technologie Extraordinaire" section. I also got a some feedback from him on this section, from the perspective of a marketing guy.
* Firstly, we had a little trouble finding the section. I was looking for "Success Stories" or something in the left bar.
done: http://perl.apache.org/outstanding/index.html
* Looking at the "Success Stories" page his first comment was "they're just emails!".
* They seem pretty outdated.
* It doesn't seem too professional, one for instance was from a "Smelly Belly".
Improvements are more than welcome :) 'just emails' was the best we could come up with w/o introducing a huge overhead of managing those pages, since we don't have time for doing that.
Possibly a good thing to do is remove most of these and try to focus the effort pushing big sites that use mod_perl with more marketing friendly copy. I'll pick the brains of some more colleagues next week to get some more feedback from non-Perl people.
Would it be possible to have these pages on some kind of staging wiki to make it easy for people to contribute?
the pages are autogenerated (from txt/html/pod sources). and as you said by yourself, you want the pages to look spiffy and markety, so it's probably out of question to let random people mess with those. If you want to get a commit access and work on those, it's not a problem. On the other hand the wiki scratch area could live elsewhere.
I also thought that I saw a page somewhere that listed companies that contributed money/developers to mod_perl development, but I can't seem
http://perl.apache.org/about/contributors/companies.html
to find it now. He was interested in how he would be able to sponsor efforts to increase awareness in the community, should there be a list of people/projects looking for funding somewhere?
We used to have this page, but at some point it became empty and was deleted (that was like 2-3 years ago, before the site revamp).
Also on this note, it would be nice to see some mod_perl projects submitted for the next round of TPF grants (http://www.perlfoundation.org/gc/grants/proposals.html).
Yeah, I suppose most people are unaware of this option. I guess it should appear somewhere on the perl.apache.org site and a reminider posted to the list once in a while.
Someone has mentioned reviving the weekly/monthly modperl traffic summaries. Those could include the reminder and other advocacy bits.
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