Awesome domain name! And as long as you include the image, it probably makes sense for new people too.
You know, the password to the camping github account was actually "littlewheels" :-) // Magnus Holm On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 15:03, Sean Busbey <s...@manvsbeard.com> wrote: > kylekyle and I have planned to use http://thelittlewheels.com/ as a > showcase for camping stuff. probably even more confusing to new > people than whywentcamping > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 13:57, Philippe Monnet <r...@monnet-usa.com> wrote: >> Thanks Magnus! I love the idea of working on the web site for 2.1. >> I am still not crazy about the web site name though - as it is not easy for >> people to remember if they don't know the connection with _why. I personally >> would have preferred rubycamping.com or something linking Camping to Ruby >> somehow. But if everyone prefers that name I am fine with that. >> >> A couple ideas for the site: >> >> Keep the home page simple with all content fitting within 1280 x 1024 >> Use a catchy design (need some help here) >> Accentuate that Camping is about Ruby (maybe also include the ruby logo >> somewhere) >> Have a brief note about the connection to _why and a link to a page >> explaining the history of Camping with further links to _why's other sites >> Encourage people to try it by capitalizing on some of Camping's strengths: >> >> Fast to learn - requires only basic Ruby skills >> Much simpler than Rails but more structure than Sinatra/Padrino >> Lightning fast and memory efficient allowing fast and efficient sites >> Can evolve from simple file to organized directory structure >> Can layer in more features later using persistence and choice of view >> engines >> >> How about using some kind of an animated (auto advancing) slideshow to >> highlight some of the benefits? See an example at: >> http://blog.monnet-usa.com/?p=276 >> How about a page on learning with a link to the book as well as a list of >> links for other tutorials or short explanations on key topics (e.g. how to >> do migrations, how to use include/extend, how to use different view engines, >> etc.)? >> How about a page about plugins with some brief description of their intent? >> I would love for us to include _why's cartoons in some of the sub pages ;-) >> >> Who would be interested in working together on the site? >> Could we do a couple graphic mockups of the main page? How should we >> exchange them? Via the mailing list? >> I am ready and excited to help with that. I think it would be great to >> launch the site in time for _Why Day (Aug 19th)! >> >> Philippe >> >> On 6/30/2010 5:08 AM, Magnus Holm wrote: >> >> Hey campers! >> >> I think it's about time to release Camping 2.1, which features: >> >> * Support for other template engines (Haml, ERB, etc) out of the box >> * No longer depends on ActiveRecord (this was a bug) >> * Camping.options is now a Hash where you can put all sorts of >> configuration stuff >> * Camping::Server now uses Rack::Server (got rid of some code) >> * See all changes here: >> http://github.com/camping/camping/compare/2.0...master >> >> -- >> >> There's still one thing I want to improve before we release 2.1 >> though, and that is the website. Currently it only redirects to the >> RDoc, but I believe we can do better. >> >> Checkout this: http://whywentcamping.judofyr.net/ (also see the GitHub >> repo for some more information: >> http://github.com/camping/whywentcamping.com) >> >> Better? Worse? You tell me :-) >> >> Have a look at the issues I'm aware of >> (http://github.com/camping/whywentcamping.com/issues) and please add >> your own too. >> >> // Magnus Holm >> _______________________________________________ >> Camping-list mailing list >> Camping-list@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Camping-list mailing list >> Camping-list@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list >> > > > > -- > Sean > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > Camping-list@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list > _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
