At 14:04 28/04/2001 -0400, Drew Taylor wrote:
>I remember seeing some proofs done by Robin Berjon (I'm sure I'm not
>spelling it right!) long ago that I really liked. But they were never used
>AFAIK. I also registered modperlnews.(org|com) a while back with the
>intention of doing something useful with them, but I have not yet done
>anything. I also have some time on my hands while I'm searching for a new
>job, so I am volunteering my time if it's needed or wanted. I'll bet that
>Template Toolkit (thanks Andy!) would work wonderfully for putting a new
>face on the site. If the powers that be are interested, I am available to
>help.
You got the spelling right, and if you hadn't I don't think it would have
been a big deal at all. In fact, my (geek) friends call me Berfon since
that is how my name appeared in the first Perl Poetry contest that I was
credited in ;-)
The proofs never made it to the perl.apache.org site for many reasons, one
of which being that that's when I changed continents again, another being
that there were other people working on it too, and there are probably many
other reasons at hand too. Anyway, the proof eventually got used for
take23.org which I'm very happy about (well, it was just a proof and there
are quite a few things I'd like to change about it, but that's another story).
I also helped with axkit.org. I don't think it's professional level as is,
but it's probably better than "programmer style" and until I or someone
else has the time to make it better I hope it does the job ok.
I'm not going to promise to do things I don't have the time to do, a few
years spent in the Open Source community have taught me (the hard way)
about that. However, now that my company has grown (and keeps growing
despite rumours of a slump -- modperl + xml definitely help) and that I
have internal resources other than myself I can offer to create a new proof.
The limits of what I can offer are a design proof + templates (in xslt). I
don't have enough people yet to take over the maintenance of the whole
site. If there's a way we can have some XML publishing on that server then
it would be done in little time (note that xml means pod too, thanks to
pod2xml). If someone can solve the publishing side of the issue, then I can
do the design/templating side.
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