Accidentally only sent this to Perrin. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://frank.wiles.org ---------------------------------
Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:53:48 -0500 From: Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: mod_perl presence at OSCON (and other CONs) is at danger On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:43:23 -0400 Perrin Harkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 15:50, Stefan Loones wrote: > > I looked at php. Why ? Because you hear about it, and see it > > everywhere (= PR !). > > Where? Where do you see it that you are not seeing Perl represented? > Keep track, and then we'll have some targets to pursue for placing > articles. I'd be happy to gather these up for everyone and bring them all to the BOF. If you find examples of where other tech is being discussed, but not mod_perl feel free to E-mail it to me directly and I'll correlate it all. You can obviously omit websites/magazines entirely devoted to a particular technology. I don't think we'll have much luck getting much perl/mod_perl PR on www.php.net or in a Java magazine. ;) > > In my opinion mod_perl definitly needs a lot of extra PR. > > My intention was that mod_perl would be talked about in the larger > context of Perl, as the standard way to build web apps. There could > be an ad promoting web development with mod_perl, one promoting > Bioinformatics use, one promoting use in financial companies, one for > sysadmin and DBA use, etc. > > If you notice, no one talks about mod_php. Instead they talk about > PHP. That's because mod_php is just some glue code that lets you run > PHP in apache, just like mod_perl lets you run Perl. I already run > into people who know Perl and think that mod_perl is some other > language they would have to learn, and that's not good. I agree that we should work to make sure mod_perl is accurately portrayed and do our best to avoid misinterpretations that mod_perl is a separate language, etc. --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://frank.wiles.org --------------------------------- --------------------------------- Frank Wiles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://frank.wiles.org --------------------------------- -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html