I'd recomend creating link from the newbie pages to a page about the developer community from the newbie pages. The basic flow for checking out a new language is to first check the philosophy of the language, why it was written and what it is designed to do, then check out a few simple examples to see how well it reads. If those two points are satisfactory to me then I'll look for a developer community that is active and helpful or a good reference guide for the language. REBOL has the best developer community that I've found but it is difficult to find. I'd like to see a page created about the REBOL developer community explaining that most of the activity happens on the REBOL3 AltME world (including instruction for how to get an account on the world) and that there are a couple of REBOL Mailing lists, this one and the Google group in particular for those who don't want to install another IM application.
Enjoy!! ~~Ammon ;~> On 7/7/05, Premshree Pillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >=20 > On 7/7/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The way I view it is: if the userbase is not constantly growing > > then there is something wrong with the approach or wrong with the >=20 > I'd take my bet on the approach. >=20 > > I think it is very important. But, I also think that we have a long > > way to go to improve our intro examples and tutorials. That was one > > of the main reasons I created the cookbook a few years ago. But, > > actually the cookbook is not enough. >=20 > Okay, here's a thought: honestly, I don't use REBOL *that* often (I > use Ruby mostly), but what I *absolutely* love about REBOL is the ease > with which you can create GUIs. (FYI: I'm more of a library person, > than a GUI geek.) How about O'reilly putting together a book on REBOL? > Maybe something like the Python Cookbook? We could have examples of > creating APIs, building GUIs using them, etc.? >=20 > > I know a lot of people who use REBOL and love it. But, I also know >=20 > I do. Really. And you know it. :-) >=20 > > So, what do you think is the #1 thing we can do to get greater > > stickyness? I estimate we get more than 15,000 visitors checking > > out "newbie" pages each month. How can we get more of them learning > > and using REBOL? >=20 > More books? More confs? >=20 > Premshree >=20 > --=3D20 > http://www.livejournal.com/users/premshree/ > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. >=20 > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
