I believe the How-to's were excellent. I liked it when we looked forward to new ones. Now with the amount of experitise from the community that you had help with on 1.3 maybe they can contribute some new how-tos in respects such as AGG and draw.
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:21 AM Subject: [REBOL] REBOL Tutorials > Prompted by my last comment, I just wanted to add something... > > I agree that REBOL tutorials are very important to "visitors" who > are checking out the language for the first time. > > 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 > product (language). > > This is sometimes called "stickyness". People come visit the site, > check out a few pages, but then... do they stick? Do they download > it? Do they give it a fair chance? > > 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. > > I know a lot of people who use REBOL and love it. But, I also know > too many people who have tried it and not "stuck". I wish I knew > more about why... and also what we could do to improve the stick > factor. > > 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? > > -Carl Sassenrath > REBOL Technologies > -- > To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to > lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.10/43 - Release Date: 7/6/2005 > > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
