Re: What now?
Hi Philippe I am one of those Camping friends (although I've been too busy with clients just lately to do much). Although I just posted links to your Camping 'add-ons' to the wiki :-) I agree about Sinatra - from curiosity I've even dabbled with it myself (shame!), although it is nice that Camping still has a small community feel. Perhaps some _why-type cartoons (along the lines you suggest) might be the right way forward for a 'This is Camping' website. Or just keep things clean and minimal. As for content, that was covered in another post to the list some time ago, as was a domain name. Magnus has the substance (tutorial, examples, etc.) and a nice CSS style for the blog example. Maybe start with a developed version of the Camping blog on Heroku (free) so we can each add Camping-related posts to keep things fresh? It's just making enough time to put it all together... I'd be happy to chip in, but what's the best way to build a whole site that uses Camping - a collection of apps and generated static pages? I once used Camping 1.5 (running as CGI) as an easy way to make a simple multipage wireframe mockup, but... Dave I was wondering how we can help with next steps? I keep seeing all the attention going to the Sinatra framework (and Rails of course) and would love to help more with promoting Camping. It would be great if one of our web designer / Camping friend could help create a catchy visual for the site. How about a night time view of a camp fire with a tent and maybe a small projector with a big silver screen where we could display rotating content / slides? Any other crazy concepts? Philippe ___ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
Re: Are there existing sitemap generators for Camping?
For now, added to the wiki under 'Miscellaneous Camping links'. Be good to find a few more 'made with Camping' sites/apps to add to the list - anyone want to put up their app? - Dave Everitt Magnus Holm wrote: Cool. We'll have to find a place on the wiki for these things :-) Philippe Monnet wrote: I wrote a simple (and crude) Google sitemap generator - see http://gist.github.com/330973 ___ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
Re: What now?
I was wondering how we can help with next steps? I keep seeing all the attention going to the Sinatra framework (and Rails of course) and would love to help more with promoting Camping. It would be great if one of our web designer / Camping friend could help create a catchy visual for the site. How about a night time view of a camp fire with a tent and maybe a small projector with a big silver screen where we could display rotating content / slides? Any other crazy concepts? Philippe On 10/18/2009 6:03 PM, Dave Everitt wrote: Below: collated results for a Camping domain name, have added my prefs and all others. Perhaps we can increment/decrement these scores from now on to get a final result ;-) [Philippe]: I feel that having the word Ruby in the name would be good for SEO and more likely to incite people not familiar with Camping to click on a link due to the association with Ruby. agreed. 'rubycamping.com' is available (as are the others, I *think*). Also agree with the need to distinguish Camping from RoR, so not so sure about 'rubyoncamping.com'? For SEO it's common to have > 1 domain, with a primary one, so (say) 'ruby-camping-framework.com/org/net' might be a good buy to forward to the chosen domain. Since this isn't a commercial site, I'd prefer .org/.net with the .com variation sitting there quietly - opinions? rubycamping.com [9 +1] campingframework.com [2 +1] rubyoncamping.com [10 -1] whywentcamping.com [1 +2] (cute but I wonder if people may skip the site link by thinking it has nothing to do with Ruby) Dave PS I have to sleep now. ___ 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
