kylekyle and I have planned to use http://thelittlewheels.com/ as a showcase for camping stuff. probably even more confusing to new people than whywentcamping
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 13:57, Philippe Monnet <r...@monnet-usa.com> wrote: > Thanks Magnus! I love the idea of working on the web site for 2.1. > I am still not crazy about the web site name though - as it is not easy for > people to remember if they don't know the connection with _why. I personally > would have preferred rubycamping.com or something linking Camping to Ruby > somehow. But if everyone prefers that name I am fine with that. > > A couple ideas for the site: > > Keep the home page simple with all content fitting within 1280 x 1024 > Use a catchy design (need some help here) > Accentuate that Camping is about Ruby (maybe also include the ruby logo > somewhere) > Have a brief note about the connection to _why and a link to a page > explaining the history of Camping with further links to _why's other sites > Encourage people to try it by capitalizing on some of Camping's strengths: > > Fast to learn - requires only basic Ruby skills > Much simpler than Rails but more structure than Sinatra/Padrino > Lightning fast and memory efficient allowing fast and efficient sites > Can evolve from simple file to organized directory structure > Can layer in more features later using persistence and choice of view > engines > > How about using some kind of an animated (auto advancing) slideshow to > highlight some of the benefits? See an example at: > http://blog.monnet-usa.com/?p=276 > How about a page on learning with a link to the book as well as a list of > links for other tutorials or short explanations on key topics (e.g. how to > do migrations, how to use include/extend, how to use different view engines, > etc.)? > How about a page about plugins with some brief description of their intent? > I would love for us to include _why's cartoons in some of the sub pages ;-) > > Who would be interested in working together on the site? > Could we do a couple graphic mockups of the main page? How should we > exchange them? Via the mailing list? > I am ready and excited to help with that. I think it would be great to > launch the site in time for _Why Day (Aug 19th)! > > Philippe > > On 6/30/2010 5:08 AM, Magnus Holm wrote: > > Hey campers! > > I think it's about time to release Camping 2.1, which features: > > * Support for other template engines (Haml, ERB, etc) out of the box > * No longer depends on ActiveRecord (this was a bug) > * Camping.options is now a Hash where you can put all sorts of > configuration stuff > * Camping::Server now uses Rack::Server (got rid of some code) > * See all changes here: > http://github.com/camping/camping/compare/2.0...master > > -- > > There's still one thing I want to improve before we release 2.1 > though, and that is the website. Currently it only redirects to the > RDoc, but I believe we can do better. > > Checkout this: http://whywentcamping.judofyr.net/ (also see the GitHub > repo for some more information: > http://github.com/camping/whywentcamping.com) > > Better? Worse? You tell me :-) > > Have a look at the issues I'm aware of > (http://github.com/camping/whywentcamping.com/issues) and please add > your own too. > > // Magnus Holm > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Sean _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list Camping-list@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
