Re: *.perl.org facelift
- Original Message > From: Andy Wardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I put a few ideas together for a *.perl.org facelift. > > http://wardley.org/use.perl.org/test.html > > At the moment it's just a stick in the ground. It's probably the > wrong kind of stick and not in the right place, but it's a start. Out of curiosity, have you spoken with pudge about this? He hasn't seemed interested, but I could be wrong. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
RE: *.perl.org facelift
>I put a few ideas together for a *.perl.org facelift. > > http://wardley.org/use.perl.org/test.html > >At the moment it's just a stick in the ground. It's probably the >wrong kind of stick and not in the right place, but it's a start. > >Pass it on. > >A This looks brilliant. A lot of Perl sites certainly could do with a face lift. I think it'd go a long way towards making Perl look more alive :) PerlBloke
Perl is Alive!
and kicking! Perl 5 doesn't need to be hip and new (like some people seem to think python and ruby are), Perl 6 will fix that Perl 5 is itself growing and evolving, bridging the gap to Perl 6 Parrot v1 is soon to hit the shelves Rakudo should be soon to follow The dusty old conservatives of the Perl community will slowly accept Perl 6 because it is a better *Perl* LPM seems to be slowly becoming more friendly to new comers (even Matt Trout was talking at LPW about new people getting involved and getting friendly support from the community) Newer groups like Italy, B&BPM, etc, seem to be going from strength to strength A lot of new (and old) ideas are coming up... Some people will make attempts to take them forward... After all once it's started, you never know who'll help or finish it... Perl itself doesn't need to make changes to attract new programmers. Perl is great, that's why we are all here :) All we need is to make new people try coding Perl. Perl does the rest. Looking to hard at other languages and trying to pull programmers from them is futile (unless you are talking about ones like VB). The future is with the youth, and the solution is simple, as Tony said "Education, Education, Education!". Perlbloke
Re: *.perl.org facelift
> > This looks brilliant. A lot of Perl sites certainly could do with a face > lift. I think it'd go a long way towards making Perl look more alive :) > I especially like "the Onion" logo - Perl's official trademark never looked better. ;-) Nige
Re: *.perl.org facelift
Ovid wrote: Out of curiosity, have you spoken with pudge about this? > He hasn't seemed interested, but I could be wrong. I've (just) pinged him a heads-up in case he hasn't seen it, but his other comments in the thread seem to suggest that it's not his highest priority right now. But that's cool. It was really only supposed to be a bit of tentative dabbling to see where inspiration might strike. A couple of people have already expressed an interest in dabbling with it further so it might go somewhere yet. I was also mindful of Andy's comment: However, I'd strongly suggest that you come up with actual prototypes of what you want to change to BEFORE contacting them. Lord knows they've had enough people bluster in and say "I want to change perl.org's front page!" with no results. With that in mind, I thought it better to sketch out some ideas first before putting my head above the parapet. I suspect that it'll end up being a bikeshed-painting project, but we live in hope. A
