Morten Matras <morten.mat...@...> writes: > Great. > > I think we're working towards a concept here. > > Anything else we should be doing: > > 1) Blogs for everybody that wants to write > 2) New front page > 3) Documentation remaining in the wiki for now
Morten, I'd be thrilled to work with you to help define the site structure and come up with a new approach to present and market Stripes if you're open to my input. I've been eagerly following this thread and am glad to see that it came about and thrilled at the number of people that have contributed to it. I'd be interested in taking a part-ownership role in helping to develop a new website for Stripes with the purpose of giving it a new marketing face, attracting more users/developers, and making its use (and its extensions use) more wide-spread. I'd ask though that before we go down this path and risk losing the momentum behind the parent thread, that we: pre-a) Get Ben's OK and his thoughts. He's been one of the primary contributors to Stripes and I wouldn't want to move forward without his blessing. a) Take the discussion of how this is going to be built off-line (a separate list--Google Group?--to not cloud the Stripes mail list with discussions on building a new site) b) Ask those interested in the growth of Stripes to subscribe to that group to help incubate ideas and brainstorm c) Get commitments from folks--there's already some in this list--that they'll regularly contribute to Stripes--this means both as developers but in the short term, as bloggers! d) Get a few commitments from folks that they'll help with the key portions of development. I think--per a previous post in this thread--somethings that are missing are examples of how powerful yet simple Stripes is: A video tutorial of a web-app (this was posted earlier: http://media.rubyonrails.org/video/rails_blog_2.mov) and a sample application like the blog in the previous video (Bugzooky seems to have shelf-rot.) e) The willingness of people to help with documentation. This means making the information that's out there about Stripes right now (wiki, StripesStuff, etc.) relevant and easily accessible. This doesn't have to be done from day one, but we need a commitment that folks will help to update the documentation of existing projects. f) Provide minimal financial support if/as necessary (site hosting, etc.). I'll commit here and now to put in $500 US. Others? Thoughts on the above? If Ben buys in and the others that have contributed to this thread thus-far give it a thumbs up, I'm happy to get the ball Morten started rolling moving along further. My LinkedIn profile can be found here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aagha Sincerely, Aurangzeb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
