As Freddy mentioned, we have tried and failed a couple of times in the past
to wrangle the resources to design a compelling website for Stripes. You
have my wholehearted support in this effort. I have root on the web server
so I can make the necessary configuration changes and such. I'm not
artistically gifted so I can't offer much in the way of design help.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Aurangzeb Agha <ama...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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