@Lukas loving the idea. A showcase would be a great way to achieve multiple goals, it can have so many implications! I try to express the pros I see.
>From the point of view of a company working with Symfony: - I would show which are the skills I can actually put on the ground in this very moment; also showing the evolution of my works based on Symfony - I would have a look to the different levels of the other competitors, including the tools used (apache, nginx, node.js, capifony, oauth, etc...), bundles, and everything of some interest involved in building and deploying - I would highlight the use cases I managed to implement, together with the practical explanations about how I did this (eg: I used OAuth2 combined with FOSUserBundle, giving the possibility to login through facebook, twitter, etc...) As a developer, I'd like: - to have a list of companies/web applications using that bundle/that tool (eg. nginx), to have an idea about the complexity and to know if that company wrote some advice about using that tool - to know how many companies/websites are using Symfony, how it's growing, etc.. This showcase would be something very curated and organized, either in the graphics and the way to publish something. But, before talking about the "how", I say that I think it should be built on Symfony2, and would be a big big plus if the entire platform was open source. In this way a developer could find in the website how much Symfony is used, and see its power for building something by having a look at the code used to build the platform. For this reason I invite you to have a look at *https://symfonybricks.com*; this is exactly the philosophy: offering a useful web application built by the community, in which visitors can benefit from the available stuff, and developers both from the available one and from the "behind" stuff. Also, in my view it will be also a sort of community for Symfony developers. Much work is to be done on it, but in this moment is working well and the interest is growing; as announced in http://blog.symfonybricks.com/2013/04/05/time-for-a-renovated-user-interface, the graphics too will be renovated soon ;) The domain is registered to me, and I'm the main developer and maintainer; hosting this in a subdomain would be awesome. On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 11:16:01 PM UTC+1, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > > Ahoi, > > I wanted to first check if we can put together a small task force on this > before also contacting other places like the Symfony2 forum or users > mailinglist. Basically right now there is no place we can all send our > clients to do show them how good a choice Symfony2 is. There is the > elevator pitch [1] and there is Fabien's "why Symfony" [2] post and a few > slide decks scattered around. The section on case studies is Symfony 1.x > plus Drupal and ezPublish migration [3] . > > But what I would like to see is a place that collects: > - use cases of high profile sites (ie. sites with known brands, high > performance/reliability requirements etc.) > - features and benefits in manager-speak > - list of applications, frameworks and libraries using Symfony2 (f.e. its > cool to say that Amazon used our components for their PHP SDK) > > Examples of our similar sites: > - Drupal http://drupal.org/case-studies > - TYPO3 http://www.t3blog.com > > My vision is to have a site like http://experience.symfony.com were all > of this is collected. It would be maintained on github.com as a static > site. Ideally a few of us developers would setup the site, but hand over > merging of PRs adding new content to more marketing adept people within our > community (or associated organizations). Alternatively we could also put > together something with the CMF (might actually be a great use case to > showcase what it can do) so that content can be managed on the site itself. > > I have also seen projects create dedicated mailinglists to this topic, but > I have seen them get dried up quickly too .. so not sure if it makes sense. > > regards, > Lukas Kahwe Smith > [email protected] <javascript:> > > [1] http://symfony.com/elevator-pitches > [2] http://fabien.potencier.org/article/65/why-symfony > [3] http://symfony.com/blog/category/case-studies > > -- -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on Symfony, please read the procedure on http://symfony.com/security You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Symfony developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
