Ok I understand better your vision. What I expressed were some points to highlight, more than a precise proposal. I tried to point out some more business value for this, not substituting yours but figuring out something to add.
Maybe a sort of "manifesto" (eg: on a github repo) could be useful in this moment, with a synthesis of your first 3 emails and the previous one Nevertheless what I proposed, and this is a serious proposal, is https://symfonybricks.com On Friday, April 19, 2013 3:39:05 PM UTC+2, Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote: > > > On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:47 , Emanuele Gaspari > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > @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. > > What you are suggesting here is more for people that are already within > the Symfony2 eco-system and here I can see your suggestion as quite useful > as well. > > My vision for this was a bit different. For one I did not want it to be a > show case of the company that did the project (although I am fine with the > company being mentioned) but more a show case of what kind of projects have > been done with Symfony2. The target audience should be exclusively manager > types, ie. non developers. As such it would expect minimal technical > expertise and the show cases should position Symfony2 against other PHP > alternatives, but even more importantly entirely different stacks (Spring, > Rails etc). The show cases should be very high profile, ie. names people > recognize or have a considerable "wow-factor" for manager types. > Furthermore due to the target audience we will likely need > marketing/managers to write or at least review each show case. In general > it would be quality over quantity. > > regards, > Lukas Kahwe Smith > [email protected] <javascript:> > > > > -- -- 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.
