Hi Tom This project looks very interesting, and I am very impressed with your screencast.
CMSs are extremely popular with technical, non-technical, individuals and businesses alike. Therefore, if apostrophe is good enough, it could easily garner attention independently of it's relationship with symfony and the symfony community. Don't you think it would be a good idea to develop it's own online strategy, rather than relying on symfony's existing tools? By this, I mean, why not start an apostrophe google group, an #apostrophe freenode channel, and an apostrophe forum, and give links to them on a "Support" section of the apostrophe website? This will give new users the sense that there is a place to go for help if they get stuck. Furthermore, a section with a list of links to apostrophe- related symfony plugins (to the symfony plugin repo) would also be convenient, similar to the Wordpress plugins and Joomla extensions pages. Currently, symfony users are already attracted to using apostrophe, but people seeking a good CMS are unlikely to discover it above other well-known ones like joomla, drupal, modx etc. If they do, they will be put off my the lack of its community. Hence, the benefit of a web presence that is more independent of symfony would provide a two- pronged strategy for the uptake of both symfony AND apostrophe. On a different subject, myself, and other symfony users on IRC, are confused by the following statement, taken from your website: "At Apostrophe's core is our Symfony plugin called a" You aren't seriously calling the plugin simply "a", are you? Although I personally like the name, "apostrophe", I am not sure that it is very practical, as I do recognise that it will be pretty difficult for users to find information about it in search engines, above other irrelevant stuff about grammar, punctuation, and pages about output bugs in various other software. It's useful to note that the competitors, joomla, drupal, modx, have unique (non-English language) names for this very reason. Hence, a plugin called "a" really doesn't seem like a very good idea. I'd be interested in your clarification of this. Best wishes Hal -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en.
