On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Francois Meillet < francois.meil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Philippe for raising this issue > > Maybe it's time to take a step back to better analyse the situation and > where we want to go. > Because we don't want to be the only ones using the best framework. > > What need to be done ? > > If we promote Wicket right now, we will end up with a big failure. > In marketing, you don't sell the product, but the product's perception > people have. > > So what could be the plan ? > > I would say, in that order : > > -up to date documentation > -user friendly documentation > -more exemples for beginners > branch: https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/wicket/repo?p=wicket.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/reference-guide current state: http://martin-g.github.com/wicket-reference-guide/ I'll probably be able to document a topic or at most two per week. Then based on the types of questions in the mailing lists I'll update the docs and add more topics. > > and, once it's done, I repeat, once it's done, > > -marketing slides for decision makers > -more buzz in any java/web forum to promote wicket > > > François > > Le 5 févr. 2013 à 09:52, "Chris Colman" <chr...@stepaheadsoftware.com> a > écrit : > > >> your loosing the focus pretended to be justify before: "marketing", > >> not tech. and many people "first see", later "think" :) > > > > I think the problem is that most good software engineers see 'beauty' in > > the elegant component based, object oriented architecture of Wicket - we > > can all go "oooh" and "aaaah" just thinking about how truly beautiful > > Wicket has been 'engineered'. > > > > We see beauty beyond the external presentation. > > > > People out in the real world however, or developers who don't get the > > "oooh/aaah" value from elegant design and architecture, are usually > > 'beauty is only skin deep' people - and given then don't care about > > elegant engineering 'under the hood' their evaluation of the 'goodness' > > of something is based totally on the appearance of the 'skin'. > > > > I think we have to grasp the concept that there are two different types > > of people and they're on opposite ends of the spectrum - the less > > 'engineering' someone is the more they crave 'funky look and feel'. > > > > Because of the above, and maybe I'm going out on a limb here, IMHO > > Wicket's much wider adoption is totally reliant on improving the Wicket > > website's 'looks' to newcomers on their first visit. > > > > Regards, > > Chris > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > -- Martin Grigorov jWeekend Training, Consulting, Development http://jWeekend.com <http://jweekend.com/>
