Re: [PHP-EVANGELISM] plans

> Le Lundi 28 janvier 2002, à 03:40 , James Cox a écrit :
>
> Hi all.
>
> First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm Damien Seguy, and I'm mostly 
> doing
> the French version of PHP documentation. I also spend a little time in 
> the
> QA, with MacOSX. I'm really excited about this php evangelism project, 
> as it is already
> what is missing in the French side of PHP. There are lots of technical
> help (full doc in French hey!). Nowadays, PHP has conquered amateur 
> webmasters,
> and we need to push the PHP solutions into the professionnal arena,
> and show it may be used even for critical missions. So, I'm mostly 
> talking James
> into doing a lot of things like setting up this list, while I watch.
>
>> We have 2, possibly 3 aims. Firstly, we have to *advocate* the use of 
>> php to
>> people who are previously unaware, or scared, or uninitatiated in the 
>> ways
>> of the PHP. We need to run cases studies, testimonials, bench-marks,
>> everything that will make php become extremely tempting and exciting to
>> people previously afraid. We will want to enlist the help of the open 
>> source
>> movement here; this is a good time to *advocate* open source here too.
> This is the first mission that I will dedicate myself. I believe we 
> need case study,
> application list, benchmarks with languages, ROI, cost of ownership.
> I'd like to achieve this goal by gathering all those informations on 
> one central site,
> and offer tools to make a useful case study. Project manager may be 
> interested in
> spreading the word about their use of technology.
> Here is a short list of subject treated on this site :
>
> Case study
> Benchmark
> Application
> Press release
> Major figures
> PHP main project evolution
>
> The site will also provide a way to submit informations, and help on 
> how to
> write such a files. The main objective of this part is to have a place 
> for anyone
> setting up his business to have a business look at the technology. Why 
> is it that PHP
> is a good choice? We'll explain it without any technical arguments.
>
>> Secondly, we need to *evangelise* the use of PHP to people who 
>> previously
>> have either started and shy'ed away, or use it badly (and thus blame 
>> alot of
>> the stuff that's going wrong in their scripts on us... an example would
>> perhaps be the user who has a badly written loop, but doesn't 
>> understand
>> looping, gives up - and blames us for writing bad software). Here, we 
>> need
>> to publish articles, content scriptlets, code snippets, libraries, and
>> everything else a PHP developer can benefit from, and improve her code 
>> by.
>
>
> Finally, we need to look at producing something that will support all 
> the
>> PHP user groups, and discussion forums. We want to look at providing 
>> them
>> with webspace, url, etc.
> This may also create vocation and there are already a lot of those User 
> group
> all over the world (toronto user group, all the German groups, and so 
> many others..)
>
> Here is what I'll be contributing for. I hope this will create other 
> vocations.
>
> Damien Seguy.
>