RE: [PHP-EVANGELISM] contents needed

What about a Top 20 PHP Applications?
Some poll that would let users vote for their favorite PHP applications.

This would make it easy for a newbie to find the right solution for his
needs. Few newbies know where to find GOOD software.


Sincerely,

Maxim Maletsky
Founder, Chief Developer

www.PHPBeginner.com   // where PHP Begins



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Mertens [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 9:37 AM
> To: Damien Seguy
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PHP-EVANGELISM] contents needed
> 
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 07:04:40PM -0400, Damien Seguy wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Here are some details about the current web site, and it's content.
> > Two main categories :
> > PHP Papers,
> > Announcements.
> >
> > PHP papers : This category gathers most of the texts and article,
> > related to PHP, it's current and future use.
> > It holds 4 sub categories, and only one filled :
> > Interview (Derick Rethans, Andrei Zmeivski). One with Stig Bakken
will
> > come soon.
> > PHP Benchmarks : anything to time PHP against its competitors.
> > Use Case : People who used PHP for some common task... sucessfully.
> > Testimonials : People who used PHP for some common task...
sucessfully.
> >
> > PHP announcement holds 3 sub categories :
> > PHP figures : any statistics about PHP (number of users, jobs,
> > countries, whatever).
> > PHP announcement : All major release of PHP, and related project
such as
> > PEAR, SRM, GTK.
> > Press release : All major third party release, submitted or found on
the
> > web. This is a place where
> > any PHP actor can get visibility on its own products.
> Maybe we can also maintain a list of php applications, with a link to
the
> product/application site. People can submit their
> project/application/product to usephp.net.
> 
> Than also less know applications can see the world. I think this can
do the
> same as apps.kde.com for KDE applications..
> 
> > An extra section of the site will cover how to to help anyone trying
to
> > send us some material :
> > how to write a press release (yeah, some of us do great application
and
> > poor communication),
> > how to write a business case, a user case. Ready to fill questions
for
> > an interview. How to
> > use this site.
> I think this is really an important section of the website. I never
used the
> SPIP CMS system, but the article editor, is it just a big text-area of
can
> you devide it into sections and so some publishing work on it.
> Let's day you first have to give a title and category of the article.
Next
> you can write a paragraph. And later add a new paragraph to the
article and
> so on. And maybe we can create some templates for interviews, press
> releases and other article types.
> 
> > Right now, this structure is the first we have, and will do the job
> > until it gets really crowded.
> +1
> 
> > I'm interested in your comments about it, but I'm really attracted
by
> > anything that will populate it, and bring more sens.
> So this mail ;-)
> 
> > I'm sure everyone has already an idea of what it can write for PHP.
> > Please, explain your
> > goals on the mailing list.
> As mentioned before i'm currently write a proof-of-concept WebService
in PHP
> and write clients on ASP, .NET and PHP (Just to show not only PHP apps
can
> contant the PHP webservices).
> 
> I will also try to setup a list that is showing how thing can be done
in
> PHP. I think they're gonna be small articles. I'm not into Java. Maybe
> someone else can write how thing that now are done in Java(2) can be
done in
> PHP.
> 
> I hear a lot that developers say that php4 is old and cannot to the
things
> asp, .net and java2 are doing right now.
> 
> > I would like to stress that tools (mailing list, web site,
design...)
> > are of secondary importance right
> > now. The major goal right now is to gather content, figures,
sayings,
> > interview and have a
> > decent web site. When this is done, GUI and tools will all be there.
> +10
> 
> If we have the perfect website for usephp.net and no content no-one
will
> ever visit usephp.net. So i agree to write first some content and not
to
> focus too much on the website.
> 
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> With best regards,
> 
> Dave Mertens, Development Manager
> [email protected]
> 
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