FW: [PHP-EVANGELISM] plans

Forwarding this because some members haven't recieved it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Seguy [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:42 PM
To: James Cox
Subject: 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 little time in
the
QA. 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!), but now, to gain access to IT companies,
we need to push the PHP solutions, 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.