Re: 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. -- With best regards, Dave Mertens, Development Manager dmertens@ism.nl Innovative Solutions in Media BV Schiekade 101 3033 BG Rotterdam, Netherlands Tel. +31-10-2436060 Fax. +31-10-2436066