Re: [Proposal] Highlighting *.php.net Projects

Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

Most of the information I mentioned IS already on the PEAR/PECL/GTK/Smarty site, but people just don't know it. I find that more frequently than not, people think PEAR is a Database Abstraction Layer. The idea is to educate people in an easy way, some place they can find it. Theres nothing to stop these articles being put on the PEAR/PECL/GTK/Smarty sites - they would indeed benefit from these. But short term, php.net ensures these documents get exposure they should get.

Yep. As I have said, I like the idea of promoting these subprojects. And I also think that the long term the sites will benefit from having these introductions on their own pages. So what about having a "featured project of the month" or something like that above the first news item in a box, which has two paragrapgs of introduction of a project and a logo of that project, and leads the viewer to an introduction page hosted *on the project site*. This way, people will get to the project site while reading the introduction, and they can instantly discover what the project offers. Why not put these introductions to the right place the first time instead of playing with them later? Goba

This seems like a viable idea... I tried to contact Colin Viebrock (who I am told is the designer of the original PEAR and PECL logos) to see if he's interested in designing something simple for this but I got a "user not recognised" error from his mail server, so if anyone has an alternate e-mail address they can send me, or can get him to contact me I'd be greatful. Also, Frank M. Kromann (fmk@php.net) has agreed to write an article on PHP-GTK which means there is now someone for each of the 4 articles - or whatever you want to call them. One thing we have to think about, is what happens when each of the 4 projects articles is finished... ? Finally, a small page about the project itself on php.net (as in, the "Highlights" project) to make it clear what its doing, and that its not for non *.php.net projects might be a good idea to stop a flood of people asking to be a highlighted project. - Davey