Re: Please bring the conference news back

On Feb 8, 2007, at 22:36, Sean Coates wrote:

Does anyone actually object to reverting this until we can talk about a good solution to the problem?

Yes, I do object strongly!

In the same vein, does anyone actually disagree that we should talk about these things on-list before doing them?

In theory this is a good idea. But nobody really asked about hijacking php.net for the financial benefit of conference organizers.

I'd be happy to help implement a solution that at least attempts to make everyone happy (that means I'll volunteer to help write the code).

The current look is fine. A very small minority (I'd guestimate far fewer than 1%) of php.net visitors are interested in conference announcements.

IMO, we also need to set a soft policy on what is and isn't allowed on the main page (in a collective manner).

This change was prompted by the big frustration that very important news announcements like the one about great progress our *voloteer* docs team has made goes unnoticed because people have given up on php.net as the source of news. I for one, am looking forward to more dynamic and interesting php.net front page with content that is interesting to more than a handful conference goers. Edin