Re: Re: Marketingq

> On Fri Dec 05, 2003 at 01:0012AM +0100, Lukas Smith wrote: >> > From: hfuecks@phppatterns.com [mailto:hfuecks@phppatterns.com] >> > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 12:56 AM >> >> > How about a "Complete Idiots" guide to PEAR, with full in's an >> > out's >> of >> > installing PEAR and using the package manager(s) (inc. Web interface) >> on >> > Unix and Windows, for those that need their hands help (including why >> PEAR >> > has an installer in the first place). The manual today is clear but >> can >> > see points where a beginner would stuggle (for example it assumes >> they've >> > got the php executable in their path: "php go-pear.php"). >> >> Yeah the manual will never have the idiots guide focus .. > > What's speaking against that? > >> > Other than that, how about listing packages on Hotscripts et al? They >> get >> > alot of traffic and are popular with many PHP coders. >> >> Yeah I think we once had the topic of doing automatic submissions to >> such >> sites. > > Strong -1 on that. We shouldn't make ourself look ridiculous with this > whole marketing thingie. (Listing PEAR packages on Hotscripts > definitively is ridiculous.) > On a more sensible angle, what about PEAR blogs? Contibutors could have a blog somewhere like http://pear.php.net/user/{username}/blog. With (individual?) RSS feeds, that could provide an opportunity to promote on sites like Artima Buzz: http://www.artima.com/buzz/index.jsp. Might also make PEAR more approachable, as people can get to know who's who, plus perhaps there'd be more, ad-hoc, documentation (bloggers provide further discussion of how to use packages etc.)