Re: Marketingq

OK. My only competence here is that of being new enough to PEAR that the memory of my first steps is still fresh. I came to PEAR through Quickform Controller. Since then I have been systematically using about 10 packages, and been very happy with it. I find the site generally excellent, with the *notable* exception of the welcome page. When I first came on this page, I really had no clue what it was about and was somewhat put off. So I am sure a quick win is to redesign this page to make what PEAR is more explicit. I made a modest draft: http://www.auderghem-analytica.com/download/PEAR_home_page_redesign.htm I propose more generally to bury the acronymic development of PEAR, which is misleading. In my book PEAR is (currently) neither an application (Horde, SF) nor an extension (PECL) nor a repository (Hotscripts, PHP Classes). It is more a PHP Enterprise Component Library. And the "fleshy pome" business. Just my 2 Belgian francs. Ignatius _________________________ "Lukas Smith" <smith@backendmedia.com> wrote in message news:php.pear.dev-24022@news.php.net... > Hi, > > Davey brought up a good point today on IRC: > PEAR should do at least some basic things in the direction of marketing. > > I think for now the best course of action is to make sure we are well > represented in all PHP mags and at all PHP Events (or Events where PHP is > represented). > > So basically I ask everyone that hears of a PHP Event to drop me a note so > that I can make sure that PEAR is well represented. Actually thinking about > it we may want to put up a Wiki to coordinate things (Paul you up for this > since you are our Wiki expert? ;-) ). There we could also list all PHP mags > and people can list the PEAR articles for each mag there (title, with link > if available) so we can see where we are featured and where we are not yet > featured. > > At the same time we should have good answers ready to some of the criticism > often voiced on the net which is often not well thought out or a result of > the fact that the given person has needs which are too specific to be able > to address them. These things should go into our manual and should help > people in making sound arguments when they see crap thrown around against > PEAR in forums, on IRC or a mailinglists. Maybe someone has a good article > which we can use as a starting point. And maybe some of you even have the > drive to push a document like this. > > Regards, > Lukas Smith > smith@backendmedia.com > _______________________________ > BackendMedia > www.backendmedia.com > berlin@backendmedia.com > > Linn Zwoch Smith GbR > Pariser Str. 44 > D-10707 Berlin > > Tel +49 30 83 22 50 00 > Fax +49 30 83 22 50 07