Re: Some PEAR web-related proposals

Hello, Alexander Merz wrote: > 6. Make more advertising! PEAR isn't brand into the mind of the PHP people. > Maybe you remember the IRC discussion about PEAR banners with slogans like > "Rasmus use PEAR, for what do you wait?". Why not create such banners? Some > OpenSource-related sites offers free ads for non-commercial OS projects. You have touched a very sensitive area for which there seems to be not much agreement in the Open Source world. Some Open Source developers have alergy to concepts like advertising, marketing, promotion, etc.. because they sound as if what is being promoted is not free. I don't think that matters. As long nobody is misleading anybody, I believe that all methods are valid to promote Open Source products and technologies. If you don't promote your project, people that could benefit from it will never know about it, while they may just go and use something else that is probably not Open Source and may not even satisfy the users as your Open Source project. So, lets invest on making sensible and effective efforts to promote PHP, PEAR and whatever you believe in. In that sense, if there is interest, the right hand banner area of the PHP Classes is reserved for doing banner exchanges with partner. So I am open to doing banner exchange with PEAR or any other PHP content related site. Over the years, sites like www.WeberDev.com and PHP projects like Phorum.org have been exchanging banners with the PHP Classes site. I don't have numbers but I am sure that many users were brought to each others sites. Today, PHP Classes site is raising its audience with near about 300 new subscribers a day. That leads to about 500.000 page views a month but it is growing exponentially. When I start with mirrors, for which the tests should happen this month, I expect the audience to explode. After that I some more user grabbing ideas that I will not talk about yet because I want to make the proof of concept first, but I expect the audience to grow further. In sum, if there is interest, just let me know so I can setup the exchange. There is no hit by hit accounting. So, some days one site may lead more users to the other but I don't mind even if it is the PHP Classes site to lead more users out of it. The format of the banner to be exchange is IAB button 2 which is 120x60. You can send me an URL so you can even rotate PEAR banners to grab more attention. Once you send me the URL I will send you a graphic of the same size or a URL pointing to it if you prefer, so we can start exchanging for mutual benefit of both sites. Regards, Manuel Lemos