So maybe another thing we need on the main site is a "Camping Ring"
feature to tie in all Camping fan sites! :-)
On 6/30/2010 7:03 AM, Sean Busbey wrote:
kylekyle and I have planned to use http://thelittlewheels.com/ as a
showcase for camping stuff. probably even more confusing to new
people than whywentcamping
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 13:57, Philippe Monnet<r...@monnet-usa.com> wrote:
Thanks Magnus! I love the idea of working on the web site for 2.1.
I am still not crazy about the web site name though - as it is not easy for
people to remember if they don't know the connection with _why. I personally
would have preferred rubycamping.com or something linking Camping to Ruby
somehow. But if everyone prefers that name I am fine with that.
A couple ideas for the site:
Keep the home page simple with all content fitting within 1280 x 1024
Use a catchy design (need some help here)
Accentuate that Camping is about Ruby (maybe also include the ruby logo
somewhere)
Have a brief note about the connection to _why and a link to a page
explaining the history of Camping with further links to _why's other sites
Encourage people to try it by capitalizing on some of Camping's strengths:
Fast to learn - requires only basic Ruby skills
Much simpler than Rails but more structure than Sinatra/Padrino
Lightning fast and memory efficient allowing fast and efficient sites
Can evolve from simple file to organized directory structure
Can layer in more features later using persistence and choice of view
engines
How about using some kind of an animated (auto advancing) slideshow to
highlight some of the benefits? See an example at:
http://blog.monnet-usa.com/?p=276
How about a page on learning with a link to the book as well as a list of
links for other tutorials or short explanations on key topics (e.g. how to
do migrations, how to use include/extend, how to use different view engines,
etc.)?
How about a page about plugins with some brief description of their intent?
I would love for us to include _why's cartoons in some of the sub pages ;-)
Who would be interested in working together on the site?
Could we do a couple graphic mockups of the main page? How should we
exchange them? Via the mailing list?
I am ready and excited to help with that. I think it would be great to
launch the site in time for _Why Day (Aug 19th)!
Philippe
On 6/30/2010 5:08 AM, Magnus Holm wrote:
Hey campers!
I think it's about time to release Camping 2.1, which features:
* Support for other template engines (Haml, ERB, etc) out of the box
* No longer depends on ActiveRecord (this was a bug)
* Camping.options is now a Hash where you can put all sorts of
configuration stuff
* Camping::Server now uses Rack::Server (got rid of some code)
* See all changes here:
http://github.com/camping/camping/compare/2.0...master
--
There's still one thing I want to improve before we release 2.1
though, and that is the website. Currently it only redirects to the
RDoc, but I believe we can do better.
Checkout this: http://whywentcamping.judofyr.net/ (also see the GitHub
repo for some more information:
http://github.com/camping/whywentcamping.com)
Better? Worse? You tell me :-)
Have a look at the issues I'm aware of
(http://github.com/camping/whywentcamping.com/issues) and please add
your own too.
// Magnus Holm
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