I agree wholly on the design front, and would like to contribute cartoony doodles and simple (not Backend Web Developer simple, but Designer Simple) web designs in vaguely _why's quirky fun style, if you guys are up for that. I'm currently rather more focused on Hackety Hack's web stuff, but in a couple of weeks when I get tired of drawing fruit bats and laser-breathing dinosaurs, Maybe camping would be a fun place to doodle? :)
If I forget, poke me @Bluebie. @Judofyr - if you want to chat, I am [email protected] on msn/jabber these days. :) Oh, and I don't know what the others think of this idea, but there is some talk of HetyH having a forum in the next refresh of it's website. How would you guys feel about being a part of that? I'm rather fond of the idea of reuniting the old _why community in some common shared space like that, though I'd fully understand if you guys feel it'd be a smelly situation to be a category in another project's forum. Maybe instead - if you guys are pro-forum - there could be a website.. perhaps named something like 'Whyism', a special little cult of _why place for us all to hang out and talk about all his old projects, and our new stuff too. To keep the spirit of it all alive? — Jenna Fox http://creativepony.com On 09/07/2010, at 5:55 AM, Magnus Holm wrote: > Hey guys, > > Philippe had some interesting points about the website: > > 1. Keep the home page simple with all content fitting within 1280 x 1024 > 2. Use a catchy design (need some help here) > 3. Accentuate that Camping is about Ruby (maybe also include the ruby > logo somewhere) > 4. 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 > 5. 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 > 6. 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 > 7. 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.)? > 8. How about a page about plugins with some brief description of their intent? > 9. I would love for us to include _why's cartoons in some of the sub pages ;-) > > Now, the more I look at this list (and my own thoughts about the new > camping site) I realize that we're talking about two different things: > > * A site to attract new users > * A site to inform regular users > > It looks like my attempt (http://whywentcamping.judofyr.net/) tries to > target the latter, while Philippe targeted the former > (http://rubycamping.monnet-usa.com/). Both sites serves a purpose and > I believe both are equally important. > > -- > > Here's what I propose: We split the site into two parts. We turn what > I've created into a wiki. Everyone are welcome to edit and add their > own content. > > Then we take Philippe's ideas/design/site and turn it into > ruby-camping.com or whywentcamping.com or whatnot. It probably doesn't > need to be more than a single page. > > What'd ya think? > > // Magnus Holm > _______________________________________________ > Camping-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list _______________________________________________ Camping-list mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/camping-list
