Hi Leon,
more random thoughts:
1) One thing FreeTrade needs is a paint job. By that I mean, the FT "site"
looks muy ugly.
Check out these 3 links, in order please ;-)
http://www.phpauction.org/
http://www.theexchangeproject.org
http://www.working-dogs.com/freetrade/
I think the lack of presentation turns lots of people away.
I am no designer, as much as I try. So, I can't help much here. Currently,
the FT site is straight HTML, will the new one be plain vanilla HTML, or
will you use the FreeEnergy framework?
It would be nice to have an actual FT logo.
2) I am willing to help with documentation. If everyone on this list
submitted one section to the documentation, we could have a great doc. for
developers. I am willing to create some documentation, and merge all the
docs together. Any volunteers for content?
3) Andrei Lemos de Almeida just submitted a link to his site. Andrei, did
you happen to translate the language file to Portuguese? If so, please
submit it to the project. I know that there is a site using FreeTrade with
French and they translated the language file. That's 3 languages to include
in the distro. Any more people on the list who are fluent in another
language? Please take some time to translate the language file.
4) I would like to start some list discussions on topics that are of
interest. We can use the group input to enhance the new site and
documentation.
Some potential topics:
Credit Card processing
Integrating with backend systems (Financials)
FT-friendly hosts
Optimizing FT
Adding Ad-management (PHP Ads perhaps?) and Mailing List capabilities
5) Leon, I haven't really had time to peruse FT 2. Can you give a brief
overview of the new release. What are the changes in design? Are you using
classes?
How much of a difference is there between FT 1 and 2? How hard would it be
to 'upgrade' from 1 to 2?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leon Atkinson
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:57 AM
> To: FreeTrade
> Subject: Re: [FreeTrade] thoughts
>
>
> Believe me, the idea of putting FreeTrade on SourceForge is
> something that's
> been discussed off-list for at least a year. It's true, the benefit of
> SourceForge is it gets lots of traffic. However, that's also a
> disadvantage
> because it can be slow and your project tends to get lost in the crowd.
> There's also some other disadvantages, like you're stuck with whatever
> config of Apache they give you. Jon and I like the freedom we
> have with the
> Working-Dogs site.
>
> Micheal is right, the real problem is we need to attract more
> people to the
> project. No one wants FreeTrade to be used more than I do. So, I am open
> to ideas. It may be an abuse of SourceForge, but we might be
> able to simply
> register the project and then make all the links point to the W-D site.
> FreeTrade is listed on FreshMeat, of course. We're not listed on the
> PHP.net site, but I think that's a manpower issue.
>
> I guess this is an appropriate time to talk about our plans for
> Working-Dogs. Since we began it, W-D has been hosted at Clear
> Ink, a Web/Ad
> agency where Jon and I worked for a long time. Jon moved on to Collab.Net
> early last year, and I left to start percipien last month. Clear Ink has
> been very generous by providing both hardware and bandwidth for the W-D
> site, but in order to make the lives of the IT staff easier, we're working
> on moving the site to another location.
>
> When we do separate W-D from the CI network, it should allow us even more
> freedom to give access to the resources on the box. I can envision giving
> trusted individuals access to update the site. Putting the site into CVS
> might be a good idea, actually. Jon and I will have to work out the
> details.
>
> Here's an idea for getting publicity: write an article. Zend.com
> is always
> interested in articles on PHP. Also consider that writing about FreeTrade
> (or just a tiny part of it) also benefits the project by creating
> documentation. There are other sites that accept articles, too, like
> phpbuilder.com, WebMonkey or even CNET.
>
> One big goal we need to strive for is completion of FreeTrade 2.
> It should
> have been finished by now, but I'm mostly working on it alone and
> I haven't
> had much time in the last six months. I should have much more time going
> forward, fortunately. What would be great is if we could find
> someone who's
> willing to build a store with what we have so far. If anyone out there is
> pitching an ecomm site and thinks it would help to have the maintainer of
> the FreeTrade project speak to the client, I can be available. :)
>
> Leon
>
>
>
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