Howdy all, we've gotten a lot of feedback since the 1.0 release, some good and some 'suggesting improvements'. Most of this feedback has revolved around the first hour of the Zend Framework experience- a period of time that has becoming more and more critical as other frameworks have set expectations for a time-to-hello-world measured in minutes, if not seconds. While we don't feel that this is necessarily the use case that will make or break your next mission-critical project, there is no reason why we can give our users a great first hour to lead in to that life-long love affair with all things ZF. So we've responded with a few initiatives, including development of tooling and an education-focused project that you'll all be hearing more about soon. But one of the simplest and most effective projects we have yet to fully deliver on, until now. Without further ado, it's my pleasure to announce our new, official ZF *QuickStart Contest*! We're looking to put together the most useful, interesting, and up-to-date QuickStart possible, and *we need your help to do it*. Please see the QuickStart Contest wiki page for more details: http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/QuickStart+Contest. And yes, there are even prizes! That you may actually want! :) And if you can't find the time to take part in this contest but you simply must find a way to give back to the ZF project (while winning some choice schwag), never fear. We plan to hold more contests as we find new and exciting ways to give our contributors more stuff to do. :D
Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions for improving the contest or the final QuickStart. BTW, the deadline is 3/9, so stop reading this and get to work! ,Wil
