I dont think that ZF is that simple. I have been learning it for the past month and its not that easy....I think "enterprise-ready" or something like that would work...
bradley.holt wrote: > > Wil, > > Not that I think there's anything wrong with the existing slogan, but > since > you asked for ideas... > > My first thought is that you're trying to communicate simplicity, so your > slogan should be simple as well. Looking at the Why > ZF?<http://framework.zend.com/whyzf/>page gives a few keywords that > nicely describe the positive aspects of ZF. > Perhaps something as simple as: > > "simplicity, power, productivity" > > or, getting a tad bit clever: > > "simply powerful productivity" > > or, risking complexity: > > "simplicity, power, and productivity for building your web applications" > > or, a different approach all-together: > > "from the PHP company" > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Wil Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Wow. I didn't think this would be such a point of discussion. I hope I >> can settle this once and for all. It is proper English- "meet" is >> imperative; "Simplicity" is directly addressing simplicity by name as if >> it >> were a person. Take it from someone who double majored in Comparative >> Literature and Computer Science in college. J >> >> In any case, this tagline was never meant to be permanent or the sole >> slogan associated with ZF. The main point was trying to express ZF's >> philosophy in a short- hopefully memorable-slogan. In doing so, we hoped >> to >> differentiate ZF from the other frameworks and give it a "face". Other >> slogans were brought up that we may use in the future, perhaps even >> alongside this one. **But I'd really like to hear what you guys might >> come >> up with** for two reasons: >> >> >> >> 1) We might end up with some very good slogans to use later. >> >> and >> >> 2) I'm extremely curious what our community see as the >> differentiators for ZF and what ZF means to all of us. >> >> >> >> Please feel free to throw out ideas here. I would like to suggest you try >> to aggregate all your suggestions in one mail, however, so that we don't >> create too much non-technical traffic. And, of course, if we were to use >> a >> slogan suggested by a member of the community, we'd have to make sure >> Zend >> held the copyright and could trademark it if necessary. >> >> >> >> ,Wil >> >> >> >> *From:* Robin Skoglund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:23 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [fw-general] Simplicity Meets Power and not Simplicity, >> Meets Power >> >> >> >> I don't know what English courses you guys have taken, but a comma does >> not translate into the word "and". It simply states there should be a >> brief >> pause before continuing, whereas "John meet Sue" sounds rushed. >> >> Simplcity, Meet Power is an excellent slogan in my mind :) >> >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Joseph Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> Yea there should be no , that just does not make sense as it translates >> into >> >> >> >> John and meet Sue >> >> >> >> "John meet Sue" sounds more proper >> >> >> >> On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Paul Mark wrote: >> >> I see what you are trying to say, but it should be no comma there or >> "John, meet Sue" makes no sense in this translation. >> >> Again - the "John, meet Sue" sounds funny by itself when referring to >> people ( it is out of context )....and it sounds even more incorrect when >> applying to abstract or "programming" framework. >> >> It just looks unfinished...thats all... >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Josh Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I am pretty sure they are not describing the framework as "Simplicity >> Meets Power" but introducing Simplicity to Power. "John, meet Sue" >> "Simplicity, Meet Power" >> >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Martin Martinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> I'm not an expert in English, but Wil already posted the reasoning >> behind this wording. Search the archives :-) >> >> >> On 16/04/2008, photo312 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > Can someone fix it - it kind of looks embarrassing... >> > >> > the saying should be:"Simplicity Meets Power" >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Simplicity-Meets-Power-and-not-Simplicity%2C-Meets-Power-tp16722510p16722510.html >> > Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > >> > >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Martin Martinov >> http://mmartinov.com/ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Bradley Holt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Simplicity-Meets-Power-and-not-Simplicity%2C-Meets-Power-tp16722510p16733211.html Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
