Is "mod_perl" supposed to be the final choice of the name ? Someones suggested before to use a different name like "Tomcat" for Java. What is the latest conclusion ?
Peter Bi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stas Bekman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 11:54 PM Subject: PREANNOUNCE: modperl banners project > This is just a pre-announce... > > The short story: > > We need somebody to do the coordination for the modperl banners project, > similar to what Jonathan has done with the new logo creation/selection > project. > > The long story: > > We need to create a few banners, so we can use these as ads on friendly > sites. I've already one tech site that wants to advertise us for free. I > know that ads don't really work, but the targetted advertising is in a > better shape. > > I think the current market standard is 468x60 and 150x40 (pixels) and > size about 10k. It's been a long time since I was doing these myself, so > I'm not sure what's the acceptable image format. Definitely not PNG > (Since some older browsers crash on PNGs). but these can be converted to > other more back-compat formats. Anyway, the coordinator should figure > out all these details before posting the announcement, so to prevent > confusing and time wasting. > > The coordinator will accept submissions from individuals and put them > somewhere online (better pre-announce the url, so people can see the > work in progress). I don't know yet if we will need to do the voting, > but it's an option. All depends on how many banners will get submitted. > > The coordinator should post the announcement with details about what and > how to do, where to submit the banners and then after a decided > timeframe post the results back to the list. Of course we will accept > new banners in the future, but for the initial batch it'd be nice to > have some timeframe, since we already have a need. > > Eventually all the chosen banners will appear on the new mod_perl site. > Since we are very close to the transition period, we need a temp > location off-site for collecting the banners. > > Ideas for banners: > > * world domination chapter 1 (only 20% achieved) > * world domination chapter 2 (50% target) > * include the 2.0 theme > * ... > * definitely re-use the new logo > http://wypug.digital-word.com/mod_perl/winner/ > * ... > > Also I don't know if the banners can be animated or not. Someone who's > in touch with the ads bussiness these days, please help the coordinator > to fine tune the specs. > > p.s. I hope that I didn't make this simple thing sound too complicated :) > > p.p.s. could also in parallel run a T-shirt logo contest, we have a new > conference coming up in July. It's definitely a time to start thinking > about mod_perl freebies! > > p.p.p.s. You help is very appreciated! > > __________________________________________________________________ > Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker > http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com > http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com > >
