anatoly techtonik wrote:
How about local PHP news and conferences? I know in russia there is a big PHP communtity, what uses russian language and organizes their own russian based conferences. Not too much people uses PHP.NET site for anything else than download and manual. For most russian language auditory monthly conference and training invitations available from PHP.NET site at the moment do not make sense at all and I do not see much sense in translation of local USA or China events into russian and russian local events announcements into english. PHP.NET must be personalized to be useful for everyone, so everyone can choose what to read in preferences.
Having each mirror contain different information that we can't keep track of centrally would be way too messy. We can't have local mirror maintainers put ads or other inappropriate content up on php.net and have it go undetected until someone complains because we don't speak Armenian. We have the calendar sidebar on the right for such local announcements and they don't need to be in English.
The project like this system can turn out very complex and without developers it will not be available anytime soon (see livedocs for example of idea and good, but unwieldy code). Seems like PHP.NET need more full-time support/developers as much as abandoned zend php-collaboration project.
I am really not looking to turn this into a big wiki or some random php news site. www.php.net is a slow-moving site containing information about PHP. There are plenty of forums, wikis, and day-to-day news sites out there that covers that space.
-Rasmus
