Great ideas. I think the best way to judge interest in a conference is to go ahead and issue a CFP and see how many submitted talks there are. Then you could get together with the probable presenters and schedule the time and location.
On Jan 2, 2008 2:59 AM, Casper Fabricius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Sean, > > I like both ideas. Being a developer and having struggled a lot with > different aspects of Radiant during the past 8 months or so, I > wouldn't mind if some of the articles had a technical aspect in them, > but maybe that is what you have in mind? I'm thinking; not just "which > extensions do you use?" and "what are your approach to language > versioned caching?" but also stuff like "how do you decide when to > build your own extensions?" and "how is a balance found between > between pure radiant and other rails functionality?". > > As for your second proposal I see several ways. One way is to start > out modest with minor gatherings (which makes it kind of expensive for > us in Europe to attend if the meeting is in the US), aim for a real > conference (is the audience big enough?) or to use - say - RailsConf > and have a Radiant workshop or track. But I'd definately like to talk > to other Radiant users (and perhaps use that as a platform for > contributing to Radiant) one way or another. > > Happy New Year! > > Casper Fabricius > Copenhagen, Denmark > > > > On 02/01/2008, at 2:05, Sean Cribbs wrote: > > > Happy New Year, Radianteers! > > > > Apologies to those who get the allegory in the subject -- no > > cannibalism > > today. What I'd like to do is get some feedback from the community > > about a few ideas I've had swimming in my head for a while. > > > > The first, the more modest one, is to start a series of articles on > > the > > blog where we (who "we" is will be determined) interview creators of > > prominent sites that have been built with Radiant and discuss their > > experience with it. This could eventually progress into a sort of > > "gallery" of sites similar to shopify's gallery. > > > > The second proposal, a bit less modest, is to hold a one-day > > conference/meeting/powwow/thing about Radiant sometime in the next > > year. Nothing concrete has formed in my mind about how this would > > work, > > but I'd like to get a reading on the community interest before I > > pursue > > it more seriously. > > > > I appreciate any of your comments! > > > > Cheers, > > > > Sean > > > > P.S. I will be at the Boulder Ruby (http://boulderruby.org/) meeting > > with Loren Johnson on January 17th (16th?) -- hope to see some of > > you there! > > _______________________________________________ > > Radiant mailing list > > Post: [email protected] > > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > > _______________________________________________ > Radiant mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ > Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant > _______________________________________________ Radiant mailing list Post: [email protected] Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/ Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
