[Radiant] A Few Modest Proposals

[Casper Fabricius]

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!
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