[Solar-talk] First post

[Paul M Jones]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 7:53 PM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:

> What it lacks imho is a place elsewhere to share code and ideas. A
> mailing list is ok, but... a community around it must be started one
> day. I tend to emphatize these areas, don't mind... I had great
> support and feedback so far, really great, but Solar could attract
> more people opening some more places to let people share stuff...

I completely agree.  The Solar community is small relative to Cake,  
Symfony, Zend, etc. but I think it's a higher-quality community.     
Another thing that will attract folks is to write articles about it,  
make blog posts about it, etc. (which I encourage you all to do).   
And another is for me to put it on Freshmeat, which (from past  
experience with Savant and YaWiki) drives a lot of traffic to the  
site, at least on release days; that's on the "eventual" todo list.

One problem is that I just don't have the time available (between  
coding Solar, coding for work, and my "real life") to set up the  
necessary community support structure.  Luckily, a lot of my coding- 
for-work will translate (at some point) back into Solar, so that  
should make community-building easier.

The other problem is that I want Solar to "eat its own dog food" -- I  
want there to be a Solar-based wiki, forum, etc. when possible, not  
just add-ons.  Of existing software, YaWiki actually presents the  
best available option for a wiki, I think, since it can use  
authentication from any external source; and then Vanilla could stand  
as the "source" for accounts.  But it takes time to set that all  
up.  :-(



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