[Dancer-users] Request for donation

[sawyer x]

I won't go in to whether the current design is good enough or better than
Sinatra (that appears to be a matter of taste), but I can note that these
ideas don't contradict each other.

A web designer works on a website, a programmer and general contributor can
help on docs. I'd rather have a web designer look into creating a better
website (if she deems it worthy - I've received a "nothing is wrong with it"
responses from designer before) than ask her to patch up the docs.

That way a person's gift doesn't go to waste and we might get an even better
website! :)

(and excuse me for top posting)

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Naveed Massjouni <naveedm9 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't disagree that Dancer should have a professional looking
> website.  I just think that Dancer already has a professional looking
> website.  When I show off Dancer to my friends, I'm proud to show them
> the perldancer.org website because I think it is very nice, clean and
> useful.  The website is designed much better than Sinatra's for
> example.  My opinion is that energy would be better spent on improving
> the pod docs on cpan.
>
> Naveed
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Alexis Sukrieh <sukria at sukria.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The Dancer project started in august 2009, when I saw Sinatra[1] and
> > thought Perl needed something like that.
> >
> > At first it was just a basic route disptacher, but soon people started
> > to pay some attention to it, and contributors started showing up.
> >
> > At the time of this writing, Dancer is 8 months old and has more than
> > 100 followers on GitHub[2], the project is more and more popular and
> > still attracts new users.
> >
> > A domain name has been registered[3] and a mailing list has been
> > created[4].
> >
> > Almost all of the features we want for the 1.2 release are done and are
> > heavily tested, we're quite happy with the overall quality of the code
> > (more than 80% of the codebase is covered by the test suite).
> >
> > So what's next?
> >
> > Well, we want to give Dancer a better website, one with a
> > professional-looking design. To do so, we don't have many options:
> >
> > Either we find a profesional web designer willing to offer his time to
> > do it or we pay one.
> > Facts are that web designers willing to work for free projects (for
> > free) are very rare, and we'll end up with a satisfying result
> > faster if we hire a web designer.
> >
> > Hence this email: if you like Dancer and use it, either personaly or
> > professionaly here is a very good way to contribute to the project:
> >
> > Help us hire a professional designer, make a donation[5] and contribute
> > to give Dancer a better look for the outside world.
> >
> > All donators will be listed in a credit page, with a link to their
> > website if they provide it.
> >
> > Of course, if you are (or know) a good web designer willing to offer
> > his/her time to build a new pro-looking design, feel free to contact us.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> >
> >        Alexis, for the Dancer development team.
> >
> >
> > 1: http://www.sinatrarb.com
> > 2: http://github.com/sukria/Dancer
> > 3: http://perldancer.org
> > 4: http://lists.perldancer.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/dancer-users
> > 5: http://perldancer.org/donate
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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