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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The suggestion is good, however I'd just add the
note that a similar thing was proposed for Catalyst but it didn't
work.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The proposal was to stop Catalyst Advent Calendar
and publish an article just once a month, but finally there were no articles,
and at the end of the year the Advent Calendar was published again.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It could work for Dancer if the article publishing
on every 2 weeks is better controlled/monitorized though.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>--Octavian<BR></DIV>
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<A title=gabor@szabgab.com href="mailto:gabor@szabgab.com">Gabor Szabo</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dancer-users@dancer.pm
href="mailto:dancer-users@dancer.pm">Perl Dancer users mailing list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 26, 2015 6:59
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [dancer-users] Dancer Advent
Calendar 2015</DIV>
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<DIV>Hello there!<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>My worthless 2c:<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Based on our experience with the Perl Weekly, people usually click on
1 maybe 2 articles. So I think it is quite unlikely<BR></DIV>
<DIV>many people will be able to follow the Advent calendars.<BR><BR>I also
think it is quite hard to read so many articles in such a short period of
time. Especially as several other Advent calendars<BR>are competing to our
attention.<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Google Analytics of <A
href="http://advent.perldancer.org/">http://advent.perldancer.org/</A> tells
me that most of the month the site gets about 1500-1800 visits /
month<BR></DIV>
<DIV>In December 2013 it got 3500 visits, in December 2014 it got 4,400
visits.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>The <A href="http://perldancer.org/">http://perldancer.org/</A> site gets
about 7-8,000 visits / month.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Instead of and Advent calendar in December, I'd suggest to spread out
the 24 articles and have one published every 2 weeks during
2016.<BR></DIV>Though it does not need to wait till January. It could be
started next week. Then we could include them in the Perl Weekly<BR></DIV>
<DIV>and other Dancer enthusiasts could also spread the links.<BR><BR>I'd also
suggest to publish the articles on the <A
href="http://perldancer.org/">http://perldancer.org/</A> site and to move all
the content from <A
href="http://advent.perldancer.org/">http://advent.perldancer.org/</A>
<BR></DIV></DIV>to the <A
href="http://perldancer.org/">http://perldancer.org/</A> and to create a
unified table of context for all the articles, but that's a slightly different
story.<BR><BR></DIV>regards<BR></DIV> Gabor<BR><BR></DIV>
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