2011/1/3 Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> > > > But for sure having a proper domain name would be great, as well as a > great > > web site with a great graphical design as enclojure has, but I'm not > > planning right now to spend time on building / buying this. > > It's you who manages CCW's web presence then? Huh. >
Sorry, I'm not a native english speaker. Would you please explain how I should interpret "Huh" in this context ? > > > My suggestion would be that, acknowledging that easing the access to IDEs > is > > good for both Clojure adoption and the IDEs : > > > > * there is a dedicated "IDEs" in the top right box on clojure.org, > > currently pointing to the "master wiki page" on Assembla > > * and / or an "IDEs" page in the left menu of clojure.org, with the > > content of the "master wiki page" on Assembla (containing links to each > > IDE-specific Getting Started instructions) > > Please do remember though that someone dipping his toes into > programming and not already an experienced developer (or even, > perhaps, an experienced commercial-software developer with little > experience in the open-source world) is liable to be intimidated by > any links to assembla, github, and so forth on the general theory that > "that leads to source code, bug trackers, developer mailing lists, and > other complicated stuff and I just want to download this thing in an > executable form and try it out". :) > > That's after the first couple of times following links to those sites > in other situations and being faced with a big developer-central page > full of bells and whistles that mostly in turn lead to login prompts > rather than something user-friendly to people not looking to work with > a source code repository and bug tracker at that time. > > It seems there's more content at those sites than just such project > control panels, and you and I know that, but I am considering the > likelihood that part of your desired user base probably does not know > that. And in fact newbie programmers are an *important* part of that > user base, perhaps the *most* important. > For the laziest users (or the more effective ones, everything is always a question of viewpoint ;-), using the eclipse integrated market place is the @right think to do@ as a first intention, anyway :-p > > > Now that all this is said, I clearly have the intention, eventually, to > have > > a domain name for Counterclockwise, as well as a decent website. Now just > > doesn't feel the right timing to me, given that resources are limited. > > That's okay. Once again, it is not for my own sake so much as for that > of potential new users less knowledgeable about some of these things > that I offered these suggestions. > > Yes, we all want the best for clojure, and that's why I said thank you for your feedback. Cheers, -- Laurent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
