On Wed, 16 Oct 2024, Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal wrote:
Sorry, but there has been so much nonsense in this thread, I just had to add
my 2c as well.
On 10/15/2024 4:07 PM, Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal wrote:
At the Lazarus Congress in Cologne in October 2024, it ended up being very
interesting. An important question came up.
Why are no new users coming to Lazarus/Freepascal?
Why do we find it so difficult?
How can we get new, younger users to come to us?
The same questions came up over a year ago at a Freepascal/Lazarus meeting
in
Backnang.
I have some answers:
- The official Freepascal website doesn't look like the project is very
lively.
An absolute non-factor. Yes, the "Latest News" seems to be dated, but then I
would prefer people involved in the project work on compiler related issues
rather than on web sites.
Actually, my employer has already offered twice to sponsor a web-designer to
overhaul the website. Money was not an issue. The idea was to announce a
contest and to select a winning design. The designer gets then the money.
I have proposed this to the FPC core team, after some insistance I managed
to get a list of constraints from (if memory serves well?) 1 person.
I admit I was put off by what I perceived to be a complete lack of enthusiasm
for this plan in the team, so I put it in the refrigerator for the time
being...
My intent is to re-start the debate on this after 3.2.4 comes out.
Just to say that I do think the site (20+ years old?) can use an overhaul,
and that with the above plan, no developer time needs to be spent on it.
Michael.
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