Yarko-- I LOVE his music. Thanks for turning me onto this artist.
However, one question: is your contest intending us to do your work for you? :) Jon On Dec 18, 9:28 pm, "Yarko Tymciurak" <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jon Troast is amidwestern musician, relatively young-ish (30?), releases > CD's (you can get one free by registering on his website), does house > concerts (we liked him enough around here, we are asking him to come for a > fund-raising concert series). > Well, you might like the music - but that misses the point. > > We all talk about how easy WE have it, how much WE like one framework over > another, etc. etc. > > Jon asks what many, many clients will ask: > > - make my site more user friendly (what does that mean in this case?); > - make my site easy for ME (client) to add content to. > > So here you go - a challenge. Take a look at the existing site. > Make plans; > Discuss what your approach would be; (would you do frequent user feedback > tests?!); > Discuss how web2py would help (and what else it could do that would help > more); > > Let the festivities begin! > Happy Holidays! > > :-) > > Yarko > > B.t.w. - I enjoy Jon, and there are many such situations; a complex one is > for Massimo's classrooms, PyCon2009, Unity Temple (or Restoration > Foundation) web sites, .... and on, and on... > > I just thought THIS challenge would be fun to consider, and give a common > ground for discussions & ideas. > > Have LOTS of FUN! > Enjoy! > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: jon troast <j...@jontroast.com> > Date: Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:50 PM > Subject: Email update (December 18) > > Thanks for reading the first line of this email. There's a lot more > below... > > 1) The show at the Geneva Theater last Saturday went great! Sorry to > those who couldn't be there, but the audience voted on your behalf, > and here are the results: The top 5 songs for the evening were... #1 > Sunshine of Love, #2 One of These Nights (not the Eagles' song), #3 > Somewhere Down the Road, #4 Favorites, #5 Living Room Tour. I'll be > recording demos of these 5 songs sometime in the next month or two > and making them available for free download on my website! > > 2) Speaking of my website (www.jontroast.com), I've been thinking > about having it redone. I want to make it a little more user friendly > and easier for me to add new content. So, if you or someone you know > is in the website designing business, please drop me a line. Any > samples of previous work you've done would be helpful, as well as a > price estimate (I understand that the price depends on how complex we > get, but at least a ballpark figure would be helpful). > > 3) As a Christmas gift to all of you, I'm giving a guilt free > conscience. Here's what I mean- I'm giving you permission to burn as > many copies as you want of my cd Second Story and give them to your > friends! I understand, the whole burning music issue is kind of > complex (How will people hear the music if they can't pass it around? > vs. How will artists make any money if everyone burns their cds?). > Many of you may have already burned copies of it. All of that aside, > I want to get the music out there. So, burn away! As many as you can. > Please! Give them to your bus driver, paper boy, or waitress. Anyone. > If you don't have a lot of money this year, but you can afford to buy > some blank cds, go for it! Give them as gifts. Do you think a blank cd > looks boring? Draw a picture on it. Give them some original art as > well as some music. If they're not grateful, tell them to listen to > Track #4. I just ask that somewhere on there you write my name and > website (www.jontroast.com) so at least they know who they're > listening to and can find and buy more if they want to. > > Obviously, the promotion will benefit me as well. So I guess we kind > of have a gift exchange: promotion for me, guilt free conscience for > you. I've come to the conclusion that a big part of being successful > in the music business is getting your music out to as many people as > possible, whether you're making money from it initially or not. So > there you go. Merry Christmas! (please encourage the recipients to > sign up for my email list and buy the cds as well. Even Santa needs > milk and cookies!) > > 4) Congratulations to Kelly from Racine, WI! She won a cd in the last > contest (it was in an email I sent just to local folks about the show > last Saturday). The contest was about these exciting things called > silent consonant digraphs. However, the contest in this email is > about something even more exciting...raisins!! > > Here's how it works: You need to answer this question- Which raisins > taste better, Dole or Sunmaid? We need a lot of votes on this one, > because the winner will be the 20th person who votes for the winning > raisin. Make sense? So for example, if there are 100 votes for > Sunmaid and 150 votes for Dole (my personal favorite), the 20th > person who voted for Dole would win a free cd. I know, it's a little > complicated, but so are raisins. I mean, they're really just grapes > right? But why are they called raisins and not dried grapes? Think > about it...and then vote! > > 5) The final item in this email is just a heads up that I do have a > Facebook page if you're interested in connecting on there. Someone > was kind enough to remind me that I didn't include it in the links at > the bottom of my emails. So, it's there now. Let's be friends! > > Merry Christmas and thanks for listening! > > Jon Troast > > http://www.jontroast.comhttp://www.myspace.com/troasthttp://www.youtube.com/jontroasthttp://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Troast/862010203 > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Change your info? Stop the emails? Easy! Just click this > link:http://jontroast.com/hostbaby/i?i=2280&p=GuzUyDmzg1sf6CAZsztJ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
