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[Leo White]

>Python not having success stories on it's front page is fairly new. They
>had that NASA thing on their for ages.

I had another look, and python.org does indeed have a success stories page. 
And so does ruby-lang.org. So clearly its just me who doesn't like them :)

>
>FWIW, I think success stories are fine, I just ignore them.
>On Jan 8, 2013 10:03 PM, "Leo White" <lpw25 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> I think that both those examples would be better posted on someone's 
>> blog and fed through the Planet. And I think the same could probably be 
>> said of anything that might go on blog.ocaml.org.
>>
>> If something is important then it should have its own page, but if it 
>> is just something interesting that you would like to share with people 
>> then it is probably better to put it on a personal blog.
>>
>> Just my two cents.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Leo
>>
>> P.S. I also think that those kind of "see, people do use our language" 
>> pages seem a bit desparate on an official website. You don't see a 
>> "Python success stories" page on www.python.org.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 8 2013, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
>>
>>  On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Malcolm Matalka <mmatalka at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What would be the intended content for the blog?
>>>
>>>
>>> Mainly I wanted it because there are items that make sense to go on the
>>> ocaml.org website, but which become slowly less relevant over time. It's
>>> awkward to keep these as normal html files. A few examples:
>>>
>>> * Serious Contender page [1]. It's nice, but where to put it? It would 
>>> be perfect as a blog post (backdated in this case) because it was 
>>> relevant at the time the page was made, and we don't want to claim this 
>>> as a recent news item (since the information in it is old).
>>>
>>> [1] 
>>> https://github.com/ocaml/**ocaml.org/issues/34<https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/issues/34>
>>>
>>>
>>> * Success Stories [2] might make more sense as blog posts. Some of the 
>>> current ones are kind of outdated. Making each of these a blog post 
>>> would automatically make them less relevant over time (and presumably 
>>> we'll have new success stories being added over the years). The current 
>>> page could be a filter on blog posts tagged "Success Story".
>>>
>>> [2] http://ocaml.org/success.html
>>>
>>>
>>> * Semi-official announcements, e.g.
>>> - a new release of OCaml (but this would overlap with Inria's blog, so
>>> should be coordinated with them)
>>> - "Real World OCaml in print". This would be a result of wide spread
>>> importance to the community.
>>>
>>> I think it should be limited in use. Opening it up more widely seems
>>> unnecessary. You can easily make your own blog, and subscribe it to the
>>> Planet.
>>>
>>> -Ashish
>>>
>>>
>>
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