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Table of Contents

Description

This document keeps track of issues brought up on the mod_perl Advocacy mailing-list. It serves as a repository of things people volunteered to do, good ideas missing a volunteer, and overall strategies towards world domination.

If you want to become a part of the effort, make sure to join the list!



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Marketing



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New Users



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Newbies

How can we make it even easier and smoother for newbies to introduce themselves with mod_perl ?



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Quick Start Guide

It was suggested that we have a better quick start guide for new users with stub handlers, stub apache configs, etc. Maybe have a "run in place" installation for people to try mod_perl.



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Sysadmins



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ISPs and Hosting providers

Ideas and tasks to increase the overall availability of mod_perl at ISPs and hosting providers



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mod_perl web host provider HOWTO

It is difficult to find mod_perl friendly hosting providers. Except full hosted server or User Mode Linux which still means they have to maintain an entire server. Should we maybe have a "How to be a mod_perl web host provider?" HOWTO?



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Articles

Ideas for possible articles and existing articles awaiting publication



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Perrin Harkins

Has an article about a client's conversion to mod_perl, thinking about submitting to Linux Journal and/or Dr. Dobbs.



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Randal Schwartz

Volunteered to interview TicketMaster employees for his column.

Has written articles mentioning mod_perl:

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col03.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col17.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col26.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col28.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col33.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col36.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col60.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col61.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col18.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col24.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col32.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col41.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col47.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col48.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col49.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col50.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col54.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col55.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col57.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col58.html

http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col59wt.html



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Frank Wiles

Wrote an article on mod_perl 2.0 for SysAdmin Magazine.

http://www.revsys.com/writings/modperl.html



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Publications



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perl.apache.org



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Linux Journal



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Linux Magazine

Randal has a monthly column there.



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Perl Journal

Randal has a monthly column there.



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Dr. Dobbs



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SysAdmin

Frank Wiles knows some of the folks there.

Randall has a bi-monthly column there.



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Possible Opportunities

A few non technical publications were suggested as good possible targets for mod_perl advocacy. In no particular order :



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Publicity



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Supported Applications

There are tons of modules and applications built on top of mod_perl. It is important to track down the biggest, most used application's compatibility and support under mod_perl 2.0 series.



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Numbers

Need more numbers to show people in the press releases such as number of sites, book sales, etc.



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slashdot.org

Why not coordinate and make efforts to have frequent mod_perl stories cross-posted on slashdot ?

How come mod_perl doesn't have it's own slashdot category icon yet ?



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freshmeat.net

Is there even a mod_perl project categorized on freshmeat ? Is it kept in sync with releases ?



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Google ad words

One suggestion was to advertise through google ad words.



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X-Powered-By

X-Powered-By : mod_perl/2.0

In many cases, servers are hidden behind proxies and don't reveal full server-tokens thru the Server: header. PHP has been using the X-Powered-By header for a long time. Isn't it about time for mod_perl to self-publicize in the same way ?

Owner: gozer



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Useful Contacts and Resources



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The Apache Software Foundation

What kind of help can we get out of them ? We need somebody to be the point person for interactions with them.



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The Perl Foundation

What kind of help can we get out of them ? We need somebody to be the point person for interactions with them.

Jeff Bisbee talked to Gavin Estey (Perl Foundation PR Chair) and the latter agreed to help.



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Fundraising



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Success Stories

This is a list of success stories that should be worth chasing after. We need to get the successful users of mod_perl to speak up.



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Weta FX

Getting a success story from Weta (Lord of the Rings)

Contact: Milton Ngan, <milton (at) wetafx.co.uk>

Owner: gozer



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Overture

They have migrate from Java to mod_perl. Great potential success story along with what they gained from switching to mod_perl. A considerable amount of time and effort must have been spent evaluating possible alternatives.



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Maintainers

The maintainer is the person you should contact with updates, corrections and patches.



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Authors






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