Just one example: for 6 months we have had no mention at O'Reilly's RIA site

Books are appearing on most any RIA-related topic but not Curl for RIA ( we may underestimate the impact of some key books such as the Ruby "Pickaxe" book)

On the internet, our visibility in European countries in the local languages is dismal: perhaps we are doing better in trade publications or at conferences/shows.

In India I do not see that we get any play through Sonata (perhaps someone can correct my perception on that one.)

I think we need to address SquirrelFish+HTML5 and frameworks such as Cappuccino head-on.

What might help is the announcement of a single major enterprise project in Curl.  This was exasperating in recent years for the Smalltalk environment because major banks were not forth-coming about their internal software development strategies and were doing their hiring only through contractor and consultant agencies (so no visibility on Monster or Dice etc.)  Without some visibility of work at J.P Morgan one might be excused for thinking Smalltalk dead in the USA.  In the case of UNICON, only US government freedom of information laws give a clue that a major institution uses that language - and only as a budget allocation, if I recall.

That being said, I have never seen a Curl career position advertised in English for a corporate IT department and have never heard of an opportunity through any IT placement agency active in the USA.

I have a new initiative at http://cms.aule-browser.com to explore another server-side solution for generating Curl for CMS and CBT/WBT using PHP.

My bias is to use so-called server-side "headless" Smalltalk or a "smart" language such as erlang or ObjectIcon, but there is a lot of PHP+MySQL out there.

If Drupal proves suitable, this would be better as a team effort as it requires a templating framework. A group or project here at developers.curl.com would be helpful in that case.

Thanks

I hope this CMS idea proves to involve more Curl than PHP ;-)

When I look at other (more promising) frameworks there is a lot of work to do from the get-go because they are so tightly coupled to HTML or XHTML (and often needlessly so.)

With PHP I can just flip the Http header to text/vnd.curl on my own templated pages that actually push out Curl.

For starters this will be on the order of "configure the menu" and "configure the sidebar" (proof of concept - not of suitability of this particular framework)