The Erlang Ecosystem Company Registry

Love this - just did it for both of my companies!

What was the motivation to do this page as a live, opposed to a dead, view?

Those connection lost popups that appear when returning to the tab break my heart.

Just noticed the top title link for “Announcing registry.erlef.org” is wrong. Take us to 404

Definitely things to improve on making those disconnecty things only show when relevant. I believe there was a good snippet going around. Gotta see if I can find it.

Fair question.

We have more plans that will benefit from the site being dynamic. Visualizing contributions, annoyncing new sponsors, things like that. There is also a fair bit of backend around editing, approving and so on. Making it a liveview backend and a static generated front would also have likely kept me from shipping the thing way longer, would have made a weirder end project to maintain. Now it is very straightforward Phoenix and Ash.

Funky. PR welcome

Thanks for this initiative.

Was the addition of country and/or language fields debated ? In my experience a real blocker to adoption in France is the lack of identified French-speaking companies that have Elixir / BEAM ecosystem experience. An official registry would be of great use. I don’t know which other cultures are that focused on local language though.

If this is a desirable addition, I would be happy to help.

It has been suggested after we launched it. Would be happy to add it when I get a moment. If you have particular suggestions about how to it particularly well I’d love to hear about that as well.

A great first step would be offering geographical location of an entity, at least at a country level which is enough to paint a broad vision of available companies in X country. Being able to filter the list by country would be great.

This would allow local communities to redirect to the country-level list while having introduced the subject in their local language - as an example I wouldn’t ask the EEF to maintain French copy, but could refer them to a pre-filtered list on the EEF site, either in slides, an e-mail, or a web page.

If there is interest expressed towards an actual geographical map, it gets a bit more complex as some companies will have multiple locations and a (City, Country) level of precision is a better UX. But I wasn’t thinking about a map, because it creates more vetting and verification work.

Language would be a nice touch but is a separate dimension. The ability to select one or more languages as a company profile creator would be nice. Then someone could link to german-speaking Elixir companies, but not care as much about the geographical aspect.

Note that those are only suggestions .