Thanks so much for the advice fellas. That's a really thorough break down and I appreciate it a lot. I'm going to think it over and talk to everyone involved about it. If there is any chance that we could go with pylons or python, where's a good place to find open source developers that want to work with a non-profit team? I know a lot of people like contributing to things in the public interest, should I go to the Software in the Public Interest? And they'd work with the community? Or do I start something like a window for developers to interact in a repository like git or some other ticketing, tagging, system?
It's just new territory for non-profits to work with the community so it's difficult to know how to get a development community going of happy coders. :) I can design shirts, posters, and merch like that (all related to airships) that can be made for contributors, kinda like a gift bag of airship stuff. I dunno, do people like steampunk? It's all a bunch of cool looking steampunk airship merch. :) Very art nouveau and Maxfield Parish stuff, fantasy art supplied by Tom Kidd. It's going to be a fun project so I'm excited to bring it to the community as I've had my head in new media and programming so I subscribe to a lot of threads. If anyone is interested you can see my funny video on youtube at airshipleague.com. :) And of course contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks and all the best, Paul On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Jonathan Vanasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The differences in speed on webapps are usually entirely due to > blocking at the database level. I think a good comparison would be > someone driving a 40yr old cadillac and a new sports car in a 5mph > school zone lined with cop cars-- it doesn't matter what's under the > hood, you're going 5mph. > > Pylons and RoR are very similar, and also very not. Pylons is very > 'extensible' and allows for more interaction/control of the > developer. RoR has a lot of 'magic', which translates to things > needing to be done in certain ways. Rails apps are often slow -- not > because of Ruby, but because of Rails. I think Pylons might be a bit > more similar to Merb. > > In any event , my suggestion is this: > > - if your lead guy is a Rails programmer, find a new lead guy > > - if your lead guy is a Ruby programmer, and he thinks that the app > makes sense in Rails or Merb - stick to them and avoid the pitfalls of > learning new stuff. > > - in all other situations, Pylons or Django might just be a great > fit! maybe they want to try something new, or they know that its > going to be a PITA to get rails to do what you want. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
