I want to chime in on this Pylons marketing topic -- I'm sure many, if not all, of you are also Hacker News ( http://news.ycombinator.com/ ) readers, so why not piggyback by commenting on the Django/Python web framework related threads there, especially those not-so-positive reviews such as this recent one -- "Dropping Django" ( http://www.recruititassociates.com/jobs/job.aspx?jobid=2743 ) to promote awareness/interest on Pylons? The sad news is that I always found myself being the only one doing that and not recognizing the familiar names here over there -- I hope I'm under the wrong impression.
There are many times more founders/evangelists on HN than on any pure tech forum like this one, and every conversion gained over there effectively means winning potentially dozens of developers under/ around them. Marketing just requires a bit of persistence, and if Seth Godin and Tim Ferriss can do it, we sure can as well. Thoughts? Jerry On Jul 20, 5:11 am, Iain Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Taking Ben's suggestion, I just went ahead created a new thread. > > Mike Orr said: > """ > I have started a Talking Points wiki page to gather the essential > points. Please add anything that's missing. > > http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscommunity/Talking+Points > """ > > Thanks Mike, what do you and the other core team propose we do from here > with this starting point? It is probably the area where I can most > helpfully contribute to Pylons, as I've done a fair bit of > sales/marketingstuff and as I mentioned, I feel I have a real vested > interest in making sure that clients feel good about the future > viability of Pylons ( and Repoze, Pypes, etc ). > > As cheesy as it sounds ( and we don't have to call it that ), I think we > need a clear "Pylons Vision Statement". The purpose and future goals of > Pylons distilled into a few very clear sentences that help separate it > from competition, but in a realistic and accurate manner. IMHO, I > believe this has been one the main problems for TG, no real clear vision > on what the framework was trying to provide and for whom. Some wanted it > to be a django-competitor, others something different, and that has been > an elephant in the room for too long now. > > iain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
