Not sure if this will work, but maybe some users should start using stackoverflow if they have Pylons questions. Then those of us who are good at it can answer it over there. Stackoverflow has a lot of developers, some of them might be over the fence on which web framework to use. Some Pylons evangelist can camp over there to promote the framework and some of its benefits compared to the others. The more questions, the more pylons tag you get and if that number comes close to the popular ones in the future, it can be an indication to the general public that it's a viable technology.
A tag line on the main Pylons site on what it does best and maybe a table with a comparison of what it has that others don't. Doc on migrating from other frameworks to Pylons could be useful too. Don't forget to throw in reddit to along with a link to their source to show real life application of Pylons. I'm no marketing person, but those are some of the steps I would do to promote the framework. On Aug 25, 3:49 am, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Iain Duncan<[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 22:55 -0700, Jerry wrote: > >> Guys, there is obviously a lot of passion and love being ignited in > >> this thread, but instead of talking inward among ourselves here, > >> imagine how much influence can be generated if the same messages are > >> blogged/twittered to the outside world. > > >> So don't bother Ben with non-tech proposals. He is the engineering > >> director, we all are marketing VPs. > > > Nonsense. If there is not buy in from the core developers, there is no > > perceived stability in direction. > > It's only the broad outlines of the marketing strategy that need to be > kept in sync with the developers, not every little article or twitter. > It's fine as long as people don't march off in a direction the > developers aren't comfortable with, or make promises the developers > aren't sure they can commit to. The logo is there for anyone to use, > but if you're going to mail out 15,000 flyers to every Python-web > developer, you might at least mention it first. Or, as has come up, > whether Django-bashing is a good idea. Or what size the sun-yellow > pony should be. (+1 for very big) > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
