> It's too early to waste effort in trying to get people from the .NET > ecosystem into Django.
Says who? Open Source Web Frameworks are all the rage and many startups in Israel are still using .Net. I'm sure you've seen the YC poll - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142 - where open source frameworks take the lead. > Also, it is almost impossible to give a talk > that is both interesting for an experienced python dev and followable > for somebody who has never seen a .py file in his life. > The idea is not to talk about python files about about Open Source as a way of development. We're used to being in 3 IRC rooms, reading django.reddit.com and tracking the Django groups, following the core developers on twitter and more. Jacob can tell a very interesting story abouthow the Django community evolved and how it's been maintained by just 15 core developers working part time. > Trying to be all things to all people means that you suck at > everything. We can put on a great conference about Django or a "blah" > conference about everything. I'm not sure who much experience you have working with closed-source too in a closed enviornment, but the process is completly diffrent. Many closed source developers I talk to don't understand there's much more to Open Source than just the code. It took me quite a while and a few embarrasing posts on the Django groups to get my bearings right - the whole way of communications is different. You think it's "blah" becuase you're already doing it for a long while, but for those close source developers out there, the whole open way is uncharted territory. I admit it's a not going to be very interesting for us who've been using Django for a while (maybe except for a licensing panel), but I do think it's time for Israeli's software R&D to move behind "things we did in the army" and join the open source communities. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyWeb-IL" 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/pyweb-il?hl=en.
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