By the way, another idea would be to make a series of short feedbacks about why each of us decided to use turbogears compared to competitors.
Le mercredi 7 janvier 2015 11:01:14 UTC+1, lebouquetin a écrit : > > Hi, > > Thanks for your answer, Alessandro. You speak of several professionnal > projects in your environment but a passive community. When I speak to > french guys about turbogears, they are asking if TG is not yet dead. > > I believe there are three things to do : > > - first is to define clearly when to use TG instead of django, flask, > pyramid or other. As a nich product, TG must clearly define use-cases > where > it is better than competitors. > - second is to communicate about it. > - third is to make the community confident with the fact that TG is > not dying and has a future. Even inside tg community the question is > asked... I was personnaly asking myself (that's the reason for this > thread) > : "is it a good investment to spend time on TG instead of learning flask / > django or other stuff. > > I'd be happy to help about this. > > Concerning the documentation, the cookbook recipes are nice, but most of > the time this is not enough in order to succeed. This is where the > community should help. > > Another problem is to give central access to the information related to > TG. Because it is based on common components, it's complicated for the user > to find the good information, and when found on the original documentation, > there are some tg2-related specific problems which make the original > documentation not enough. > > I feel the problem of TG is the community and if we want to make TG > attractive, we have to make it more active. This may be done by ourself, > but I also think it need more members. This is why I propose to do a bit of > "marketing" about TG. > > What about starting a communication campaign like "no turbogears is not > dead" showing a series of articles about what turbogears do well compared > to competitors ? For example, "dealing with several databases is easier > with TG than with django", or "building a mongodb web admin is > out-of-the-box with tg" or other stuff like this ? > > I can write articles - this is something I like to do (and I believe I'm > not too bad - at least in french;) ; but this has to be a community efforts > (for example for subject definition... I'm a TG2 user, not a TG2 expert). > > I know about french websites where to make some visibility for the project > ; what about english-speaking ones ? > > Damien > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
