I will try to attend. But will it be during a week day? or possibly weekend?
On Thursday, September 18, 2014 10:06:11 PM UTC-5, Dave S wrote: > > > > On Monday, September 15, 2014 11:39:04 PM UTC-7, ghufran syed wrote: >> >> I am new to web2py, but would be interested in attending, thank you for >> taking the initiative to set something up! >> > > I can vouch that it is worth meeting Massimo and getting his perspective > in person. > > /dps > > > >> >> On Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:24:53 AM UTC-7, weheh wrote: >>> >>> Thanks for the replies. I went to a meetup last night for the Bay Area >>> python group (not the Bay Area Piggies group), which is one of the largest >>> if not the largest python group in the North Bay. I also looked into >>> setting up a more permanent meetup group for web2py. Here are my >>> conclusions and reasonings about how to go forward with a web2py meetup. >>> >>> We should leverage the existing python group(s) (including Piggies) to >>> spread knowledge of web2py. The python meetup is a large, established group >>> with the necessary infrastructure to organize meetups. I think it will be >>> hard (for me) to start a web2py group from scratch right now because it >>> requires connections to big and interested internet companies with adequate >>> facilities and a willingness to host the meetup. >>> >>> I spoke to the organizers of the python meetup regarding having a web2py >>> session. They were open and receptive to the idea. Some of them remembered >>> Massimo's talk a couple of years ago. One of the organizers volunteered to >>> me that there was some negative sentiment surrounding web2py in the python >>> community, but when I dug deeper, it seemed to be rumor and innuendo, >>> nothing concrete. Seems like the usual controversy that has dogged web2py >>> since day 1 for reasons that are beyond me. >>> >>> Therefore, Massimo, if you're out here in November, let's have you do a >>> short tutorial on web2py (30 to 45 minutes). Then I, and hopefully someone >>> else (Jonathan, Joe?), can give testimonial talks on what we like about >>> web2py and give concrete examples/demos of how we use it for >>> enterprise-grade solutions. I am prepared to put together some examples of >>> cool things you can do with components, rpc calls, multiple forms on one >>> page, etc. The testimonial talks should also be 30 to 45 minutes so that in >>> total, there would be more talks by web2py users than Massimo. This will >>> lend greater credibility to the information exchange and be more convincing >>> that there is, indeed, a movement. >>> >>> I would also use the occasion to poll the gathering to see if there's >>> enough interest to start our own web2py meetup group. >>> >>> The organizers said that if I wanted to drive such a meetup for the >>> python group that they might also invite competing frameworks to give >>> talks, like Django or Flask. That's possible, but I think if we have enough >>> web2py-user speakers we can probably get the full 2 hours for web2py talks. >>> That, in my opinion, would be preferable. >>> >>> Let me know what you think. Massimo, if you're here in November, there's >>> enough time to organize something great for that time frame. >>> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
