On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:12:26 -0500, Todd Grimason wrote: > In addition to Ben's good points above, I'd like to confirm/clarify > a few details: > > - is the full name 'Webware' or 'Webware for Python'?
When I started Webware, there were already other Webwares (but none of them were app servers). There was a column, webware.com, a non-hosted webware.org, the generic term, etc. I made the official, public name "Webware for Python" to avoid stepping on toes. Plus Python rocks and Webware certainly feels pretty Pythonic since it is straightforward and practical. > - does any of this effort require approval from any particular > people? from Chuck for example? or is this group consensus? this is > an area that often seems to trip up these types of efforts, so it'd > be good to know ahead of time... I'm comfortable that if we want to revamp the web page or have a logo, that we decide as a group either as vote by the developers or by the entire community. On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:43:41 -0600, Jason Hildebrand wrote: > AFAIK the official name is "Webware for Python", to disambiguate > from other uses of the term "Webware" or "WebWare" on the internet. Bingo. > Good question. I don't know if Chuck considers himself to be the > Webware BDFL -- I'll let him speak to that. :) Over time we've naturally evolved into an oligarchy of developers where I'm no longer "laying it down" code- and policy-wise like I did in the first year. And so far, so good! I'm comfortable with people taking initiatives like these and following through. If you're getting consensus from Webware developers like Jason, Ian and Geoff, consider it blessed. I think the oligarchy can work for most, maybe all, things. I won't be flexing my BDFL title unless some conflict arises or you start embedding Perl in the source base. :-) > My take on the situation is that most developers are very busy and > don't have huge amounts of time to invest in the project right now, > but would be very happy to see a new website. Bingo. Regarding money, we can almost certainly get hosting for free from somebody and it looks like a somebody has already appeared. But we could also use money to run ads on SF.net and other places to see if we can ramp up our user base which inevitably leads to good things. Just a thought. -Chuck -- http://ChuckEsterbrook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
