On Aug 22, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Noah Gift wrote:
> I think the main thing holding Pylons marketing back is a figurehead > who fits one or all of these characteristics: > > 1. Read "The Fountainhead" and actually took it seriously. > 2. Ego and belief in core technology based on a fictional reality. > 3. Extreme desire for fame, popularity, and acceptance. > 4. Core developers create google alerts for "Pylons" and then get > drunk every weekend and trash people who show up in their google > alert and appear critical of "Pylons". > Ah, no wonder we're not the most popular Python web framework The closest you'll get is #4: I know Ben and I try to monitor the blogs with IceRocket/Gogole Alerts, and also monitor twitter keywords via an app like TweetDeck, so we can chime in with polite suggestions. I'll admit that some of those suggestsions are less polite than others, and possibly posted while under the influence. I consider the former to be more 'schoolings' than 'trashings', though. I'm not sure we would have thought of doing that had we not noticed certain Django evangelists doing it a long time ago. The Pylons marketing effort could use more of those -- Philip Jenvey --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
