On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Iain Duncan<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Perhaps Pylons' greatest asset is influence rather than popularity. >> It's gaining respect and market share among those who know a lot about >> Python frameworks. (There's a selling point for newbies.) It may >> become the "central" framework in the way Debian has become central >> among Linux distributors. It may not be the most popular, but it's >> central because it's vendor neutral (doesn't favor one company over >> another the way RedHat or Fedora do), and forms a reference >> implementation. Pylons' use of Paste, Beaker, Routes, etc, validate >> those libraries and has encouraged other frameworks to adopt them. >> Pylons' smallness makes it nimble. We can use ToscaWidgets without >> being tied down to it. We can take our time evaluating AuthKit vs >> repoze.who/what. We can become the first adopter of whatever future >> library may appear, and prove its (un)usefulness to the wider >> Python-web world. Other frameworks reject Pylons' design decisions, >> but they keep looking at Pylons for ideas, to see what works. So >> Pylons has an influence much wider than its userbase. > > IMHO, the above is exactly the kind of thing we should have more of on > the Pylons website for marketing! A realistic analysis of where Pylons > shines and how it has or has not been important.
This is where you as a marketer come in. I would not have been able to articulate this without you leading the discussion and making me realize it. Added it to the Talking Points page. -- Mike Orr <[email protected]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
