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]>

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