Hi Devs,
One thing that came out of the Django Meet-up at OSCON was someone
asking for advice on how to convince their superiors that Django is a
good choice. This obviously depends on the needs of the individual or
shop, but I was wondering if we could add a section to the Wiki for
success stor
Hi Rob --
This sounds like a *brilliant* idea. Since Django's still got a foot
in the "unproven technology" category, anyone trying to convince
management will likely benefit from some success stories and other
related "marketing" material.
Now, there's one small wrinkle that may prove unfortuna
> Now, there's one small wrinkle that may prove unfortunate for you: in
> the Django community, it's pretty much established practice to equate
> good ideas with a volunteer offer. By this precedent, I do believe
> you've volunteered to gather this material .
>
> Seriously, though -- if it's somet
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 20:10 -0700, Rob Hudson wrote:
> > Now, there's one small wrinkle that may prove unfortunate for you: in
> > the Django community, it's pretty much established practice to equate
> > good ideas with a volunteer offer. By this precedent, I do believe
> > you've volunteered to
Great idea!
> 1) Set up a page on the wiki with instructions and suggested outline
> of a success story.
> 2) Post a "Call for Success Stories" somehow, maybe via the weekly updates.
> 3) Keep an eye on the page and linked pages.
4) Politely ask some of the big Django sites if they could answer
the page and linked pages.
>
> If you're going to do it via the wiki, you'll need to add
>
> 4) Keep a close eye on each page to avoid spam edits.
That's actually what I meant in #3. By "linked pages" I was thinking
the "Django Success Stories&quo
On 7/29/07, Simon G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 4) Politely ask some of the big Django sites if they could answer 5 or
> 6 questions (e.g. pownce, tabblo, etc)
>
> If you get a few "big" names in there, then others should follow.
What would the 5 or 6 questions be?
-Rob
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On Jul 30, 4:38 am, "Rob Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What would the 5 or 6 questions be?
>
> -Rob
Hmm... off the top of my head -
1) Why did you choose Django?
2) What were the other alternatives?
3) What benefits did you get from Django?
4) What problems did you run into? is there
On Jul 29, 2:54 pm, Simon Greenhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm... off the top of my head -
[snip]
Cool, I've included those as an example of more details.
Feel free to update the following if anyone feels it needs it...
http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoSuccessStories
Now we just n
