On 4/29/05, Greg Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Greg Wilson wrote: > >>I think Ian Bicking or Michelle Levesque would be good choices for the > >>role... > > > mike bayer wrote: > > Michelle is currently a computer science undergrad at the university of > > Toronto. Are you saying all the people with many years of real-world > > experience building dynamic web applications and sites for the corporate > > world and the educational world should be forced to obey the technical > > direction of a college student with no professional experience ? > > Greg Wilson wrote: > Nope, I didn't say that at all (and I don't think that putting words in > people's mouths helps this discussion at all). This is open source: no > one can "force" anyone to do anything, not even Guido. I mentioned Ian > and Michelle because they know the players, have worked with most of the > candidate systems, and have demonstrated that they're willing to listen > as well as talk; there are undoubtedly other people who could "play > Guido" just as well. > > Thanks, > Greg > > p.s. Ka-Ping Yee was "just an undergrad" when he started contributing to > Python; I don't remember anyone thinking that ought to disqualify him.
I have a lot of respect for Michelle, but she has a *long* way to before she can say she's worked with most of the candidate systems. There so *many* of them! Best Regards, -jj -- I have decided to switch to Gmail, but messages to my Yahoo account will still get through. _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list [email protected] Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
