On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:26 AM, finn <finngruwierlar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have with interest followed the thread "Seeking Django vs. Joomla > comparison", and it has inspired me to start this new thread. > > I consider myself a Python/Django programmer, and I do so because my > experiences with a number of programming languages, CMS'es and web > frameworks has lead me to believe that Python and Django is simply the > better choice from a technical perspective. I am not a fanatic and I > won't say that everything else sucks, but honestly - if you have the > choice between a better and a no-quite-so-good technology, you will of > course want to use the better one, despite that the other would work, > too. > > Now to the problem: a lot of people who needs websites have heard of > Drupal or Joomla! or WordPress or PHP. But NOBODY has EVER heard about > Django. If somebody suggests that they make their website with > something called "Django" then this "Django-thing" must at least have > some reasons to why it exists and why one should prefer it over well- > known solutions. Consequently, people come the this discussion group > and ask: "What are the reasons that you think your product is > better?", and the answer they get is: "our product cannot be compared > with the others because you cannot compare apples with oranges." This > means that people who where willing to listen to a good sales talk > leaves the shop in a hurry because the salesman obviously didn't want > to sell anything at all. Which leaves me and a lot of other Django > entusiasts with not so much work as we would as we would like to have. > > I think that we - the Django community - could do a better job selling > our product, and I'd like to volunteer in this work.
I completely agree. We've relied on our technical merit to get 'sales', and while that has served us well so far, there is a lot of potential to promote Django further. > I just don't know > how to do it. One idea that has been bounced around many times is to start an 'enterprise.djangoproject.com' companion site for djangoproject.com -- a site that makes the case for Django in a way that isn't technical, but focuses on the business case. This could include content such as: * Case studies * 'Sales Brochures' suitable to give to a boss who might be considering technical options * Lists of contractors that will provide support when things go wrong * Lists of training opportunities There are at least three subtasks in this: 1. We need to actually design, build and deploy the site 2. We need to gathering the initial content for the site 3. Long term, we need to curate the content, including moderation of case studies submitted by users, and direct solicitation of new case studies. If this sounds like a way you might like to contribute, then the first step is to turn this skeleton proposal into something more concrete. I don't have any particularly strong ideas, other than "it must be awesome" -- here's the opportunity for you (or anyone else in the community that wants to help out) to wow us. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
