Matt, Between you and Russ I see what you mean. I will contact Tom and Venkatraman regarding their concept to see how I can help. I am not proficient with django's paradigm yet, but I can get better in the process.
Thanks, Richard Shebora On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Matt Hoskins <skaffe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Richard, > > That is where most people who are looking for something *in that > space* look first - i.e. they have a set of requirements where those > platforms are a good fit for what they're trying to do, but it isn't > the only space. Those people aren't the people who pay my wages at > present because, as I said, I'm currently not building applications > where any of those would be a good fit :). I originally selected > Django because I was looking for something that was specifically not > in the space that, say, drupal is in as although some of the > facilities it and other vaguely similar frameworks provide could have > been of use, a lot of what they provided wasn't a good fit or was just > irrelevant and if using them I would have been forced into doing > things a less-than-ideal way. > > As you got more specific in this thread your approach seemed to be > orientating towards "selling" Django by "selling" Django-based > applications of a certain type (a bit like "selling" Zope by "selling" > Plone, perhaps?) and thus the path to that being to sort out those > applications. I'm not saying it's not a valid approach (having great > re-usable applications is no bad thing), I'm just saying it's not the > only approach and that the space you talk about is not the only > requirement space where Django is useful. > > Regards, > Matt > > On Jun 17, 3:06 pm, Richard Shebora <sheb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> @Matt >> >> You are correct. The "drupal/joomla/plone/wordpress space" does exist >> and it is where most people (non-developers) look first. These are >> the people who need to perceive django in a more positive light if the >> goal is to increase django market share. They are the people who hire >> you and I. If not, it's a moot point. >> > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
