Speaking of Slack, what’s the info and how could I join?

Bert

> On Dec 26, 2014, at 15:55, Paul Everitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Dec 26, 2014, at 9:50 AM, Blaise Laflamme <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> You're right about this issue and I think time has come to do something.
>> 
>> Me and Paul started some efforts on this and never finished it but we were 
>> on a good track I think. What I suggested him lately was to streamline and 
>> narrow the original scope and start work on unifying what we have.
>> 
>> For sure I need to finish the brand stuff I already started and spread it 
>> across what we already have online but we also need to rethink how the 
>> information is structured and how we relate everything.
>> 
>> I propose to move this discussion over slack :)
> 
> Sounds fun. Let’s create a #pylons there..oh wait, we don’t want to 
> perpetuate the word “Pylons”…oh wait, we want to reinforce it as an umbrella. 
> Core dump. :)
> 
> I think a Slack channel would be good.
> 
> —Paul
> 
>> 
>> On Friday, December 26, 2014 1:56:07 AM UTC-5, Sontek wrote:
>> There is a lot of confusion around the "Pylons" organization and I think in 
>> general our http://www.pylonsproject.org/ website doesn't help alleviate any 
>> of that confusion.  For example you can't even go to 
>> http://www.pylonsproject.org/projects and get a list of Pylons projects, 
>> this just redirects to Pyramid's about page.
>> 
>> I feel we should decide which are "official" pylons projects and make it 
>> extremely obvious which ones fall under this umbrella.  Off the top of my 
>> head the following are ones probably worth listing under this umbrella:
>> 
>> https://github.com/Pylons/colander
>> https://github.com/Pylons/deform
>> https://github.com/Pylons/substanced
>> https://github.com/Pylons/venusian
>> https://github.com/Pylons/waitress
>> https://github.com/Pylons/webtest
>> https://github.com/Pylons/webob
>> 
>> Now they all already live under the /Pylons/ organization on github but 
>> there are plenty of less "complete" projects underneath that organization 
>> that makes it hard to track down which are ready for prime time.
>> 
>> The other big issue is a lot of these live under their domain, under 
>> pythonpaste.org, or don't have a website outside of readthedocs at all. 
>> 
>> I propose that we create subdomains for each of them and make sure to be 
>> consistent on including a footer that mentions that they are pylons 
>> projects.  This would be similar to how the Apache organization manages 
>> their projects:
>> 
>> http://kafka.apache.org/
>> https://spark.apache.org/
>> http://cassandra.apache.org/
>> 
>> and how pocoo does it:
>> 
>> http://flask.pocoo.org/
>> http://click.pocoo.org/
>> http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/
>> 
>> It would probably also make sense to try to maintain a more consistent brand 
>> across each projects website as well. Allowing each project to have some 
>> personality of their own will be important by keeping a standard color 
>> scheme and layout would help people recognize a pylons project immediately.
>> 
>> What do you wonderful humans think?
>> 
>> - sontek
>> 
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