On Monday, September 15, 2014 11:39:04 PM UTC-7, ghufran syed wrote: > > I am new to web2py, but would be interested in attending, thank you for > taking the initiative to set something up! >
I can vouch that it is worth meeting Massimo and getting his perspective in person. /dps > > On Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:24:53 AM UTC-7, weheh wrote: >> >> Thanks for the replies. I went to a meetup last night for the Bay Area >> python group (not the Bay Area Piggies group), which is one of the largest >> if not the largest python group in the North Bay. I also looked into >> setting up a more permanent meetup group for web2py. Here are my >> conclusions and reasonings about how to go forward with a web2py meetup. >> >> We should leverage the existing python group(s) (including Piggies) to >> spread knowledge of web2py. The python meetup is a large, established group >> with the necessary infrastructure to organize meetups. I think it will be >> hard (for me) to start a web2py group from scratch right now because it >> requires connections to big and interested internet companies with adequate >> facilities and a willingness to host the meetup. >> >> I spoke to the organizers of the python meetup regarding having a web2py >> session. They were open and receptive to the idea. Some of them remembered >> Massimo's talk a couple of years ago. One of the organizers volunteered to >> me that there was some negative sentiment surrounding web2py in the python >> community, but when I dug deeper, it seemed to be rumor and innuendo, >> nothing concrete. Seems like the usual controversy that has dogged web2py >> since day 1 for reasons that are beyond me. >> >> Therefore, Massimo, if you're out here in November, let's have you do a >> short tutorial on web2py (30 to 45 minutes). Then I, and hopefully someone >> else (Jonathan, Joe?), can give testimonial talks on what we like about >> web2py and give concrete examples/demos of how we use it for >> enterprise-grade solutions. I am prepared to put together some examples of >> cool things you can do with components, rpc calls, multiple forms on one >> page, etc. The testimonial talks should also be 30 to 45 minutes so that in >> total, there would be more talks by web2py users than Massimo. This will >> lend greater credibility to the information exchange and be more convincing >> that there is, indeed, a movement. >> >> I would also use the occasion to poll the gathering to see if there's >> enough interest to start our own web2py meetup group. >> >> The organizers said that if I wanted to drive such a meetup for the >> python group that they might also invite competing frameworks to give >> talks, like Django or Flask. That's possible, but I think if we have enough >> web2py-user speakers we can probably get the full 2 hours for web2py talks. >> That, in my opinion, would be preferable. >> >> Let me know what you think. Massimo, if you're here in November, there's >> enough time to organize something great for that time frame. >> > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
