2009/11/2 Chris McDonough <chrism@plope.com>:
Another way to avoid this in the future besides joining the committee would be for notable members of the Zope community to reach out on a regular (daily) basis to other Python-using communities. Offer them well-documented software, visit their sprints and conferences, try their alphas, join their IRC channels, participate in their maillists and so on. It's harder to do intercommunity politics daily in this way as opposed to "facing off" yearly, but it will have a higher, more lasting payoff.
That's a good point. We do visit "their" conferences though, since that is to a large extent the PyCons. Only Django has their own conference afaik. But just as they can learn from the Zope community we obviously can learn from them. And a good example of this was Wicherts talk "Lessons from other frameworks" on this years PloneConf, which I unfortunately missed, as I had another talk at the same time). -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64