[Zope-dev] A note on the PyCon Program committee.

[Carlos de la Guardia]

I also proposed a Grok tutorial, but I've had no word about its
acceptance or declination. My zope talk where I would discuss Grok,
buildout and zope.component was rejected.

Carlos de la Guardia

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Chris McDonough <chrism at plope.com> wrote:
> So were any Zope talks/tutorials accepted?
>
> FWIW, Tres had a BFG talk accepted, and Carlos had a BFG talk and a BFG
> tutorial accepted.  I proposed a talk about profiling that didn't make it.
>
> The TG guys had one talk accepted.
>
> Not sure about Pylons.
>
> I assume Django had a bunch, but I don't know for sure.
>
> - C
>
>
> Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> Chris McDonough wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> 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.
>>
>> I'm very much in agreement on this. Blogging is another way to reach
>> out. Reach out and interact.
>>
>> It's indeed hard work to do this right. I am sitting on a few pieces of
>> software that are either interesting to non-Zope people or in fact
>> directly usable, but I haven't had the time yet to blog about them. I
>> intend to start blogging on a more regular basis again soon.
>>
>>> It's "who you know", not "what you know" unfortunately, even in open source, as
>>> much as we like to believe in meritocracy.
>>
>> That's true too. I'm a natural noise-maker, and I discovered that while
>> as a result of this I embarrass myself in public on a regular basis, it
>> also means a lot of people know who I am. That's a good thing.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Martijn
>>
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