jeudi 14 juillet 2005

Chris McDonough's Zopecast #1 I just listened to the first of hopefully many installments of Chris' podcast on things from the world of Zope. I think it was perfectly executed, and I primarily mean, it wasn't overdone. It felt like I was in the same room, chillin' out on the sofa, listening to Chris and Tres (then Philipp) have a conversation about things in the world of Zope. As other web projects have recently shown, storytelling matters as much as software, perhaps more. Chris previously posted a series of charts showing the Zope community's health. Good software will keep the users and developers that Zope has, but brand and storytelling are required to get new ones attracted in the first place. Things like Chris's podcast are energetic, new-style, BS-free ways of storytelling, rather than the suit-driven blather of normal marketing that Barry Reicherter previously critiqued so well. Well done, Chris, hope there's more to come! 2:30:02 PM   comment []

Python gaining steam in Microsoft Nice article about how Python for .NET is doing inside Redmond: "It's not often you see Microsoft adopting a language from the world of Open Source Software (OSS), but IronPython is just such a project and has gathered a growing following among several groups working on Longhorn and associated technologies." 2:05:54 PM   comment []

Upcoming talks: EuroOSCON (NL) and ICCBSS (Orlando) O'Reilly asked me to give a (brief) keynote at EuroOSCON, kind of a mini-keynote. That's in the Netherlands in October. I'll give a shortened (no pun intended) version of the standard open source business model sing-a-long. The ICCBSS conference in Orlando, Feb 2006, has asked me to give the speech as a keynote. Perhaps we can schedule some kind of sprint-like-thing around this, focused on storytelling. 1:26:44 PM   comment []