[python-advocacy] Proposal for Monthly podcast series

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 09:44:45AM +0200, Laura Creighton wrote:
> So, better to make a plan.  Either a plan for selecting programs,
> or a plan for allowing rebuttals, or allowing other people to make
> podcasts too -- or _something_.

This is putting too much of a burden on the people making the podcast.
People can post anything they like on a web page without being
required to support comments or linking to rebuttals, and I don't see
why podcasts are any different.  I'll occasionally investigate some
library or tool and write up a few notes in case someone else finds
them useful some day -- the last one was
<http://www.amk.ca/diary/2007/04/rough_notes_python_and_dbus.html> --
and this podcast idea seems similar -- recording commentary in case
it's useful to a future reader/listener.

Note that a Ruby book just came out (Practical Ruby Gems" --
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10261) that's a
similar idea, touring some modules on the Ruby equivalent of PyPI and
showing how to parse HTML, CSV, etc.  Interestingly, the web
application chapter uses a framework called Camping, not the
omnipresent Rails.

--amk