<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 5:47 AM, Aahz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aahz@pythoncraft.com">aahz@pythoncraft.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010, Minesh B. Amin wrote:<br>
><br>
> As a follow-up to the well-received talks at BayPIGgies (June + July<br>
> 2010), MBA Sciences is pleased to announce a complimentary class on<br>
> SPM.Python scheduled for Monday, August 9 (7PM - 9PM) at the Mountain<br>
> View Community Center.<br>
> --<br>
> MBA Sciences, Inc (<a href="http://www.mbasciences.com/" target="_blank">www.mbasciences.com</a>)<br>
<br>
Because I've been too busy to attend BayPIGgies meetings, I didn't pay<br>
much attention earlier, but I'm a bit concerned that we devoted two<br>
meetings to a single commercial product, especially one that doesn't<br>
offer an Open Source license and doesn't list prices on its website.<br>
(Let alone my bias against websites that require JavaScript to view<br>
them.)<br>
<br>
Part of the reason I haven't offered to repeat my OSCON talk about the<br>
work I'm doing at <a href="http://egnyte.com/" target="_blank">egnyte.com</a> is because I think that BayPIGgies should<br>
have a strong bias in favor of Open Source because Python itself is Open<br>
Source.<br>
<br>
What do other people think? Did people who attended the meetings about<br>
SPM feel that they got enough technical value even if they never use SPM?<br>
--<br>
Aahz (<a href="mailto:aahz@pythoncraft.com">aahz@pythoncraft.com</a>) <*> <a href="http://www.pythoncraft.com/" target="_blank">http://www.pythoncraft.com/</a><br>
<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I definitely lean towards FLOSS topics.<br><br>I think some commercial software topics are OK, as long as they are relevant to Python developers. Pure product pitches aren't going to cut it for me, and if there's a FLOSS alternative, I'd prefer to hear about that in detail.<br>
<br>When I talked about the SnapLogic project back in 2007, my exchanges with Jim on the draft presentation concentrated on Python experiences, not a product pitch (even though the code was GPL.)<br><br>Minesh did a good job of balancing things, but I would have loved to get into the 'secret sauce' behind the scenes, and proprietary source makes that impossible. Parallelism + Python are an interesting enough topic for me that I was still interested. Glen provided working decorator code, with all the behind the scenes magic, much more useful in day to day work. <br>
<br>mike<br><br><br>