[Baypiggies] Introduction

[Glen Jarvis]

Justin,
    Thanks for introducing yourself. It sounds like you are keen to give a
presentation (which is awesome). Would you like to volunteer to give a
preview of that presentation to the BayPIGgies group?

    I'm not the organizer. However, I know Jim was looking for people to
present more material. If you're interested, I betcha we could work
something out.

    I for one don't know much about the technical side of Zope or Plone.
I've attended about two presentations on Plone total.

Cheers,


Glen

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Justin A Ryan <jryan at fastergreener.net>wrote:

> Well, I didn't mean to introduce myself with a negative comment about a
> potential employer, but there seem to be a lot of troubles on CL with folks
> getting hired as contract-to-perm and not being paid at all after their code
> is deployed, emails drop, etc..  Obviously, we should ask for half up-front,
> but when that's not an option, and you've turned down a lot of gigs on that
> notion, eventually you just have to try something.
>
> Anyway, I joined BayPIGGIES to know more people in the community I've lived
> in for most of the past 5-6 years, so that I wouldn't be limited in future
> career options to just whoever in a given week shows up for a "Python"
> search on CL and to meet new enthusiasts, because Python is rad. ;)
>
> I've been a Python enthusiast since I joined Rackspace's CORE Team around
> 2002, my then-manager and now-friend Nicholas David Borko published a deal
> on our work which was in the Pythonology pamphlet at the first annual
> O'Reilly Open-Source convention, along with four others: Google, ILM, NASA,
> and NIST.  To be fair, however, I owned some of the worst PHP code at
> Rackspace - as maintainer, not original author.
>
> I lost a vote on Python vs. PHP at some point, esp after we tried to use
> Plone to implement a feature for CORE.  I felt that Zope and Plone were the
> sort of techs I wanted to work with, so for that and many other reasons, I
> left and became a Plone / Zope developer, which I've done since 2004.  In
> that time, in addition to developing a multi-tenant offering to hand this
> enterprise-class Web Content Management tech to hundreds of small businesses
> for around the cost of what it would cost one large business to deploy, I
> launched some pretty cool websites as the Tech Lead / Web Producer using
> Plone:
>
>   http://www.siggraph.org/
>   http://www.sigchi.org/ (prototyped and educated, they may have created a
> new site for the final launch)
>   http://www.acm.org/
>   http://montreal.siggraph.org/ (Helped to get LinguaPlone translation
> code into the ACM / SIGGRAPH config, so the site could be in French and
> English)
>
> These days I'm in a FT search, but I've got some options, I'm not just here
> for that.  I just thought I'd introduce myself..
>
> I caught some chatter about the Silicon Valley Code Camp and I wonder if
> there is any history of, or anyone on the list planning to present on Zope
> technology here.  Sounds like a lot of Django excitement, which is cool and
> all Python > Ruby IMO, unless you enjoy the alien dialect of Perl over
> Python's nearly-pseudocode syntax, which I just don't.
>
> There are a ton of options for using Zope tech, some of which, like
> repoze.bfg, make Zope's default, if awesome, object storage optional,
> allowing to map views into a dictionary based on paths.  I'm not a
> particular fan of this Rails-style approach, however, and I think that there
> are a lot of marketing problems for Zope.
>
> I know that at least in the past, there have been some Plone and Zope folks
> in BayPIGGIES, so I didn't want to stomp anyone else's presentation, but I'm
> an experienced instructor and have gone too long without presenting on
> something.  PyCon never seems to happen for me, but something CalTrain-able
> from SF for a weekend is probably an option.
>
> I look forward to meeting some of you at future events!
>
> Best,
>
> Justin
>
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