[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page
Ronald Oussoren
ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Sat Feb 11 21:39:47 CET 2006
On 9-feb-2006, at 22:14, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>
>> I've got a great deal of respect and appreciation for those, like Bob
>> and Ronald, working hard on advancing the technology pieces. Great
>> work, just what we all need! But unless there's some effective
>> delivery vehicle for getting that work to the customer, much of it
>> will be wasted.
>
> It's not a waste because the work done helps me accomplish what I
> need to do. I do it because I need it to be done, not because I want
> to help people. I do a lot of things to help people, but that's
> rarely ever my primary motivation in the context of open source.
>
> There's an open invitation for someone to coddle new users and
> maintain a straightforward web presence. We all know that it would
> be beneficial, and it's time for someone to step up and do it
> already. It's been discussed ad nauseam for the past few years, but
> talking apparently doesn't make anything happen.
I want to second that :-). I work on Python on OSX because I use Python
on OSX. To be blunt, I don't really care about end-users beyond what I'm
doing now.
Ronald
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