After learning from Jeff Rush that no one had volunteered (yet) to organize a panel on Web technologies, I stepped up to the plate. I've also submitted a talk proposal about twill/scotch/figleaf and (with Grig) I'm going to submit a proposal for a testing tutorial, so attendees may well get tired of hearing my voice. I would be happy if someone else would volunteer to run the panel, hint, hint...

The panel I'm planning to organize is the Web Frameworks panel. The idea is to get a few authors/maintainers of Web frameworks up on a podium and ask them questions about their framework and its relations to other frameworks. A few questions are already up on the Web Frameworks panel page. It sounds like we might be able to score a lunch slot, too, given sufficient effort.

I must admit to having a complete lapse of creativity at the moment, so I'm hoping that I can solicit a few things from the Python community:

• what web frameworks are you interested in seeing represented? (and who should I contact as the maintainer?)
• what questions would you like to have asked?
• what format do you think the panel should be? Pre-selected questions, open floor, etc.?

Let me know...

thanks,

--titus

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Legacy Comments

Posted by Ian Bicking on 2006-10-24 at 15:38.

Re: format -- I think pre-selected questions, presented to the
panelists ahead of time.  I hate panels where everyone just dorks
around given questions that aren't very interesting (over-specific or
over-general) or require too much thought to answer on the fly and in
a concise manner (leading to pithy or babbly answers).

Posted by Titus Brown on 2006-10-24 at 15:42.

I sort of agree -- but I thought the Steve Holden interview of Bram
Cohen (last year) was a bit too staged.  It would be interesting to go
for a mix  of preselected and last minute.  Hmm, I see some
opportunities for Web tech coming in ;)    --titus

Posted by Doug Napoleone on 2006-10-24 at 18:54.

The requirements for the Panel discussion include having the outline
(questions and bullets) per determined as part of the proposal/review
process.    The full instructions are on the Call For Proposals page:
<a href="http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/CallForProposals">http://us.pycon.
org/TX2007/CallForProposals</a>      'A panel discussion is one in
which a group of people discuss a list of pre-determined topics or
bullet points.'    A list of discussion topics like:    o describe the
framework and the key problems it solves in 60 seconds or less.    o
What are the rationals behind the different template systems:
Zope/Plone ZPT (XML based)    Django (customizable designer centric)
Pyjamas    CherryPy    Myghty (a programming language in its own
right)    o To CMS or not to CMS?    o mixing the frameworks    (talk
of TG and Django merging, Plone + PHP was a major bullet at last years
Plone keynote, etc)    o cross pollination between the frameworks
(features are being borrowed from other projects, there are developers
working on contributing to TG, Django, and Plone at the same time...)
These topics will definatly NOT limit the discussion, each could have
a 1/2 hour devoted to them, (well except the first one).    As for the
frameworks:    Zope    Plone    Turbo Gears (TG)    Django    Paste

Posted by Marc Fargas on 2006-10-24 at 19:16.

+1 for Django (www.djangoproject.com)

Posted by Titus Brown on 2006-10-24 at 19:31.

I suspect (with cause) that PyCon is willing to be flexible...
Certainly those frameworks (with the possible exception of Paste --
have to figure out how that categorizes, and talk with Ian a bit) all
qualify.

Posted by Michael Watkins on 2006-10-24 at 20:37.

If discussing "What are the rationals behind the different template
systems", it would make sense to add QP/Quixote to the mix, since
their approach to "templating" is rather the inverse of most.

Posted by matt harrison on 2006-10-25 at 11:21.

Don't forget pylons....

Posted by C Bidlack on 2006-10-25 at 15:25.

My company played with all the frameworks mentioned above (including
Pylons) and we use (or have used) Zope and Plone internally. We are
currently building a hosted version of some of our technology - that
requires a very rich UI. Our prototype is being built with Quixote and
JQuery with other components being selected soon. So far that's
turning out to be a great choice.    One possibility is to view this
from the end goal perspective. What type of web enabled system is
being built. How do you select the components (or frameworks)
accordingly. What are some "patterns of design and/or use" that others
can benefit from.