Re: Cheetah at PyCon Atlanta 2010

2009/11/17  <[email protected]>:
> Long-time users might be aware that Cheetah was originally introduced at
> PyCon10 by Mike, Tavis and Ian.
>
> As I look over my refactoring work for Python 3 support and the progress we've made over
> the past few months, I'm wondering if it would be worth "re-introducing"
> Cheetah at PyCon 2010 this upcoming February in Atlanta. I lament that Cheetah
> has seemingly fallen out of favor among newer Python developers (Django and the
> Google App Engine aren't doing us any favors) but I would like to start to turn
> that around.
>
> I have a couple of questions for you, delightful members of the Cheetah
> community:
>   * Talk proposals are closed currently, but would anybody be interested in
>     participating in a development sprint and/or Cheetah meetup during the
>     sprint days?
>   * Suggestions on how to improve Cheetah's interestingness to the newer crowd
>     of (primarily web) developers using Python and other templating systems?
>   * Anybody using Cheetah at a corporate level that would consider helping
>     with airfare costs from SFO to ATL? (have to ask ;))
>
> I've not ordered a plane ticket or reserved a hotel room yet, I'm still
> determining whether PyCon will be worth the ~$1000 it will cost me to get
> there, in addition to the week of vacation time. I'd love to have a good reason
> to justify the expense ;)
>
> Interested in hearing how many other Cheetah folks are planning to attend

Hello Robert,

Silly question, did you ask Slide?
-- 
Jean-Baptiste Quenot

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