Once in a while, you come across a a fantastic information piece that’s top-notch in presentation. This guy had me giggling at 1 in the morning, and I learned stuff from that post (which is why I was up in the first place).
You know, all this talk about communities and getting along got me thinking about something. By the way, that segue was sponsored anonymously. I would have to say that the community that really impresses me is Django. Their user mailing list is just top-notch as is their irc channel (#django on freenode). There’s a proliferation of blogs and sites out there with helpful guides and tips, and everyone (bar none) is always helpful.
Maybe the Django devs see it, maybe not, but from the outside, it’s loud and clear: the community they’ve built around django is a great community to participate in.
I’m building a site for my wife to use at her work. It’s basically to rehash the entire thing and put a CMS around it and make it easily manageable, etc etc. I’ll put the code up once I’m done for people to criticise and critique. No telling when that will happen, but I’d like to take this opportunity to thank: praetorian and tomaw on IRC, Chris Long on irc and email, Andy Dustman and Malcolm Tredinnick and drushell on the mailing lists, and wow, everyone on the irc channel and the blog sites (way too many to name, because it’s like everybody, basically).
Thanks for the kind words! There’s a lot about Django to be proud of, but the thing that gives me the warm fuzzies is our awesome community of users and developers. I’m extremely glad you feel the same way!