Justin James and I presented our talk “Plone and Django: Comparing Tools for Python Web Developers” at Seattle Plone last night to an enthused audience.
Most were familiar with just one platform or the other, so it was a great opportunity to ask questions and learn about the strengths of each platform.
Hello Brian,
Thanks a lot for the slides, they’re great! I’m actually quite keen to reuse them for our Python User Group (http://www.nzpug.org). Just wondering if you’ve got a video of the presentation?
Thanks,
Tim
Thanks Tim,
One of the nice things about this type of talk is that it created a lot of dialogue and discussion around both platforms (since most knew one platform or the other, but not necessarily both) and was a chance for two diverse Python communities to learn from each other. So give yourself plenty of time for Q&A
I look forward to hearing how this goes at your meeting!
(Sorry, we don’t have any video)
Hi there,
We’re just in the midst of such an evaluation so your presentation was quite helpful. One of the issues we’re struggling with is to add a collaborative nature, social components to a Plone site we presently have.
Lots of crazy, interactive, collaborative, sharing ideas.. and we feel that Plone seems to move more in the more rigid, top down: content manager + large organization + many contributors working in fixed workflows + large amount of documents type of structure.
What I missed in your evaluation was a side-by-side type of SWOT analysis: what does Plone do better than Django and what not.. so one can better match needs versus the choice of a framework or a CMS.