[python-advocacy] Proposal for Monthly podcast series

[Michael Foord]

Laura Creighton wrote:
>> Nabu  http://furius.ca/nabu/
>> http://xmpppy.sourceforge.net/  xmpppy: the jabber python project
>> PyBlosxom http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/
>> Freevo http://freevo.sourceforge.net/
>> Crunchy http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/
>> PIL http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil
>> Pyjamas  http://pyjamas.pyworks.org/
>> Burn http://www.bigpaul.org/burn/
>> Luma  http://luma.sourceforge.net
>> gajim  http://www.gajim.org
>> GmailFS  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GmailFS
>> paramiko  http://www.lag.net/paramiko/
>> Mechanize http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
>> Mutagen http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet/wiki/Development/Mutagen
>> psycopg 2  http://www.initd.org/tracker/psycopg/wiki/PsycopgTwo
>> pyinotify http://pyinotify.sourceforge.net/
>>     
>
> There are very few of these projects I either know about nor have
> any current interest in knowing about.  Perhaps this means that
> you are a better magnet-for-cool than I am.  If so, these podcasts
> should be a sure hit.  But if not, perhaps we should ask on
> comp.lang.python for suggestions on what to produce.  
>   
>

Agreed. :-)

The concept is great but the choice of projects seems 'esoteric'. Is it 
a deliberate choice to not stick to mainstream projects.

My *personal* suggestions would be (some of which are included in your 
list):

* docutils
* PIL
* wxPython (possibly and/or Dabo)
* SciPy
* matplotlib
* twisted
* crunchy
* Pyjamas
* Django (Turbgears and Pylons are both great projects and *equally* 
deserving of coverage - but would this be too much of a web-app focus)
* IPython
* py2exe
* pygame
* pywin32
* setuptools
* SQLObject or SQLAlchemy
* Mechanize
* BeautifulSoup

There's a few anyway...

I would even include ctypes, ElementTree and sqlite - even though they 
are now part of the standard library.

Oh, and there is always Zope. ;-)

All the best,

Michael Foord