[python-advocacy] Would You Write Python Articles or Screencasts for Money?

[Steve Holden]

Facundo Batista wrote:
> 2007/4/24, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com>:
> 
>> and I was more looking for a way to reward authors of excellence, as
>> judged by some subset of the Python community - this might have to be
>> the PSF membership given the impracticality of running a meaningful poll
>> with a larger set of voters.
> 
> Why? Because of spammers and/or false voters?
> 
Among other complex possibilities, yes.

> When I first read about this, I thought about a web page where anybody
> could "propose" articles for voting, and anybody could vote them.
> Monthly, an award goes for the top 1, and that article goes out from
> the poll.
> 
I think allowing anyone to *propose* the articles is a good idea. Where 
PSF money is concerned I am less happy about the prospect of anyone 
being allowed to vote. Particularly more than once :-)

> Why can't that be done?
> 
I don't necessarily believe that articles should stay on the list until 
they win an award - I'd like to see a regular cycle. There'd be nothing 
to stop the same article being proposed in several cycles, but repeated 
failure to win an award would definitely send a message to an article's 
sponsor(s), who would eventually stop proposing them.

Is monthly too often?

> Other point: what happens with all the non-english articles? Other categories?
> 
There I'd have to call on the help of foreign Python user groups, and 
that might require more in the way of formal affiliation than the PSF 
has currently implemented. While I am not xenophobic I simply don't have 
the language skills to evaluate publications in other languages than 
English. But we certainly shouldn't forget them, and it might be nice to 
encourage translation efforts in both directions.
> 
>> There are many other possibilities too. What about an award for "most
>> helpful responses on c.l.py" over some period? I think one of the
> 
> How do you evaluate such thing? I think this is too complicated...
> 
You are possibly right.

regards
  Steve
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