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How to sell Django
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Who are you?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Frank WilesPeter BaumgartnerJames TauberSteve Holden
What tools are available to sell Django?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: whydjango.com and other forthcoming advocacy sites
How do you get customers to stop
throwing good money after bad efforts?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: Open source means you don’t have to fill out budget requests.
Since they can be in short supply, how do you hire or
explain how you will get more Django developers?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: Headhunters, mailing list, linkedin, training. You don’t have to look for Django developers. Django devs are Python devs. And Python devs are just smart people.
How do you fight FUD spread by people who stand to lose
from Django implementations?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: Be nice, don’t argue, show the numbers, transparency.
How do you sell Django to investors?
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: Productivity, more than the sum of the parts.
A quick success story
Thursday, September 9, 2010
My response: 2 months and 4 developers compared to 7 months, 30 developers, and 300 million dollars.Had to get past IT department, Enterprise Architecture council. Used loopholes and their own vocabulary. Can’t bring in new tools but say you “extend this tool that is part of Linux”.
