[myhdl-list] MyHDL marketing at Python Conferences

[Christopher L. <loz...@fr...>]

Thanks to Jan L, and friends for the presence in Cordoba.  And for the 
wonderful report and marketing advice.

I had thought that we should be exhibiting at FPGA shows.   Those are 
the guys who need better tools.  But the results are underwhelming.  It 
is better than nothing, But I now believe that does not lead to a big 
jump in users.   MyHDL is really ready for the python conferences.  I 
assume that there are way more python developers than FPGA developers.  
And I believe that MyHDL makes them comfortable doing hardware, whereas 
it makes the hard core FPGA engineers uncomfortable.    So big benefit 
to python developers, a risk is perceived to FPGA engineers.  So perhaps 
our efforts should go into the python conferences rather than  into the 
FPGA conferences.  Live and learn.

So here is the list of python conferences.
http://www.pycon.org/

I invite you all to present MyHDL at these conferences.  Either as free 
papers, booths, or paid tutorials.  Whatever works for you.  Whatever 
the conference allows.

It has been suggested I am just a marketing person.  Do a search on 
Google for "python resume" and my django job board shows up on the first 
page.  My Zope job board is way larger.   Or download my iPhone app 
http://TextFaster.com

It has been said that I do not understand hardware development.  That is 
true.  I am learning.  I will get it.  I always get my software to 
work.   I am comfortable making mistakes.   Please be patient.

I will get to being a MyHDL developer, but there are other more 
important things to do first.  Like build the community.   This is a 
long term project for me.

My belief in MyHDL is that the core is good, but way more classes and 
test suites for those classes are needed.   Easier and more fun, and 
more needed, to grow the community than to write them myself.   We tried 
marketing in the FPGA community, and certainly that brought this mailing 
list to life, but it is still a fragile community.  More is needed.

So my attention turns to the larger python community.

On a related note, you may know this, it turns out that for a while AMD 
has had an effort to ship FPGA's on the mother board.  Intel is now 
doing the same.  So these devices are really becoming main stream, as 
everyone starts to realize the gate inefficiency of traditional 
microprocessors.   So this stuff is going mainstream, and by marketing 
to the python community, we are on the right mainstream path.   I think 
there will be a flood of python developers getting into FPGA 
development.  But then I am always an optimist.

And if that does not work,  we will try something different.

Comments appreciated.

-- 
Regards
Christopher Lozinski

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