In case you missed the press release, we announced our Gold Sponsorship of the Twisted Software Foundation. We think this is important because as CTO Erik Dahl said:

“At Zenoss our software lives and breathes Twisted, and as a commercial open source company we feel it’s important to give back to the projects we use.”

It also helps when they share our vision for open source in the enterprise and provide the tools to make it happen.

“As early as two years ago, many people still questioned the use of open source software in the enterprise,” said Glyph Lefkowitz, founder of Twisted. “Forward-thinking companies like Zenoss are proving that through collaboration and community involvement open source software is not only ready for, but can excel in, an enterprise environment. The Twisted project enables companies like Zenoss to benefit from the collective input of a highly technical and savvy community.”

Zenoss is grateful for the support of our partners, community and customers and we’re always eager to help those who help us. Thanks again for your support.

Sean Reifschneider of tummy.com (Twisted and PyCon sponsor) started up Front Range Pythoneers here in Colorado about a million years ago. Last year at PyCon 2006 Jim Baker talked about breathing life back into it… and he has. Today was not only proof of this (and my first meeting) but yet more validation of the local python community: enthusiastic, motivated and highly intelligent . Sean presented his PyCon 2007 Vim+python talk and Matt Boersma gave his wxPython and XRC talk.

Afterwards, I talked with Fernando Perez about IPython and its distributed computing branch, lead by Brian Granger and Benjamin Kelly (yet another physics guy/python coder). They are doing interesting things with Twisted and IPython, stuff that was brought up at the Twisted BoFs at PyCon this year (and in which radix and I took an interest). I look forward to attending the sprint in April and looking over Brian’s shoulder, getting up to speed on how they are using Twisted and what they want to be doing (possibly exploring the use of twisted.conch.insults in IPython).

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