There has been a bit of a lively discussion at BangPypers over our choice of drupal and also on the skill levels of our team member etc. Of course it is the inalienable right of anyone to make such comments, express their opinions and to tell us what we should be doing and take us to task when we say or do something that is incorrect. The feedback part is welcome.
Of course there is some confusion there as people have assumed that the site scipy.in is in drupal and on that mistaken assumption have given kind advice about how we may lose our credibility in that conference.
scipy.in is developed in django
fossee.in a site that represents a larger project namely python + scilab + .... is in drupal.
Let me try to explain what and why we did.
We are a group formed with the goal of aiding and enabling the use of python in the teaching of Engineering subjects, maths and science. It is part of a larger project to enable the use of open source tools (of which python is only one) in education.
All the python group members have been recruited with this goal and in our communications with them we have stressed that they will be contributing to this end, by

• designing and developing courses for students and faculty to learn python
• helping faculty modify existing courses by replacing examples that use commercial software with python based tools
• contributing to the documentation of open source python projects that we use in the tasks above
• contributing code to the python projects

Of course in the early days of the project there were and are many, many things to do. And these things related to the larger fossee projects not just to its python part. And all the team members have been 'volunteered' to do those.
Building a website was one such task. We had expected to hire a good web developer in the first batch but it did not happen. So some members volunteered to do that. I asked that we do a website in Plone as I have some plans for using Plone to build an app around the dissemination, marshalling and publishing of the content we will be producing.
Unfortunately in the time available to us, remember we had to get the courses designed, developed etc, we could not develop the site using plone. Of course it has nothing to do with the tool. Since PyCon was looming large I decided to let the site be done in Drupal. And we essentially did a hurried job without even clearly separating the python.fossee.in and the main fossee.in
Now to sum up:

• Was Drupal our first choice? No
• Are we committed to drupal? No
• Do we plan to change? Yes
• When? As soon as we get the python framework person in
• What tool? It will be what our resident expert to be hired is good in

Before I sign off

• We are hiring! So if you are good in django/zope/plone/tg/pylons/yopf do get in touch. pasokan { AT } fossee.in will reach me
• There was a comment of how Py is SciPy. Prabhu Ramachandran will be writing a detailed blog on the use of Python in Scientfic Computing