[python-advocacy] How programming language webpages should be designed

[Carl Karsten]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009, Michael Foord wrote:
>>
>> Personally I doubt the news items are important to *new* visitors of the
>> Python.org site - who are the most important visitors. I would have no
>> objection to pushing the news items down in favour of a prominent code
>> example like that.
>
> This has been discussed before, and so far the sentiment among people
> actually maintaining the website is to consider existing Python users an
> important clientele.
>
> Some reasons why:
>
> * Encouraging them to join the community
> * Giving emphasis to the PSF (related to previous point)
> * Providing support (many people end up using Python e.g. as part of work)
> * Encouraging people to become core developers
>
> Not that I'm claiming that the existing site necessarily is doing the
> best job of meeting these goals, but I do think that changing the site in
> ways detrimental to these goals will get pushback.

I figured as much and it is fairly reasonable.

This subject can be re-visited every so often, but not too often.  or
something. a thread like this every 6 months doesn't sound
unreasonable, and it would only happen if there was a group that
strongly opposed the current sentiment.

Any idea when the last time it was discuessed?

-- 
Carl K