[pydotorg-www] Introductions

[Steve Holden]

Ethan Schoonover wrote:
> Hello pydotorg,
> 
> I find myself here courtesy of Jesse's well-timed blog post. I'd like
> to give you a sense of my current orientation to the larger Python
> community and my background in order to contextualize my comments and
> any ongoing contribution I might be able to make to this process.
> 
> I have a dual technology and marketing (yes, I said the 'm' word)
> background. I've filled both roles for over a decade, including having
> running web production and marketing operations for Fortune 500
> clients in a multinational ad agency for much of my career.
> 
> Despite having run large marketing and web production operations, I
> live in vim, my UI of choice is a command line and I eat ones and
> zeros for breakfast.
> 
> I am also a complete Python noob, but I almost wasn't. That's why I'm
> here, posting to this list. I want to share my perspective as a recent
> 'convert' to Python, talk about the barriers to selection I faced in
> relation to the website and perhaps share some of my thoughts on
> improving things.
> 
> In terms of self education, a key factor in my selection of Python was
> the "State of the Python Community" video that Steve Holden gave at
> PyCon 2009. This got me over the hump of my initial "wow what a
> terrible website" reaction and made me realize that its current state
> wasn't indicative of the language or community itself.
> 
> I've begun to review Richard's site redevelopment proposal plan and I
> think he's got an absolutely solid foundation there.
> 
> I'll have further questions and comments, but for now I just wanted to
> wade gently into these waters and say hello.
> 
Thanks for taking the time to write, Ethan. It's terrific to know these
talks do some good. It doesn't always feel that way at the time ...

regards
 Steve
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