[Python-Dev] Re: Re: 2.4 news reaches interesting places

[Keith Dart]

A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 03:32:03PM -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> 
>>Of course, the point here is not Perl-bashing. The point here is that
>>we should be able to "sell" Python better than we do now, even without
>>the need to resort to such poor measures. I'm sure the Python
>>community does have good & creative people that can write a good
>>"selling" FAQ for Python, emphasizing the main points of the language.
> 
> 
> No one disagrees that Python needs better marketing material.  At the
> last PyCon a group of people sat down in a pydotorg BoF and agreed
> that yes, we do need a management-friendly marketing site, and that we
> could put it on a separate hostname (something.python.org) so that the
> current www.python.org wouldn't have to be changed.
> 
> However, no one has actually sat down and written such a site, or even
> outlined it.  Let me encourage you to go ahead and do that.  You could
> draft the outline on a Wiki page, and then later figure out an
> attractive design and organization for a new site.


Whatever it looks like, it should probably run on Zope plus Plone. 8-) 
You know... eat your own dog food. 8-)

The kind folks over at Zettai! have provided some space for me. Perhaps 
they will be glad to host the main Python site, as well?



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