Leeuw van der, Tim wrote: >I think that in general, I don't like the fact that links to >high-profile users are featured so prominently. That row of pictures >there looks good to me 'as such' but linking there to 'success stories' >feels, dunno, perhaps a bit cheesy to me. (That might be just my dutch >upbringing) >I would certainly want to see such links somewhere on the front page, >just not so prominently. > > Possibly so... however in my experience, selling python to people is made a lot easier by being able to say 'look these guys are using it'. This may not help sell it to programmers, but as a businessman trying to sell my programming services, it's exceptionally important.
>> >>btw do you have a problem with using nasa or astrazeneca as example >> >> >high > > >>profile users? >> >> > >As I said, I don't like them. We're not a commercial company trying to >promote itself to potential buyers. But that's too a large degree a >matter of taste. > > Well I'd have to disagree with yout on one point.. 'We' may not be a commercial company (when you talk about python as a singular unit) but as python developers, we should be in the process of trying to 'sell' python wherever we can. Because we aren't a commercial company, our only 'sales' channels are the website and the developers/consultants that use python. (I'm talking about selling in the terms of 'promoting' or trying to persuade someone that using python is a good thing). >I do actually think, though, that if the Python website *is* going to >feature such big names with such prominence, some sort of approval from >these organizations should be requested? That they don't mind being used >a a Python reference story? > > The approval is already there (see pythonology success stories). >About what could be there... Link to the even calender, or >recent/upcoming event.. That is one to stay, I think. >I think it would be good to have a link there too development >environments that can be used for Python: editors, debuggers, IDEs / IDE >extenstions, etc > > > It's difficult to summarise this in a single image. The XP image was intended as a 'catch all' for the development environment. A different image and title would probably achieve better results but coming up with one or two words to sumarise that list is quite difficult. >A third item could perhaps be a link to the Python Package Index -- >another thing that Python developers are likely to need. > > > The home page isn't intended to target existing python users.. and the home page photos are mostly targetted at the sort of people that respond well to photos. It's a dilemma that the home page has to serve two masters, however if we have a 'developer home page' which can be dedicated to development issues, news, planetpython links, package libraries etc, we would have a single page that developers could bookmark. The only alternative was to create a separate 'marketing python' website but it would just get ignored, especially by the people we really need to see the 'marketing' content. >These things are, of course, rather developer-centered (well, >Python-user centered...) >Being a software developer that uses Python, I wouldn't really know what >else to put there ;-) >But many people might have other things they wish to put in the centre >of atte > Yep, Thats probably why a dedicated page for developers would make more sense. Tim p.s. thanks for the comments btw.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
