Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote: > > Tim the Taller (I presume he's taller; he's Dutch) and the other critics > > fail to realize is that no one reads "content". > > I disagree completely. I wouldn't touch a new language or technology > without first reading content. Neither would my boss, or any other > manager for that matter. This is not a watch, a garment, a toothpaste or > a burger. It is a software product, which needs a lot of content.
> The few words in captions should indeed be conveying the message. Which > brings up a good question - what message does python.org want to convey? > Is beta.python.org doing that? What puzzles me (and scares me) is that some people seem to think that anyone would go to python.org and expect a corporate fluff site. It's like when I asked a "suit" friend with long industry experience to check the python marketing list; his spontaneous reaction after reading some of the "we must do this because non-programmers think like this" discussion was one big WTF-are-these-guys-talking-about-why-do-they-hate-python ? The current site needs an incremental style overhaul, a less cluttered front page, and some signs that python.org's actually using modern Python tools for the site. And it needs to be more alive, both style-wise and content- wise. It does not need to treat its target audience (be it developers nor managers) as simpletons. Companies in the Python space don't do that, so why should python.org ? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
