Kay Schluehr wrote: > The new Python site is incredibly boring. Sorry to say this. The old > site is/was amateurish but engaged. Now after ~15 years of existence > Pythons looks like it wants to be popular among directors of a german > job centers. It aims to do everything right but what could be said > worse? The text on the beginners page tries to argue with the > potential users in a pointless monologue. Who wants to read this text? > Who wants to be convinced that Python is *not* slow? "Do you stop > beating your wife?" And where is fun, irony and black humour? Why > Python? "Python in industry" - I see chimneys of 19th century > factories, proletarian heroes as well as futuristic hybrid robots > superseeding humanity. "Python community" - a dutch grand-family photo > from the beginning of the 20ths century - some ( or all? ) of the > members are accidentally looking like Guido, "Python in science" - > snake-like RNA strand. It need not be like this but I wonder about the > total lack of personality.
+1 This doesn't show the vibrance of to me somewhere like Europython. It doesn't show "Oh, and this is incredibly, cool, fun and useful". That to me is what both http://www.turbogears.org/ and http://www.rubyonrails.org/ do show. RonR has 4 very simple engaging points: * Get Excited * Get Started * Get Better * Get Involved Blindly copying something else is rarely IMO a good idea, but having NO personality simply turns people off. I'm not sure how to fix this, but I'd suspect starting with the visual humour style in python might be a good place to start... Put another way, I'd expect *python.com* [1] to look like the new site, and *python.org* to look like something that, well, represents some of the utter (very cool, very diverse) madness of the people involved with python. [1] NB: I **really** wouldn't go to python.com, I REALLY wasn't expecting that.... (REALLY) Michael. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://kamaelia.sourceforge.net/ British Broadcasting Corporation, Research and Development Kingswood Warren, Surrey KT20 6NP Totally my opinion and no-one elses and expecially not the views of the BBC (!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
