Doug Bromley wrote: > Python is in desperate need of marketing and I don't think its new site > will help it. > The Ruby community has a fanaticism we could learn from and its going > some way to 'converting' me. The community is alive, growing, shouting > from the roof tops while the Python community seems to sit in its ivory > towers conducting research and corporate development in > 'forward-thinking' companies such as Google. > OK, and this post will improve the situation how, exactly?
> I can see Ruby overtaking Python if we don't ALL do something about it. > Indeed. Hence http://www.squidoo.com/pythonology And your contribution is ... yet another post about how we all need to *do* something? On the other hand, you could just roll up your sleeves and start doing something :-) Your take on Python is likely unique: start telling people why *you* use it. regards Steve > On 9 Mar 2006 02:43:53 -0800, *Gerard Flanagan* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Steve Holden wrote: > > I've been thinking (and blogging) about python evangelism since > PyCon, > > as a result of which I created a squidoo lens: > > > > http://www.squidoo.com/pythonlogy > > > > Imagine my surprise at discovering that this has gone up in rank (by > > number of views) from # 442,000 or so to #153! Clearly there's some > > mileage in marketing Python, and I'd like to keep the buzz going > if it > > means more people will adopt the language. > > > > Any suggestions for improvement? > > > > '-nology' not '-nlogy' in the link. > > I like the 'What's Happening on Planet Python' section - I find the > planetpython.org <http://planetpython.org> gives too much of an > intro to the pages it links to. A > line or too, as in the lens site, would be preferable in my view. > Just a thought - would a similar section be suitable for 'python.org > <http://python.org>' > main page? > > Gerard By the way, the apparent increase in rank was somewhat bogus given that there appear to be fewer than 20,000 lenses at present :-) -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd www.holdenweb.com Love me, love my blog holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
