[marketing-python] New Python blog, marketing theory, and sales pitch

[Lucio Torre]

Stephan Deibel wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Lucio Torre wrote:
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>>>This list has been very quiet, which I think is just fine. I've
>>>floated a hypothesis that legitimizes our retirement:
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>>>http://pythonology.blogspot.com/
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>>http://blog.ianbicking.org/why-web-programming-matters-most.html
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>>I think this show that not everyone thinks that marketing is better left 
>>alone.
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>Sure, but I'd argue the real task is integrating the bits (like
>say SQLObject + Quixote + ...), documenting the heck of out the
>integrated package, writing tutorials, and packaging the whole
>thing so it's easy to pick up and easy to deploy your web apps.  
>Then market the heck out of it like Ruby on Rails is doing.
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>So, basically, it's product design and usability analysis more
>than marketing that is the problem right now.
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" Resolving Python's problems with web programming is *the* most 
important thing we can do to market Python."

"This is an incredible missed opportunity for Python. Most other 
marketing efforts underway for Python are (IMHO, of course) misplaced."

He doesnt seem to agree that what has to be done is not marketing :)

Lucio.