[python-advocacy] Marketing Python - An Idea Whose Time Has Come

[sdeibel]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Lucio Torre wrote:
> If the time for marketing python has come, the first step is to name a
> marketing director. Someone who can assign funds, who can talk with the guys
> upstairs, who will do what needs to be done to market python.
> 
> Does this guy exist? Is he a programmer? Maybe we can get a marketing
> professional like Michael suggested. Maybe some guy who works for a marketing
> agency building web sites and has already bet on python?
> 
> Who?

Nobody is officially in this role now.  Some people are dabbling 
in small parts of it (such as Tim Parkin and others working on 
python.org).

I think we need someone with both programming and some marketing 
knowledge.  Someone just in marketing wouldn't necessarily know 
what to do w/ Python without a lot of hand-holding.  Also, 
someone that hasn't done grass roots marketing wouldn't really 
work well either.

I think I said this before:  I really liked Jeff Rush's list.  
It seems like a good basis for a marketing director's activities.

- Stephan