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

[Jeff Rush]

hwg wrote:
> Recently, I was looking for a book to help my son learn programming.  I 
> could find nothing suitable, and, long story short, I've started on a 
> project to write a programming book for kids using Python (and pygame, 
> and PythonCard) as the language.  Long road ahead, don't know where it 
> will lead, but I'm going to give it a go.  I have ~100 pages done, and 
> early feedback from some peers who I respect (one teaches a kids 
> programming class) is, good, so I'm going to press on.

Please do.  I think it is a good idea.


> But the reason for this post is something else...
> 
> I was quite alarmed recently when I stumbled onto www.pyth_n.com (typo 
> intentional), and found a hard-core porn site!  Didn't anyone think over 
> the years to register this web address for something related to the 
> Python language?

It is a known issue and I doubt there is anything we can do about it.


> (Sorry if I'm rehashing an old issue - I looked through the archives and 
> didn't see it.  I don't know how long the site has been up, but I think 
> I remember going to that address not too long ago and it was not what it 
> is now.)

Doing a "whois", it belongs to a Canadian firm:

   Global Media Resources S.A
   1117 Queen Street West
   Toronto, Ontario CA

And it has been around for awhile:

   Record created on:        1994-06-22 00:00:00.0
   Database last updated on: 2005-03-22 08:39:20.53
   Domain Expires on:        2014-06-21 00:00:00.0

And based on the pre-paid domain registration, they plan to stick around.

-Jeff