[pydotorg-www] project plan

[Steve Holden]

Aahz wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010, Steve Holden wrote:
>> Personally I think that you make some good points. We should be looking
>> more critically at the whole point of the web site, but it's obvious
>> that there's some disagreement in the Python community about this point
>> of view, Just look at the comments on this blog entry:
>>
>>   http://holdenweb.blogspot.com/2009/02/sell-sizzle-not-sausage.html
>>
>> I think a lot of geeks just don't like "marketing", not matter what the
>> purpose.
> 
> There's also the issue that even amongst those of us who believe that
> marketing is useful (you can hardly claim that I argue against marketing
> when I put in the effort to get a Python booth last OSCON), there is much
> disagreement about *who* we market to and *how* we do the marketing.

Sure. I don't ever remember suggesting you were a marketing luddite.

But the solution to that problem isn't "don't do marketing", it's
"identify the goals and then use metrics to adapt the methods until the
goals are being met".

regards
 Steve
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