Who is www.python.org for? (was Re: New Python.org website ?)

In article <pan.2006.01.18.21.39.46.463754@bellsouth.net>,
JW <wilson1442@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>Agreed. The main page should be like a slick book cover. It should grab
>you and leave you wanting more. I think the beta page does that pretty
>well.
>
> [...]
>
>Of course, I'm a minimalist. I understand techy types want the details,
>but I don't doubt the details will be no more than two clicks away.

Which sort of gets to the heart of the argument: who is www.python.org
for?

I suggested one alternative a long time ago, but we never had the
bandwidth to do the necessary refactor:

The idea is that we make www.python.org even more minimal than the
current beta.python.org; it becomes a portal similar in simplicity to
google.com (with a bit more explanation). It would lead off to
subdomains such as business.python.org, tech.python.org, help.python.org,
and so on. That would make it easy for people to bookmark a specific
section that was appropriate for their needs.

If we can't do that, I think we should overall slant the focus toward the
primary users of python.org: people wanting to learn Python and people
doing real work in using Python. (I have mostly been keeping my mouth
shut during this discussion because I'm one of the webmaster@python.org
team and therefore should be contibuting labor to make this happen -- but
I haven't had the bandwidth.)

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