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Links for Promoting Python

Advocacy

(2) Python Advocacy HOW-TO

(3) Subversion from Within, Dana Moore's excellent talk from PyCon 2003.

(4) Guerrilla Pr Wired: Waging A Successful Publicity Campaign On-Line, Offline, And Everywhere In Between by Michael Levine, George Gendron. Best found by keyword search on Amazon.com (direct links tend to get stale and there are a number of Guerilla Marketing and Guerilla P.R. books to consider).

(5) Guy Kawasaki's Rules for Revolutionaries Part One and Part Two.

(6) A open source advocacy story that discusses the reality of Microsoft-dependency in business. Not specific to Python but contains useful points.

Executive Summaries

(2) High-level materials for potential users

(3) Reasons to use Python

(4) Python Glossary for the bewildered.

Language Overviews

(2) Présentation du langage Python (French)

(3) Wie Python arbeitet: Beschränkung aufs Wesentliche (German)

(4) Short lists of reasons to use Python

Who Uses Python

(2) The Python Business Forum's success stories page lists additional prominent users of Python.

(3) Other companies known to use Python

(4) Another users list

(5) Some example projects

(6) Quotes from prominent users

(7) More quotes on Python

Periodicals

(2) Pyzine is a print magazine about Python.

(3) Python Journal contains some material.

(4) Dr. Dobb's Journal's Python URL is a weekly news letter.

(5) comp.lang.python.announce (also available as a mailing list) carries Python-related release and event announcements.

(6) The Daily Python URL is also a good place for Python news.

(7) IBM Developer Works hosts a series called Charming Python and other Python-oriented articles often appear here (search the site with "Python").

Selected Articles

(2) Python -- Language of Choice for Enterprise Application Integration

(3) Python Power: Growing Respect for an Open Source Integration Tool

(4) The Major Leagues -- Another article on Python's emergence into the mainstream.

(5) Guide to Python introspection overviews the important capability of Python to inspect its own running code.

(6) The Year in Scripting Languages 2002

(7) Shipping the Prototype -- using scripting languages in production apps.

(8) A six part series all about Python: Part I (origins of Python), Part II (design goals), Part III (productivity), Part IV (contracts), Part V (strong vs. weak typing), and Part VI (design by community).

(9) A side-by-side comparison of Java and Python.

(10) Byte Magazine Article on Python 2.3.

(11) Python and the Tipping Point describes some of the good things about Python.

Selected Presentations

(2) List of lots more presentations

Press Releases

(2) Python 2.2.1 with quote from Industrial Light & Magic.

(3) Python 2.2.2 with quotes from Google and Zope Corporation.

(4) Python 2.2.3 with quote from Real Networks.

(5) Python 2.3 with quotes from Apple Computer, Inc, OSAF, Google, Industrial Light & Magic, and Nasa.

Books

(2) Search for "python" on amazon.com.

Videos

(2) Introducing Python -- Produced by a group of high school students, this is a possible foundation for future videos directed at executives and programmers. Currently not available in streaming form, it's a hefty 71MB download.

(3) An interview with Guido van Rossum

(4) Guido van Rossum: Computer Programming for Everyone!

Python Training

(2) Mark Lutz

(3) Phaseit, Inc

(4) GFU provides training in German

Community

(2) Python Meetups happen once a month in many cities around the world.

(3) Python.org is set up to host user group mailing lists as a service to users groups world-wide.

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