At PyCon 2009, Steve Holden suggested building a site for people who wish to learn Python.

We already have BeginnersGuide, but it's buried in the wiki and is pretty dense text.

Possible names

• Python 101
• Starting Python

• PythonFromZero

We should probably avoid 'Learning Python', since that's an O'Reilly book title.

Should it target Python 2, 3 or both? Python 3 would be better, but would mean that initially it couldn't cover common third party libraries that haven't yet been ported to Python 3.

Content

The site would primarily link to resources, so its page architecture would mostly be pretty shallow.

• What's Python? -- like BeginnersGuide/Overview.

• Starting Points -- documentation, tutorials, downloads
• Tools -- links to IDEs, distributions, (hosting services?)
• Libraries -- PyPI; commonly-used libraries
• Books -- list of introductory books
• Videos -- link to relevant introductory tutorials
• The Community -- user groups, conferences

How about commissioning prominent authors to produce an article each on a range of subjects?

Maintenance

The pydotorg volunteers are stretched thinly enough that we should try to make this low-maintenance.

Can we make RSS-editable feeds available from the Python wiki and derive most of the site's content from them?