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

Vote here:

• Python 101 [+1 sdeibel -1 mfoord] (there is already a python101.com plus 101 means nothing to people outside the USA)
• Starting Python [+1 mfoord]
• Python from zero []
• Python from scratch []
• Python for beginners []

We should probably avoid 'Learning Python', since that's an O'Reilly book title. Likewise there is a book called 'Beginning Python'.

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?

Design

To avoid spending volunteer time on yet another site design, we should just re-use the existing python.org page design (though not necessarily the same site-building script and infrastructure.)

Maintenance

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

Can we make RSS feeds available by processing particular pages from the Python wiki, and then derive most of the new site's content from them?