Hi, I'm Alex. I know this topic pops up every now and then, always going through more or less the same process, but I want to try a (hopefully) different approach.
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About seven years ago I learned python in my school and after finishing a two year course in programming with a handmade graphics module by my teacher that was really easy to learn but not very rich in performance, I wanted to get to the next level of game development. So my teacher told me about pygame and sent me the URL. And until today I still remember how I saw the website and I thought that it was just a little students project that couldn't really do much, as I needed like an eternity to find the download package I needed, not to speak about finding a good tutorial. Till then I red a lot more about pygame, I got to know the API and found tutorials, I got more experience in programming overall, but I had such a hard start, that it took me like 3 or 4 years to really like pygame and to find out that it is the framework-to-go-for if you want to do game development in python. And all that just because of a not up-to-date website? Well, of cause there were many different factors, but the website is to a project what the first impression is to a person: it is what stays in the peoples minds forever and is hard to change. -- By now Python and game-development are "just" a hobby while Web Design and branding is my main discipline. And because of all that I wanted to suggest a redesign of the pygame homepage, thinking that nobody ever thought of that. And just to get a bit into the heads and thoughts of pygame developers, how they'd love their website to be, I started reading. I red through a lot of mails in this list and on various sites in which various people discuss - about what is good and bad about the current and the old website - about features the website must and could have in the future - what framework(s) should be used by a python-community driven website - and, most important: If the old site should gradually be changed to fit the new needs, or rather be abandoned and replaced by a new one The more stuff I red, the more things I discovered: - A huge statement from a leading developer about what this site is all about (04/2009): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pygame-mirror-on-google-groups/hy8HUXKcgXY/kdhwVG6WiiAJ - a complete redesign that never got launched (11-2009): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pygame-mirror-on-google-groups/rUC5CrroA3U/TzWTWL5cFOUJ - another redesign with an API-doc lost by students (08-2015): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pygame-mirror-on-google-groups/1PzFkrIXBFA/cqa6PmEIAQAJ - how much people "hate" the new hifi version (08-2015): https://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame/issues/268/an-honest-opinion-about-the-new-site - the importance of the pygame history and that it should be present online (03-2016): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pygame-mirror-on-google-groups/1PzFkrIXBFA/Po7R5qaMHwAJ - quite emotional game-developers talking about how "broken" the website is (08-2016): http://pygame.org/project/3003/ - a feature whishlist for a new website: http://www.pygame.org/wiki/todo#Website As you can see, all these things are kinda spread over the whole internet, the oldest one (I mentioned) being over 7 years old and the website being under development for 11 years. I got another approach. More slowly. More conceptual (hopefully). I don't know if this will work and I don't know if this will result in a (new) better website, but I'd really like to try it with this awesome community. -- TL;DR: I'd like to collect visions for "the perfect pygame.org". If you want to contribute, you cann fill out this form: https://goo.gl/forms/VBg9dofx33Dyflcw1
