In mid-2006, the PSF agreed to hire JeffreyRush for full-time work on Advocacy. The contract was renewed for another six months starting March 15, 2007, along with a list of tasks to tackle.

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Current Tasks:

• Produce more "5-Minutes with Python" screencasts -- I've produced nine screencasts so far (not all 5-min though).
  • Python, Numbers and Array Processing
  • Python and Strings
  • Python and the Imaging Library
  • Python and Relational Databases
  • Python and Object Databases
  • Python and Scientific Computing
• Work on "Starting and Running a Successful Python User Group" paper, with select members of the Usergroup Support Committee who have volunteered to help.
• Hold another online meeting of the Usergroup Support Committee.

• Use the www.python.org mockup area to test some proposed changes, re a "spotlight" topic and a "get involved" feature, and get feedback from the community.

• Decide how to create a "spotlight" box on www.python.org, in consultation with the pydotorg group.
• Decide how to create a "get involved" box on www.python.org, in consultation with the pydotorg group.

Existing Challenges (most recent at top):

• crunching a talk down into only 5-minutes - it is surprisingly difficult
• figuring out why threads I start re advocacy and usergroups die out, lacking persistence.
• why no response pretty much at all to the repeated calls for podcasts and screencasts -- why is the community so averse to multimedia?

For active discussion on advocating the use of Python, please join the Advocacy mailing list and visit the Advocacy - Get Involved! site.

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