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["AdvocacyAccomplishments"]

My prototype of the advocacy site has been fully ported over the advocacy.python.org and checked into svn.python.org. The site is up and down as I'm working on it, however I have established a clone of the site at advocacy.dfwpython.org. The clone will be the development site and advocacy.python.org will be the production site, with a subversion check-in/check-out cycle used to catch the production site up with development.

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Current Tasks:

 * Put candidate PyCon slogans onto poll site and let the community vote.
 * Participate in final selection of PyCon talks and timeslot assignment.
 * Add additional content to the advocacy site re answering common questions from the perspective of various audiences.
 * Get vector format of PyCon logo to the graphic designer.
 * Get my installation of Pyramid working and begin adding links from www.python.org to the advocacy site.

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Existing Challenges:

 * An Apache process on ximinez.python.org machine was leaking memory and swapping like crazy, slowing everything considerable. Sean R. changed Apache from a threading to a process model and the problem has not reoccurred.
 * I have found a huge amount of really great Python material scattered on sites and am trying to organize/link it into the advocacy site. A good situation to be in but a lot of reading and evaluating.

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Future Tasks:

 * Refine component for organizing advocacy files; collapse documents in different formats into one entry with format icons; provide an upload link into a quarantine area, provide for searching for tagged files re all slide presentations, all flyer handouts, etc.
 * Implement a component to establish a database of user groups,
   with an RSS feed and searchable by geographic location.
 * Ping pydotorg for site statistics, if they already exist.
 * Further restyling of us.pycon.org website
 * Install the python api for subversion, so I can directly manipulate repositories, as needed.
 * Figure out how to integrate Nabu with subversion, such that documents maintain an audit trail.
 * Finish processing the audio recordings from past !PyCons.
 * Encourage adoption of a standard presentation template for !PyCon.
 * For !PyCon:
    * rename Apache rewrite rule from "apps" to "apps06".
    * rename fastcgi start/stop scripts to have "06" in them.
    * rename the django/pycon directory to django/pycon06
    * update the sudo config for the renamed files.
    * help Doug chg password for the pycon06 DB.

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For active discussion on advocating for Python, please join the mailing list at [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy]

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CategoryAdvocacy

In mid-2006, the PSF agreed to hire JeffreyRush for full-time work on ["Advocacy"].


["AdvocacyAccomplishments"]

My prototype of the advocacy site has been fully ported over the advocacy.python.org and checked into svn.python.org. The site is up and down as I'm working on it, however I have established a clone of the site at advocacy.dfwpython.org. The clone will be the development site and advocacy.python.org will be the production site, with a subversion check-in/check-out cycle used to catch the production site up with development.


Current Tasks:

  • Put candidate PyCon slogans onto poll site and let the community vote.

  • Participate in final selection of PyCon talks and timeslot assignment.

  • Add additional content to the advocacy site re answering common questions from the perspective of various audiences.
  • Get vector format of PyCon logo to the graphic designer.

  • Get my installation of Pyramid working and begin adding links from www.python.org to the advocacy site.


Existing Challenges:

  • An Apache process on ximinez.python.org machine was leaking memory and swapping like crazy, slowing everything considerable. Sean R. changed Apache from a threading to a process model and the problem has not reoccurred.
  • I have found a huge amount of really great Python material scattered on sites and am trying to organize/link it into the advocacy site. A good situation to be in but a lot of reading and evaluating.


Future Tasks:

  • Refine component for organizing advocacy files; collapse documents in different formats into one entry with format icons; provide an upload link into a quarantine area, provide for searching for tagged files re all slide presentations, all flyer handouts, etc.
  • Implement a component to establish a database of user groups,
    • with an RSS feed and searchable by geographic location.
  • Ping pydotorg for site statistics, if they already exist.
  • Further restyling of us.pycon.org website
  • Install the python api for subversion, so I can directly manipulate repositories, as needed.
  • Figure out how to integrate Nabu with subversion, such that documents maintain an audit trail.
  • Finish processing the audio recordings from past PyCons.

  • Encourage adoption of a standard presentation template for PyCon.

  • For PyCon:

    • rename Apache rewrite rule from "apps" to "apps06".
    • rename fastcgi start/stop scripts to have "06" in them.
    • rename the django/pycon directory to django/pycon06
    • update the sudo config for the renamed files.
    • help Doug chg password for the pycon06 DB.


For active discussion on advocating for Python, please join the mailing list at [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy]


CategoryAdvocacy

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