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

["AdvocacyAccomplishments"]

Current Tasks:

• Migrate over the prototype portal from advocacy.dfwpython.org to advocacy.python.org.
• Establish a subportal under advocacy.python.org for those who want to help promote Python.
• Gain access to the correct portion of Python SVN to hold my creations, both software and content.
• Make announcment re advocacy onto CLP and CLPA.

Future Tasks:

• Put out call for PyCon talk and tutorial ideas; post my suggestion list.

• 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