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| In mid-2006, the PSF agreed to hire JeffreyRush for full-time work on ["Advocacy"]. | 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 [[http://www.python.org/psf/grants/advocacy/revised-tasks.pdf|list of tasks to tackle]]. |
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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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| * Write up authoring guidelines, for web content, whitepapers and flyers, so as others contribute documentation, it is consistent in appearance and tone. * Add additional content to the advocacy site re answering common questions from the perspective of various audiences. * Get my installation of Pyramid working and begin adding links from www.python.org to the advocacy site. |
* 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 [[http://www.dfwpython.org:8000/|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. |
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| * I have been spending (too much) time on PyCon and need to refocus on other forms of advocacy. * 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. * 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. |
* 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? |
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| Future Tasks (in order of priority, from most urgent to least): * 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. * Finish processing the audio recordings from past !PyCons. * Figure out how to integrate Nabu with subversion, such that documents maintain an audit trail. * 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. * Further restyling of us.pycon.org website * Install the python api for subversion, so I can directly manipulate repositories, as needed. |
For active discussion on advocating the use of Python, please join the [[http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy|Advocacy mailing list]] and visit the [[http://advocacy.python.org/getinvolved|Advocacy - Get Involved!]] site. |
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| For active discussion on advocating the use of Python, please join the [http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy Advocacy mailing list] and visit the [http://advocacy.python.org/getinvolved Advocacy - Get Involved!] site. ---- CategoryAdvocacy |
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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.
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.