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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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| 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. |
* Establish a mailing list where leaders of the various user groups can meet and change ideas on strengthen their groups, and where those seeking to start a new user group can find ideas and get mentoring. * Establish a wiki page on which to collect ideas for and coordinate assignment of 5-minute screencasts on a variety of topics. * Get my installation of Pyramid working and create an area in which to collect 5-minute screencasts. |
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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. |
* learning the new Pyramid software |
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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. |
* getting the various screencast tools to play well and polish my presentation skills re screencasting |
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].
Current Tasks:
- Establish a mailing list where leaders of the various user groups can meet and change ideas on strengthen their groups, and where those seeking to start a new user group can find ideas and get mentoring.
- Establish a wiki page on which to collect ideas for and coordinate assignment of 5-minute screencasts on a variety of topics.
- Get my installation of Pyramid working and create an area in which to collect 5-minute screencasts.
Existing Challenges (most recent at top):
- learning the new Pyramid software
- getting the various screencast tools to play well and polish my presentation skills re screencasting
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.