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